Have you ever played a game for hours or days, only to find a technique, weapon or option tucked away in a labyrinthine menu that radically changes how you play the game, or makes it instantly easier? It can be a welcome feeling, realizing that a difficult task is now made trivial. But it can be equally infuriating, knowing that the hours behind you have been ground out doing unnecessary work.

Since the earliest days of the Overwatch League, Blizzard has had a tough time getting fans, and even pro players, to behave themselves in Twitch chat. Whether it was spamming emotes or simply posting offensive messages, every week of the Overwatch League meant more and more bans. However, as we head into the league’s second season, Blizzard is trying combat Twitch chat toxicity through a new program that it will first test during Overwatch Contenders.

Twitch gaming viewership In 2018 saw a significant increase as compared to 2017 according to statistics compiled by Esports Observer. Fortnite player Tyler “Ninja” Blevins took the lead with over 226 million hours watched between 1 January - 27 December 2018. With 2019 around the corner Fortnite has no signs of slowing down and with regular in-game updates, be sure to see even more streamer viewership numbers rise as the game continues to grow. 

Balance issues have been a recurring problem in For Honor. Between newer Heroes reducing the viability of the original cast and certain Heroes having far more options than others, it’s an ongoing discussion. With the release of Marching Fire, this has only increased. The community has noticed the gap between older Heroes and the new expansion Heroes. In addition, older Heroes such as Lawbringer and Warlord are drawing Ubisoft ire for not receiving reworks.

Twitch has clarified their stance on the streaming of “adult” themed games, days before a hugely controversial title is about to be released. Previously, Twitch has gone through on a case by case basis to ban overly “mature” games from being streamed, but now ahead of the launch of Hatred, they’ve updated [...]

Now you can send private chat messages without leaving your current chat. Whisper to friends, followers, and subscribers to chat privately one-on-one across all of Twitch. Your whisper will show up in-line with the rest of chat on web and mobile apps no matter what channel you’re on.

Over the last several months, we’ve been working more and more with our friends in the entertainment world—specifically those in the television and music industries—to provide new content experiences on Twitch. For example, we partnered with Ultra, one of the biggest Electronic Music festivals in the world, to bring their live concerts straight to Twitch. …

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Many people have experienced harassment or bullying online. However, the victims of such harassment are disproportionately women.

UPDATE:  We've had tremendous response from this post and I realize that some are still very uncomfortable with T&A, even though it is relevant. 

Twitch’s video player is getting HTML5 controls. The ultimate goal is to ditch Flash entirely.

"Talking Esports" is the work of more than 8 years in total. The book covers almost every aspect of esports broadcasting whether you want to be a home broadcaster, a professional caster at live events or even a show host.

“Some gaming communities really lack Respect. People barely have their foot in the door & think the world owes them everything. Earn It.”

Shoutcaster ben je niet zomaar. Boudewijn ging op onderzoek uit om te checken wat je moet kunnen voor dit bijzondere beroep.

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Tune in to Twitch this Thursday to watch community streamers battle it out during the second Desert Borderlands Stress Test!

Professional gaming becomes more sophisticated as it becomes more lucrative and now has house chefs and full-time coaches.

Let's Play videos are more popular than ever, however, for many creators what's legally ok and what isn't is more unclear than ever. Come learn the basics of copyright and trademark law that you need to know to keep your videos and streams up.

This piece was created with contribution from the Hurrah, the world’s leading eSports advertising agency. 

Gamoloco provides viewership data for gaming live streams hosted on major dedicated platforms such as Twitch.tv, Hitbox.tv, Azubu.tv, Dailymotion.com and Gaminglive.tv. (more on platforms in our FAQ)

StreamPro.io is a web-based platform that allows Twitch streamers to customize their broadcasts using a drag and drop editor with full control of alerts, text labels, animations, and graphics. You can your broadcast overlay management into one place by integrating with popular services to provide Twitch alerts

The Best Show in the Universe: Why watch other people play games.

Perhaps there’s nothing more annoying than going in for the kill to suddenly be “pooped on” by a Windows 10 automatic installation taking out your computer mid-stream to your 130,000 or so followers. After deciding to try and ruin advertise during the weather by attempting to automatically install midway through a forecast, Windows 10 is starting to wreak havoc with gamers. Ex-professional Counter Strike player turned full-time streamer Erik Flom was...

The gamer-watching platform says it needs to protect a "fair playing field."

You have a lot of options when it comes to broadcasting live video to the Internet. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others want your content in their ecosystems. But you typically have to choose one because of bandwidth and processing limitations -- unless you use Restream.io.

It’s Morphin time for Twitch: The Amazon-owned game broadcasting company will stream virtually every episode of Saban Brands’s “Power Rangers” TV series, spanning 23 seasons and 831 episodes, starting next week. The 17-day marathon begins March 14 at 11 a.m. PT and concludes March 30, live-streamed at Twitch.tv/TwitchPresents, the new home for the service’s programmatic TV marathons. It’s timed to coincide with the March 24 release of “Saban’s Power Rangers” live-action film from Lionsgate and Saban Brands.

Video game streaming site Twitch will soon begin selling PC games and other in-game content on its site, the company says.

Twitch is now rolling out support for 1080p/60fps streams, the platform announced on its blog. To stream at 1080p/60 you're going to need to be able to sustain a bitrate up towards 6 megabits, though quality will depend on the game being streamed. The previous 3.5 megabit ingest bitrate limit has been lifted. Furthermore, viewers will also have lots more quality options available to them, ensuring they get the best viewing experience possible.

Twitch, the popular game-streaming site owned by Amazon, just inked a deal with one of the most popular game developers to broadcast a host of game..

In many ways, Geisha Monroe and Mandy Morbid are typical Twitch streamers—they’re gamers who share their play experiences with an online following. They cosplay, they collect game-related memorabilia, they tweet Overwatch memes. And like most streamers, Twitch isn’t their job. But what does pay their bills makes them unusual among Twitch streamers: they’re cam performers.

For the stars of the streaming service Twitch, success means working around the clock.

Scroll through the In Real Life (IRL) section of streaming site Twitch and you could be forgiven for thinking, now and then, that you have landed on a camgirl site. Scattered among the artists, cooks and professional eaters are a growing band of young women wearing revealing clothing while they game. Some go further and entertain fans by dancing or by doing a series of suggestive exercises, like squats, to tempt people to subscribe to their channel or to hand over Twitch's micro-currency - bits.

The game streaming site has been criticised for tolerating a growing number of 'sexual streamers'.