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Twitch has launched its new Communities feature, an open beta directory that allows creators and viewers to discover and share content based on their interests more easily. The service, which starts today, will supplement Twitch’s existing directory, but will also allow users to organise their profiles into interest or activity-based …

US indie games publisher Versus Evil has announced its very first charity streaming event. Dubbed the Versus Evil Charity Clash, streamers will be representing one of four main charities and will go head to head with other players in Tim Conkling’s upcoming turn-based strategy game, Antihero. The event will take …

Azubu has announced that it has acquired rival streaming platform Hitbox.  The deal, which was reported by the LA Times, is apparently worth “tens of millions of dollars in cash,” and sees Hitbox merge into the Azubu company.  In early 2017 the company will launch a new service that combined …

League of Legends developer Riot Games and MLB Advanced Media’s BAMTech have entered into an exclusive monetisation and commercialisation partnership worth at least $50m per year. Yahoo reports that the deal will run until 2023 and applies globally. Riot’s co-head of eSports and head of merchandising Jarred Kennedy has assured …

Twitch has announced a new section called IRL that allows streamers to broadcast non gaming related content.  Until now Twitch has only allowed gaming or creative content, although the introduction of the food section and the many Bob Ross marathons made this rule a little pointless. Now that rule has …

Twitch has today launched a brand new content category called IRL. Designed to enable Twitch creators to share content from their everyday lives in addition to traditional gameplay videos, Twitch hopes IRL will encourage users to interact with their fans more closely and create tighter-knit communities. Twitch says the category …

Won't let you get inside the game just yet

Microsoft was ready to announce and release a streaming Xbox device intended to launch shortly after E3. That’s the claim in a new report from Windows Central. Shortly before E3 this year reports suggested that Microsoft would announce three devices at the trade event – a slim Xbox One, a …

Daryl Koh "iceiceice" Pei Xiang, captain of the Faceless Dota 2 team, has said that streaming is destroying players’ careers in China. In an interview with Cnet iceiceice was asked about the lucrative streaming contacts that players can earn in China, and he had some controversial views on the subject. …

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