Microsoft abruptly shutting down Mixer back in June has ended up as a boon for Amazon’s Twitch platform. That’s according to a new report from Stream Hatchet and Streamlabs, which… Read More
Twitch, the goliath of game streaming, is getting even more gigantic. Amazon’s streaming service registered more than 5 billion total hours watched in the second quarter, up 63% from the… Read More
Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive, based on technology that they had developed in their spare… Read More
Mixer is over. Microsoft is shuttering its video game live-streaming platform, four years after it launched Mixer to compete with Amazon’s Twitch and others. Microsoft will instead partner with one… Read More
Microsoft agreed to pay game streaming star Tyler “Ninja” Blevins between $20 million and $30 million per year to join its Mixer streaming platform and leave incumbent leader Twitch, according… Read More
Users watched more than twice as many hours on Mixer in 2019 as they did the year before, but despite landing one of the biggest names in video games, Microsoft’s… Read More
Amazon-owned Twitch still dominates the streaming space; Ninja’s move to Mixer hasn’t helped Microsoft with user growth; Fortnite viewership is dropping; and a non-gaming related category is gaining popularity. Those… Read More
Mixer has lost both of its co-founders as the Microsoft-owned streaming service looks to mount a challenge to the incumbent power in the market: Amazon’s Twitch. Matt Salsamendi, who co-founded… Read More
Microsoft is leveraging its Twitch competitor Mixer to drive more subscriptions for Xbox Game Pass. Starting today, Mixer Partners, the people who stream games for audiences, will get $3 for… Read More
Ninja is not happy. The video game streaming star posted a video Sunday accusing Amazon-owned Twitch of using his channel to advertise other streams, including pornography. Disgusted and so sorry.… Read More
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins said he wanted to “get back to his streaming roots” when he announced he was jumping from Amazon’s Twitch to Microsoft’s Mixer last week. Those roots are… Read More
It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft was spending billions of dollars to write off the major acquisition of Nokia, and retreat from the smartphone business. Since then, the tech giant… Read More
It’s a huge day for Microsoft’s Mixer streaming platform. Esports star Tyler Blevins, a.k.a. “Ninja,” announced Thursday that he will stream exclusively on Mixer. Blevins had previously streamed on Twitch,… Read More
It’s been more than two years since Microsoft bought the Seattle game-streaming service Beam, later rebranding it as Mixer, and now the tech giant is revealing a slate of updates that… Read More
There were slick passes, booming shots, big saves, and tough tackles. But this time, Seattle Sounders soccer stars took their competition from the pitch to the game room, duking it out… Read More
It’s been one year since Microsoft rebranded Beam, the game-streaming service it bought in 2016, as Mixer, and it is marking the anniversary with the roll out of a redesign… Read More
Microsoft is teaming up with Lightstream Studio to help people broadcasting games on Mixer improve the look of their streams. The new alliance lets streamers integrate their feed into Lightstream, where… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Microsoft is typically more low key at CES than fellow tech giant Amazon, and this year Google, but every year it opens its doors to the press… Read More
Mixer, Microsoft’s interactive game streaming service, today released a redesigned app for Android, with a counterpart on iOS “in the coming days.” The new app, detailed by Mixer in a… Read More
Minecraft is getting even more interactive thanks to a new tool from Mixer. The Microsoft-owned streaming platform today announced new features that let people watching Minecraft streams interact with the… Read More
Hold onto your caps! PAX West kicked off this morning in Seattle, and all eyes were on Nintendo’s Super Mario Odyssey, the highly anticipated new Mario game featuring Mario’s friendly… Read More
Mixer, the game streaming service that Microsoft acquired last year, unveiled mobile apps for iOS and Android that let players stream on the go and share experiences in their favorite mobile games.… Read More
Almost a year ago, Microsoft acquired the Seattle-based Beam game streaming service, a member of the TechStars Seattle 2016 class, co-founded and led by Matt Salsamendi, then 18 years old.… Read More
Apple hinted at the possibility of live screen broadcasting from the iPhone and iPad in July with the appearance of a non-functioning “start broadcast” button in the iOS 11 beta.… Read More
Nine months after Microsoft’s Xbox group acquired Beam, the game streaming service is getting a new name and a host of new features. The service will now be called Mixer,… Read More