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The company known as Justin.tv has been rebranded as Twitch Interactive. It comes as Twitch announces that it now boasts over one million active broadcasters and averages over 13 billion minutes watched per month from its 45m viewers. The Justin.tv brand, from which Twitch was originally a gaming offshoot, will …
Read More »Twitch spectators watched 12 billion minutes per month in 2013
2013 a 'tipping point' for game streaming, says broadcasting firm
Read More »Twitch adds 15m viewers in just six months
The rise of Twitch isn’t new to anyone in the games industry. But the latest numbers are simply astronomical. Gamers are now watching over 12 billion minutes of Twitch content every month – a figure that has doubled since 2012. That’s an average of 106 minutes every day. But it’s …
Read More »Xbox One Twitch integration further delayed
Livestreaming support on Xbox One is still months away, according to its provider Twitch. The video broadcasting platform’s Twitter account mentioned that the company hasn’t received word from Microsoft on when broadcasting directly on the Xbox One will be enabled. Twitch’s best guess is that the service is still "a …
Read More »Xbox One users must wait another few months for Twitch
Microsoft yet to inform Twitch when it will be ready to make the service available on Xbox Live
Read More »20% of Twitch game broadcasts coming from PS4
1.7 million PS4 gameplay videos aired through Twitch and Ustream to date
Read More »PS4 streaming a "game changer" for Twitch
PS4 owners made up for 20 per cent of all Twitch broadcasts from December 23rd to January 3rd, the streaming video service has announced. Twitch vice president of marketing Matthew DiPietro explains that the company was confident that integrating stream support with next-gen consoles would be a game changer.” "Based …
Read More »PS4 claims 10% of Twitch traffic
The Share button on PS4 has proven a big hit with users. Sony reckons that since the console’s US launch on November 15th 10 per cent of all broadcasts on streaming video site Twitch have come from PS4 systems. These broadcasts have lasted an average of 31 minutes each. In …
Read More »‘The industry must take notice of this new games media’
Eurogamer, CVG, Edge, IGN and GameSpot – the biggest names in games media, written and edited by the smartest thinkers and the wittiest commentators. These firms pride themselves on their critical analysis, their in-depth reviews and breaking news stories. But do they matter anymore? Clearly a certain generation of gamer …
Read More »Minecraft introduces one-click Twitch broadcasting
Twitch and Mojang have teamed up to introduce simple Twitch broadcasting to the PC version of the smash-hit game. Users who wish to do so must visit their Mojang account page and link a Twitch account to their profile. Then it merely needs to be activated in the game’s options …
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