Tag Archives: Twitch

Many assumed that the online multiplayer in Telltale’s upcoming Batman game would be perfect for streaming services like Twitch, but developer Telltale insists this isn’t the case. The firm has made an update to its blog post announcing the feature, saying that due to the high level of latency introduced …

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 …

Radiator 2, a collection of three gay-themed titles that was recently released on Steam, has been banned from streaming site Twitch. Creator Robert Yang is used to has creations being blocked by the video network, but has expressed his surprise that these relatively old titles have suddenly been hit following …

The streaming of gambling sites that use Steam OpenID API has been banned by Twitch. The move follows Valve’s first statement on the subject yesterday, in which it vowed to crack down on the increasingly controversial practise. Valve specifically notes that using ‘the OpenID API and making the same web …

Mid-tier broadcasters with between 33 and 3,333 simultaneous viewers most valuable to devs

The Esports Championship Series is set to return for its second season in October, with open qualifiers for the league taking place next month. The competition, which is a partnership between FACEIT and Twitch, just wrapped up its first season at Wembley Arena, but plans for the next event have …

Having played numerous Pokmon games,Heathstone, Punch Club and even Dark Souls, Twitch is now playing Pokmon Go. This sees viewers providing text-based inputs in the stream’s chat which are then translated into the game. The developers have also ‘spoofed’ the game’s location to make it think it’s in New York’s …

Earlier today the eSports Integrity Coalition was announced, which aims to end match fixing, doping and cheating in general in the eSports world. ESIC is a non profit association that has been formed to try and prevent cheating in eSports, and more specifically any kind of cheating or fraud that …

Cheering is the latest way to financially support your favourite Twitch streamers, by adding premium emotes to your chat messages. Bits emotes can be purchased in bundles of 100, 500,1500, 5000, 10000 and 25000, with 100 costing $1.40. The bigger bundle you purchase the bigger discount you get, so 25,000 …

Latest release includes Twitch chat integration, director mode and mixed reality support