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Twitch Studios has announced the premiere date for their streaming game show Stream On. Stream On is a live interactive game show that lets viewers discover and influence the future of up-and-coming streamers by participating directly in the program So it's something like an American Idol for streaming. The show will premiere March 8th at 3 p.m[...]

In celebration of Women's History Month this March, Twitch has teamed up with the 1,000 Dreams Fund to launch the Streams for Dreams program 1,000 Dreams Fund is an American non-profit organization that provides micro-grants to young women in the United States Their charity initiative with Twitch is designed to support women who are pursuing[...]

If you've enjoyed watching the Overwatch League matches, you have even more reason to tune in, because viewers will now receive in-game benefits for watching the League. Blizzard has announced that the Overwatch League and Twitch are teaming up again, and starting today viewers will be able to earn skins, emotes, and team-themed items, as well as League[...]

Streamer James "PhantomL0rd" Varga, is suing Twitch after his account was suspended in July of 2016 during the CS:GO gambling controversy. According to PC Gamer, Varga is now suing Twitch for suspending his account and terminating his contract without providing sufficient notice, or a reason for his suspension and subsequent ban. Varga maintains that it was only in January 2017, [...]

A couple weeks ago we told you about Twitch's new Community Guidelines that would be implemented in an effort to eliminate toxic behavior in their chat and the community at large Over the weekend, Twitch made a quick announcement on their Twitter that those guidelines would be held off from being implemented for a few[...]

This Saturday, February 24th, Crunchyroll will be presenting their own Anime Awards live on Twitch to honor achievements in the genre over the course of 2017 But today, the company announced with Twitch a way to make the experience interactive beyond their site According to a press release this morning, the company will allow streamers to[...]

The Game Grumps have launched a live charity stream on Twitch today for a very noble cause, as the group will be raising funds for the Crisis Text Line from 12-6 p.m PST The group will spend all six hours playing apocalyptic games like Mad Max, Half-Life 2, Fallout, and the Junkertown portion of Overwatch, along with special[...]

Twitch is introducing a brand-new tool for chat rooms in their service called "Rooms", which is designed to help better reach the community that every streamer cultivates as they grow their audience The way Rooms works is that you'll be able to create specific chat rooms within your chat room for people to hang out[...]

In anticipation of the Devil May Cry HD Collection to be released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, Capcom has decided to give fans of the series an early present, provided they have Twitch Prime Starting on February 27th, the original Devil May Cry will be free to play on Twitch Prime for subscribers[...]

If you've been a contributing member of Twitch and have one of those compassionate hearts that donates to charity streams and keeps your favorite broadcaster going, Twitch is about to reward you with something that others won't be able to deny The social streaming service has introduced two new additions to the to recognize supportive viewers in[...]

Justin Timberlake's comparably tame Super Bowl halftime show, Chrysler's questionable decision to use MLK in an ad, what the Game of Thrones creators' new Star Wars project could mean for HBO's Confederate, and more from the realm of TV this week!

The Twitch Partner was dropped from his Fortnite eSports team, HavoK, after reports of his suicide-baiting comments made headlines. Jordan "Scubby" Selleck (JScubby on Twitch) said on a stream that if he knew someone was suicidal, "I would dare them to do it, and then I would never talk to them again." Late last night, Scubby's streams were dropped[...]

Twitch partnered streamer and professional Fortnite player JScubby has admitted on one of his streams admitting that he has dared suicidal friends to commit suicide prior to cutting ties with them In the same stream, he also admits to bellieving that anxiety is fake JScubby's account of his own behavior came as a response to a question[...]

This week, Twitch sent out a notice to all of their members and streamers that their Community Guidelines and the Terms Of Service have gotten an update, specifically targeting harassing and toxic behavior The company has been looking at its streamers for bad content and in the wake of hearing stories from an Overwatch League[...]

According to a new article in The Information, Google may be on the verge of launching their own social streaming service like Twitch, focused specifically on gaming, known only at the moment as "Yeti" According to anonymous sources close to the information, Google is looking heavily into launching their own subscription-based game streaming service that would[...]

To mark all of the success that Twitch has seen over 2017, the social streaming service decided to create a webcomic to help perfectly illustrate what the company has gone through and what their fans mean to them Below is a formal introduction sent out with the comics, which you can check out here[...]

DisRespect as his return to Twitch caused their system to crash That's a feat that not even many of the major esports league can lay claim to Just to catch you up on a few things, the good Dr decided to take some time away from the social streaming service after ti had come out[...]

Caffeine is a brand new social streaming service that has finally graduated from being in beta and is now a fully-functional broadcasting site, much in the same vein of how Twitch operates The big differences that the company cites about themselves are that the delay in chat and livestreaming has been cut down significantly, making[...]

This will put them squarely as a competitor for Twitch and Youtube Gaming. Detailed in a blog post, the Gaming Creators pilot program plans to leverage Facebook's existing technology with a lot of what its competitors already do Of special note is that Facebook wants to use the Oculus as one of its streaming platforms, suggesting[...]

Twitch just set up their next marathon kicking off tonight as the social stream service will present a 10-day event featuring multiple professional wrestling companies and their content The organizations who will be contributing content will be Impact Wrestling, House Of Hardcore, Hoodslam, Shout! Factory (showing various programs), and Lucha Libre AAA The last of which[...]

You can look forward to seeing more ELEAGUE games being streamed on Twitch as the social streaming service just penned a new deal with the league and Turner to be their official streaming service for tournaments and competitions The three-year deal will make Twitch the exclusive third-party digital destination for all ELEAGUE-related games, starting with The ELEAGUE[...]

In a week where they already have a few impressive announcements and news, Twitch has released a brand new program called Video Producer, which is essentially a suite of tools for streamers and broadcasters to use to help improve their content on the social streaming platform Below are some of the details of what you'll[...]

Big news this morning out of Twitch as the company has signed a multi-year partnership with Disney Digital Network (formerly Maker Studios) to bring exclusive content to the social streaming service from four of their biggest content creators Those four are: Jacksepticeye, LuzuGames, Markiplier, and Strawburry17 That is major news considering that both Jack and Mark have made[...]

The lesson to be learned from today's story is that if you're going to spam Twitch, you better be ready to face the consequences beyond banning The CBC is reporting that a British Columbia resident known as Brandan Lukus Apple has been charged with "mischief in relation to computer data" and has been slapped with[...]

It's been reported that Twitch, who recently announced an exclusivity deal for the Overwatch League, paid a whole bunch of money for the privilege. The Overwatch League is kicking off today, and there is a lot riding on it It's almost certainly one of the most ambitious and expensive esports ventures ever, and a lot of very[...]

The Overwatch League flew past expectations on its opening night, racking up a massive 415k viewers at its peak viewing times on Twitch. The league kicked off last night, and not that many people knew how it was going to go It was all pretty untested, and even though it's was the start of one of[...]

It appears as if Twitch and Blizzard are banking on the idea that the Overwatch League is going to be around for more than just a minute Both companies announced this morning that they have signed a multi-year media partnership, "ensuring that every match of the world's first major global city-based esports league will be readily[...]

Today, Twitch announced the launch of a brand-new game show coming to their weekly feed of live programming called Stream On The show will debut in March 2018 and will feature streamers who have become partnered with the company, but need just a little extra boost to make their channel come alive The details of what[...]

Yesterday, the Twitch star known as DrDisRespect went onto his Twitch stream to make two announcements that will probably change what he does with his stream moving forward The first is that he will be taking a break from Twitch for a while, and the second is that he has apparently cheated on his wife[...]

This morning, Twitch announced a new partnership with the NBA G League to stream games live during the 2017-2018, with the games being available on-demand after the initial broadcast The partnership is the brand's attempt to get traditional modern sports in on the action that Twitch is provoding by incorporating Twitch's interface and tools with[...]