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Twitch is giving us an interesting live-voting extension to streams of The Game Awards this year. By leveraging a custom overlay and enabling streamers to co-stream the event, different communities will be able to make predictions of which nominees should win each category The communities that are most accurate will be featured on a live leaderboard[...]

Battle Cars Live will be aired on Twitch tomorrow (December 2nd) with two shows starting at 10am PST and 2pm PST, hosted by HelloKellyLink and Seltzer and produced by Amazon Twitch will have an interactive environment for fans who tune in that will be using "the largest custom extension created for Twitch to broadcast "Battle Cars," allowing[...]

Capcom will be holding a livestream on Twitch celebrating Mega Man's 30th anniversary on December 4th, promising that you won't want to miss it Because, well, who doesn't have some fond memories of our blue pixelated hero? Credit// Capcom Back in September, Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 producer Kazuhiro Tsuchiya said to look forward to December for Mega[...]

This week, Twitch unveiled brand new plans to add Achievements and Stream Summary to the list of tools available to people who are either partnered with the service or are in an affiliate program There is now an achievement bar that will help people who currently stream figure out if they're near the required goals to[...]

It may not be the first game you think to watch on Twitch these days, but a brand new partnership with Chess.com is looking to change that perspective The two companies have come together to form a multi-year partnership where events like the Speed Chess Championship and PRO Chess League will be broadcast on the social streaming platform on[...]

Today, Dot Esports published a story detailing a SuperData Research study on streaming media that shows Twitch has basically become the second biggest streaming media site online, with only YouTube being ahead of it What's more, the audience share was compared to other popular streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go, showing that it[...]

The raid has been available since 4.1 dropped on October 10th, but we're a bit behind the times and haven't tried it out yet. And because this is Bleeding Cool's first attempt at a Twitch stream, we're going in somewhat blind My two roommates and I attempted the raid last night and were forced to vote[...]

Today, social video service Twitch announced a month-long celebration of anime highlighted by marathons of Rooster Teeth's RWBY and the 4K Media, Inc managed classic, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters In addition, anime fans will be treated to live talk shows, gameplay and art streams from Twitch creators, and anime content from New York Comic-Con[...]

Today, Twitch announced their full sponsors and exhibitors list for the public to check out If you'd like to view the sponsor list, you can click this link here, while we have a full list of events below I especially enjoy the Bob Ross Paint-Along being added to the list! CONVENTION ACTIVITIES ● TwitchCon: The Party, presented[...]

A couple weeks ago, Twitch launched another of their marathon live streams, this one specifically featuring Starcade, the 1980's arcade game show that used to run on TBS with the occasional syndication afterward over the past few decades The stream did so well that Shout! Factory decided to load the complete library up for people[...]

As part of their presentation at PAX West today, Twitch announced a new set of tools that will be provided to developers called announced Twitch Extensions These are a new set of tools from its Developer Success team that "allow third-party developers to help creators customize their channel pages with interactive experiences." These new extensions can be[...]

Today, Twitch announced a new partnership with Mexico's AAA Lucha Libre Worldwide as their premiere event, Triplemania XXV, will be livestreamed on the social streaming platform This is a major deal since it is the first time a PPV wrestling event from a promotion outside of the United States will be taking advantage of Twitch's outreach to send[...]

Today, Twitch announced a new addition to their platform specifically geared toward players and fans of Overwatch and Hearthstone Right now, streamers can log in and find a new menu that appears over the Overwatch directory and Hearthstone directory, which will allow "viewers to filter channels by hero played on Overwatch streams, or by game mode, player[...]

The show only lasted one year on TBS from 1982-1983 until the "superstation" pulled the plug, but not before they cranked out over 130 episodes. Now those episodes are getting their own marathon on Twitch at the end of the month As previously announced at SDCC, for six days from August 28 until September 3, Geek &[...]

After being in beta since the Spring, Twitch has released the full version of their desktop app today, which includes some new options for broadcasters that will help deliver the best stream and service they possibly can. The look itself is going to slightly change to better optimize your ability to access different areas of the social[...]

After weeks of figuring out exactly what they planned on doing, Twitch revealed their schedule and plans for TwitchCon 2017 today You can see the full details on the convention's website, but here's a quick summary of the info 80 different sessions have been selected to take part in this year's conventions, including topics that[...]

Probably one of the oddest things you'll see on Twitch, and proof that you don't need to be an elite sniper to succeed in the game, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had an interesting little match one night that you might be interested to watch Twitch has been doing these events with game companies where they allow a[...]

Fans excited for the upcoming Spawn movie by creator Todd McFarlane and Blumhouse productions may be disappointed to learn that Spawn won't be the lead character in his own film. In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, McFarlane revealed that Twitch, not Spawn, will be the star of the film: "There's two big roles in the script[...]

It may be San Diego Comic Con, but that won't prevent Twitch from getting into the spirit of things and announcing a brand new Twitch marathon At the SDCC panel today, Twitch announced a partnership with Shout! Factory to host a marathon of Starcade. If you don't remember the show, Starcade was a classic game show where[...]

Doesn't matter if you're a famous Twitch player or have a fake Ph.D., if you cheat in Player Unknown's Battlegrounds you are in for some consequences That's what the streamer known as Dr DisRespect is learning today as the developers have banned his account from the server for teamkilling. Dr DisRespect Now teamkilling isn't unheard of, and most likely if[...]

You're about to get an anime fix for free on Twitch as the company has partnered with Crunchyroll for a five-day marathon of anime on the social streaming platform Fifteen different shows including Yuri on Ice, Mob Psycho 100, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers will run from July 27th at 3:30pm PDT until August 1st[...]

Twitch announced a whole new look and feature set for their mobile app today which should offer improved discovery, accessibility, and functionality on both the user and creator ends of the app The Twitch App will soon include the most requested features by both content creators and viewers, which includes the ability to begin live[...]

Tonight on Twitch, if you're obsessed with eSports in every aspect and feel those involved deserve more recognition that they get, you're about to have that wish come true The 2017 Esports Industry Awards will be announcing Stage One finalists for the following awards below, being broadcast at 9pm BST (1pm PDT, 4pm EDT in the states)[...]

Twitch's new Affiliates Program was designed for non-Partnered streamers to still earn income from their Twitch streams, and today's update will only make that easier Affiliate content creators will get the same subscription rates as Twitch Partners  $4.99, $9.99, and $24.99 on their channels They'll also have one custom subscription emote per tier to give[...]

The floodgates are about to open on Twitch for professional wrestling broadcasts as the social networking streaming site just made its first deal with a wrestling organization Wrestle Circus, a family-owned promotion based out of Austin, Texas, will be presenting their first major event on the service Saturday night. Dive Hard With A Vengeance will be broadcast[...]

Today Twitch announced that starting on June 26th, the official Shout! Factory channel will be running a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon! Just to be clear, these are the classic episodes from the Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson eras, and are not the new MST3K episodes currently on Netflix with Jonah Ray. A total of 38 episodes[...]

Twitch is essentially becoming the ESPN of eSports and leaving YouTube in the dust when it comes to live events at this point After signing multiple deals over the past few months, the live streaming site can add another deal to their broadcasting list with Blizzard The two have signed a two-year worldwide deal that[...]

For the past few weeks, we've been wondering just what YouTube and Twitch have had in mind for E3 Well, today Twitch came out swinging first as they revealed the schedule for their entire Twitch ESports Arena, which will be presented by T-Mobile and broadcast live on Twitch's special eSports channel. A new set of tournaments will be[...]

Yesterday we posted an interview with some of the members of Critical Role as they approach Episode 100. But today we have some quick news to add

The Twitched-based Dungeons & Dragons web series led by Matthew Mercer and his group of nerdy and talented voice acting friends has gained much acclaim in the two years they've been campaigning Each week the group sit down for one of the most entertaining D&D sessions you'll find on Twitch bringing you free episodes that can go[...]