Twitch of course reigns supreme with a record-setting 17bn hours viewed
Read More »Major music organisations pen open letter to Amazon, criticising Twitch for using unlicensed music
Twitch, and its owner Amazon, have received an open letter from major US music organisations, slamming Twitch for its recently-launched Soundtrack tool (via Variety). The letter was signed by multiple major US music organisations, including the RIAA, the Recording Academy, the National Music Publishers Association, the Music Managers Forum, the …
Read More »Twitch partners with Amazon music to bring on-demand listening to live streaming
Amazon Music and Twitch have announced a partnership to incorporate Twitch’s live streaming functionality into the Amazon Music app
Read More »Twitch Prime becomes Prime Gaming – Amazon rebrands monthly subscription service
From today, Amazon is rebranding their monthly gaming subscription service Twitch Prime under a new moniker, Prime Gaming.
Read More »Twitch sees 5 billion hours watched in Q2 2020 and Facebook Gaming grows 75%, as livestreaming boost from the pandemic continues
Twitch dominated the livestream industry in Q2 2020, with over 5 billion hours spent watching content on the platform.
Read More »Without Mixer is Microsoft’s entire gaming strategy weakened?
Microsoft teams up with Facebook Gaming, but how does that impact Xbox and xCloud and just who are the competition?
Read More »Crucible – can Amazon’s new team shooter fuse the power of Twitch and AWS?
Amazon Games Studios' Crucible launches tomorrow, looking to bring together the full might of the companies varied gaming assets
Read More »ESL and DreamHack enter streaming deal with Twitch
The agreement will see some esports tournaments organised by ESL and DreamHack live streamed to the service exclusively on Twitch in 2021 and 2022.
Read More »Games industry unites to launch COVID-19 awareness campaign, #PlayApartTogether
"It’s never been more critical to ensure people stay safely connected to one another"
Read More »Half-Life: Alyx records 43,000 concurrent users on launch day
"It's clear that the numbers are held back due to VR requirement"
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