For people who don’t play or watch video games, it can be difficult to conceptualize just how powerful Twitch is. But the streaming site has an average 1.7 million broadcasters streaming… Read More
ELeague, the competitive gaming venture from Turner Sports and WME | IMG has reached a multi-year deal with the Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch to distribute live event coverage and on-demand content.… Read More
If you’re a Pinterest prodigy, Twitch talent, or just someone who’d like to chat about your favorite apps, then we want to hear from you. We’re looking for tech-savvy teens and… Read More
“Life itself is the proper binge,” Julia Child famously said. Little did she know that 50 years later, viewers would get to binge on her iconic cooking show in an… Read More
Amazon is launching its first daily live show, a fashion and beauty program called “Style Code Live,” combining its e-commerce platform with its video streaming technology in a new bid… Read More
Hyper Rabbit Power Go! (Hyper RPG!) is a new Redmond, Wash.-based Twitch channel debuting today, which will live stream shows about gamers, video games role-playing games and board games, along with behind-the-scenes game… Read More
Over the past three years, video game streaming has exploded into a young but powerful industry. Tech giants competed over Twitch before Amazon swooped up the company for $970 million and… Read More
After nearly an hour of grueling trial and error between the top two Omeganauts during this year’s PAX Prime Omegathon, Ryan “Lysander” Anderson finally beat the final round. No, it wasn’t Dark Souls… Read More
The twelfth annual PAX Prime gaming convention drew to a close Monday night in Seattle with the top two Omeganauts “Mighty” (Charles Middleton) and “Lysander” (Ryan Anderson) racing to be the… Read More
The newly competitive game-streaming war is on full display here at the PAX Prime game convention in Seattle this morning — with the veteran of the business, Twitch, positioned a… Read More
The game streaming platform wars are here. The videogame industry is often all about the race between Xbox and Sony. But today’s modern day tech war might just be between Google and Amazon. After months… Read More
YouTube may be rolling out its own video game-streaming platform as soon as tomorrow to compete against market-leading Twitch, which Amazon bought for nearly a $1 billion last year. As previously… Read More
Amazon may not have had a huge presence at E3, the annual videogame conference in Los Angeles, but its video game streaming arm could be found everywhere. Twitch announced today that… Read More
After losing Twitch to Amazon last year, YouTube is rolling out its own video game-streaming platform. The new site, YouTube Gaming, will allow users to stream live gameplay and record it straight… Read More
A now-deleted job posting from Amazon appears to have spilled the beans on a new video unit for the company. The listing was calling for a producer for a daily live show. “Amazon… Read More
Amazon’s early attempts at making epic video games have been underwhelming, but the company is gearing up for a new push — announcing in a job post that it’s “building a team of… Read More
Users of Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streaming site, will have to reset their passwords after the service suffered a security breach, the company revealed today. A post to the… Read More
Amazon’s video platform Twitch will get a boost Monday with Discovery’s new gaming-focused platform “Super Panic Frenzy.” Also launching on YouTube, the live-streaming video show will feature YouTube stars Phil DeFranco, Steven… Read More
Twitch, the game streaming and social video company acquired by Amazon last year for $1 billion, was teasing a big announcement on its Twitch Weekly show today, and after a dramatic buildup, it… Read More
Video game streaming is shaping up to be big business. Twitch announced today that the service saw 100 million unique viewers in December, up from 45 million monthly unique viewers… Read More
Twitch launched a pair of music-centric initiatives today which make its streaming service more attractive to recording artists. The first, Twitch Music Library, gives streamers access to a catalog of… Read More
On this week’s GeekWire radio show, we’re counting down our top 10 picks from our most popular stories of the year. For this show, we analyzed the top posts of 2014 on GeekWire,… Read More
Steve Ballmer isn’t the only tech CEO with a major interest in a competitive sports franchise anymore. Thanks to a new acquisition, Jeff Bezos now has a stake in two… Read More
The Twitch game-streaming app on Xbox One underwent a mini-makeover today with an array of new features now available for users. The update, which is the first since Twitch was acquired… Read More
Valve announced today that users of its Steam gaming platform will now be able to easily stream their game content to their friends using tools built by the Bellevue-based company.… Read More
Videogames are exciting, but please folks, keep your clothes on! That’s the gist of a new rule Twitch has implemented roughly a month after Amazon completed its nearly $1 billion acquisition… Read More
Xbox One owners can now participate in some of the largest online gaming competitions globally from the comfort of their living room. Today, Microsoft announced the ESL Gaming app for the Xbox One.… Read More
Amazon.com now officially owns Twitch, as the Seattle online giant noted the completed acquisition today in an SEC filing. Amazon announced its $970 million acquisition of the game-streaming site — the company’s biggest in… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – When asked about Amazon’s $970 million acquisition of Twitch, Mike Frazzini, the Vice President of Amazon Game Studios, called out the game-streaming startup’s culture as a key… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – When the rumor mill heated up about a potential acquisition of online video game streaming website Twitch, Google was the most-discussed suitor. But according to company CEO… Read More
