Tag: Twitch
Twitch CEO expects phone-style upgrade cycles for home consoles
Emmet Smear, the CEO of game streaming service Twitch has been speculating on the future of the home games console - and has come up with a rather interesting prediction of where consoles could be going in the future. Speaking to The Guardian, Smear suggests consoles could go the way of phones - with new…
Twitch adds a music library to avoid rights issues
Game streaming service Twitch has added a section to its website called "Twitch Music Library", featuring hundreds of royalty free tracks on Spotify and Soundcloud that streamers can use to make their streams a little bit more bearable. Whilst it may seem strange for a game streaming service to get into music, it actually makes…
The Digest: Steam takes on Twitch… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Steam Broadcasting takes on Twitch with game streams | The BBC "Steam - the popular PC video gaming platform - is adding the ability to stream gameplay so that others can watch online. The move presents a challenge to Twitch, which is built around a similar service, and was acquired by Amazon for…
Destiny is the most-watched game on Twitch so far in 2014
Destiny has received mixed early reviews, but it has become 2014's most-viewed console game on the Twitch streaming service. In its first week on sale, Destiny Twitch streams have been viewed nearly 20 million times, with fans watching almost 240 million minutes of gameplay. "To date, Destiny is the biggest console game launch of the…
Twitch malware can drain users’ Steam accounts
Malware that can spread through Twitch’s chat feature will try to bleed your Steam account dry, according to security software maker F-Secure. The malware originates from an automated account which, according to F-Secure, "bombards channels and invites viewers to participate in a weekly raffle for a chance to win things such as 'Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'…
5 reasons why Amazon might have bought Twitch
Big news overnight from Amazon, which has bought streaming service Twitch for a cool $970m. Yes - that's right - Amazon. Twitch had multiple suitors, but it seems that in the end Twitch went for the one we least expected. (We were all expecting Google). So why did it happen? For Twitch, it appears that…
WATCH: Fish Plays Pokemon
In recent days TwitchPlaysPokemon reached another milestone: the hive-mind of online players successfully finished Pokemon X for 3DS, meaning that collectively all of the major handheld titles have been beaten. So now the next logical thing is underway: seeing if a fish can do it too. "Fish Plays Pokemon" is exactly what it sounds like,…
Twitch adds audio recognition just days after Google deal
Video game streaming site Twitch has announced the introduction of "Audio Recognition" to on demand videos on the website - putting an end to the musical free-for-all that users were used to. The change means that Twitch's on-demand videos will work like YouTube: with any unlicensed music that is picked up through the system being…
TwitchPlaysPokemon is still going – and is on to Pokemon X for 3DS
Remember TwitchPlaysPokemon? It took the world by storm last February as thousands of players around the world took to Twitch to take control of Game Boy classic Pokemon. It turns out that it is still going, and is even more sophisticated. The premise is still the same: Players enter into the chat window the controls…
5 reasons why Google/YouTube has bought Twitch (Updated)
Big news to wake up to this morning: apparently Google are on the verge of buying game live-streaming service Twitch for a cool one billion dollars. The reports come from Hollywood trade magazine Variety, who report that it is basically…
