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After what feels like a long period of pretty significant investment, we finally know what the first big projects to emerge from Amazon Game Studio will look like. Leading the lineup is Breakaway, an eSports orientated 4×4 team sports brawler” which seems tailor made to try and make the most …
Read More »Twitch Plays Chess beats a Grandmaster
And you thought Twitch Plays beating Dark Souls was impressive? As part of the promotional drive for Pure Chess, the hive mind of Twitch was pitted against British grandmaster Simon Williams, Rock Paper Shotgun reports. No contest, you’d think? Well, Williams won the first two games, the second of which …
Read More »Sony explains PS4 Pro’s 4K Blu-ray omission, says 4K Netflix streaming preferred
The PS4 Pro does not include a 4K UHD player because Sony believes that the market is moving away from physical media. That’s according to SIE boss Andrew House, who told The Guardian that 4K streaming was a more important feature. Our feeling is that while physical media continues to …
Read More »YouTubers in uproar as site penalises edgy content
Video streaming giant YouTube has once again infuriated a number of its biggest stars by withholding advertising revenue. The exact causes of this most recent uproar remain a little ambiguous. A number of names have exploded on social media after being informed by YouTube that advertising had been blocked on …
Read More »Ex-Shinra execs target devs with interactive streaming platform Genvid
Tools provider that allows creators to implement multiple in-game cameras and interactive elements raises $1.5 million in funding
Read More »Twitch to acquire Curse
Streaming platform Twitch has announced its intention to acquire online tech company Curse. Curse was founded ten years ago and provides a number of services such as game-specific online community tools, a PC mod manager and secure VOIP. In all it attracts around 30m users per month across its network. …
Read More »Twitch’s battle to remain the top dog of eSports streaming
In the face of growing competition, Twitch is still the streaming space’s market leader and this is helped by its pro-gaming content. We speak to eSports boss Nick Allen about staying at the top How would assess 2016 so far for Twitch? With the eSports partnerships we’ve entered into this …
Read More »Telltale’s Crowd Play ‘unsuitable for Twitch’
Episodic games dev clarifies limitations for new multiplayer technology
Read More »Gem Box: the micro-console that wants to be the ‘Netflix for games’
French company Emtec wants to succeed where nearly everybody else has failed. On August 18th, the firm will launch Gem Box in the US, UK and France, before releasing in other European territories later this year. This Android micro-console, which comes with its own controller, gives access to a large …
Read More »Counter Strike gambling streamer PhantomL0rd banned from Twitch
Less than a week after Twitch said it would take action against the streaming of Counter Strike gambling on its network, one leading streamer has been banned. Kotaku reports that PhantomL0rd’s channel has been pulled. It now simply carries the message: The community has closed this channel due to terms …
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