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Credit: Twitch October's Free Games with Prime for Twitch Prime subscribers have been announced, just in time for Halloween Anyone with an active Twitch Prime subscription will be able to sink their fangs into five "spooktacular" free games from now until October 31. The games on offer for October include Stranger Things 3: The Game, The Walking[...]

It's weird to see TwitchCon 2019 happening without Ninja involved, but that's where we're at, and after this week, probably never again Earlier this year, the Fortnite player bailed on the social streaming platform for Mixer, which came with its own turmoil as adult ads suddenly found their way to his former channel Aside from[...]

During this evening's Opening Ceremonies for TwitchCon 2019, Twitch reps revealed a lot of new improvements coming to the platform First and foremost, TwitchCon 2020, the European event will take place in Amsterdam from May 2nd-3rd, 2020, while the North American version returns to San Diego from September 25th-27th, 2020.  As for the features coming[...]

Twitch decided to kick off TwitchCon 2019 by revealing a brand new redesign today on both their branding and the platform itself For starters, as you can see here, the company changed the color palette to a new brighter purple to match what they refer to as "the vibrant energy of the community" There will[...]

The premise is pretty simple, as a play on GDQ's format, this is a two-week charity event featuring dozens of Twitch streamers From now until September 28th, the group will be raising funds for CheckPoint, which is a charity that connects mental health resources with video games and technology All donations gathered by those participating[...]

This morning, Twitch announced they had formed a brand new partnership with the Oakland Raiders and their future Las Vegas home of Allegiant Stadium According to the announcement, the partnership will include a Twitch-branded lounge in the lower level of the stadium and will feature interactive elements like streamer stations, Twitch viewing screens, esports competitions,[...]

This teaser itself included a few card spoilers for the Arthurian/Grimm-themed set. Source: Wizards of the Coast Today, the Twitch stream started with a cooking-show-esque timer screen, wherein a person was shown baking gingerbread cookies (food has been shown to be a mechanical side theme in the set) All the while, every few minutes a new card[...]

Streamers and content creators from every platform will be paying close attention to a lawsuit this week between Twitch and Phantoml0rd If you're not familiar with the situation,  James "Phantoml0rd" Varga is suing the social streaming website for monetary damages after being permanently banned Why was be banned, you may ask? Phantoml0rd owned a CS:GO[...]

On Sunday, the popular Fortnite streamer, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, vented his frustrations with Twitch's handling of his former channel's URL in a Twitter video post. Since his departure from the platform, Twitch has changed Ninja's former home page to a channel recommendation list This is out of the ordinary for the streaming giant Often, when a[...]

Ever since he switched platforms from Twitch over to Mixer, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has basically been getting grief for taking a payday to move his stream Game Rant has a story online today about how Ninja is continually being trolled over his move At one point during his stream, Ninja watched a video tribute to[...]

Twitch Rivals will be making a triumphant return to TwitchCon San Diego this year, with some major cash prizes on the line for a few games The company released a few details today letting fans and players know anyone could sign up The big tournament this year will be an Apex Legends battle with $500k[...]

Twitch has asked their staff at the San Francisco offices to work from home today after several threats were made toward their main HQ Business Insider and Kouaku have been following the story today, which appears to be a shooting threat In response, the company told their staff to work from home today while they[...]

Twitch is giving the public another crack at being a singing superstar as they've opened up auditions for the next Twitch Sings: Stream Star From now until August 5th, you have a chance of competing in this competition, where the winner will get a recording contract with Columbia Records along with a cash prize of[...]

Someone at Microsoft must have written a mighty big check as Tyler "Ninja" Blevins announced today he's moving from Twitch over to Mixer The Fortnite streamer revealed in both a press release and an official video (which we have below) letting fans know to head to the new location Blevins will kick off his first[...]

Confession Time: despite the plethora of summer viewing options, how I've spent most of my time in front of my television over the past few weeks has been watching YouTube and Twitch I've especially been interested in the resurgance of … Minecraft videos?!? I'm as surprised as anyone, really But what has gotten most of[...]

Twitch gaming streamer Alinity is finding herself in hot water this week after she was shown throwing her cat live during a game If you're unfamiliar with her, Natalia "Alinity" Mogollon has been a content creator since 2012, originally starting with World of Warcraft and then moving on to being a more diverse gamer Like[...]

Twitch has officially revealed the list of streamers who will be hosting their upcoming event "Twitch Sells Out", a Prime Day event The list of streamers includes Ezekiel_III, Dexbonus, TheNo1Alex, Swiftor, ThatBronzeGirl, JERICHO, VernNotice, AvaGG, GoldGlove, FemSteph, CouRageJD, TimTheTatman, okaydrian, Scarra, LilyPichu, DisguisedToast, pokimane, FEDMYSTER, Lulaboo, SeriouslyClara, UmiNoKaiju, Tangent, AnneMunition, Anthony_Kongphan, Lil_Lexi, Bnans, and Grimmmz[...]

Today both Twitch and Rockstar Games announced a new little deal for Prime members where they can get some free goodies in Rockstar titles Starting today, Twitch Prime members who link their Rockstar Games Social Club accounts to their profiles will get exclusive in-game bonuses, deals, and content for both Grand Theft Auto Online and[...]

Kotaku reported earlier this week that the Brazilian Twitch streamer had lost her sponsorship with the company after responding to a tweet in about the only way it should have been responded to In a now-deleted tweet, Cattuzzo took a photo of herself riding a mechanical bull with the caption "I am riding the chat."[...]

Dr Disrecpect will be making a grand comeback of sorts to Twitch very soon, as he made an announcement this week following his suspension If you're not entirely familiar with what's going on, here's a brief refresher Like a lot of us in gaming media and streaming, the Doc was at E3 2019 this year,[...]

Along with the festivities that Twitch will be doing during Prime Day this year, you're also going to get a fake shopping network called Twitch Sells Out There's not a lot to this specific story other than Twitch made it a separate surprise to reveal past the regular Prime Day events Basically, they'll have a[...]

It's an interesting concept to have a day celebrating people paying money to your service, but that's what's happening on Twitch with Twitch Prime Day All you have to do to celebrate is sign up for a Prime account before July 3rd and you can celebrate over a couple of weeks leading up to the[...]

Twitch has announced a new program today that will specifically involve subscribers as they have launched a beta for Subscriber Streams The gist of the new system is that streamers can now offer exclusive streaming content for subscribers, in an almost Pateron kind of way Subscriber Streams will only be available to trusted Partners and[...]

Twitch officially announced this week that tickets have now gone on sale for TwitchCon 2019 North America taking place this September in San Diego Some of the participating sections include Loot Cave, Artist Alley, a Cosplay contest, and Twitch Rivals: Road to TwitchCon live tournament On top of that, TwitchCon Charity Plaza will be returning[...]

This will be MAW's first foray into doing Twitch-centric outreach as they broaden their visibility to a new generation Starting today, the two will hold a week-long charity initiative on Twitch, with the goal of trying to reach $50,000 to support MAW's efforts in transforming the lives of children with critical illnesses In addition to[...]

The company essentially is branding this as "Shopify for Streamers", as you'll be able to integrate platforms like Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, Facebook, and Instagram together into a personal website dedicated just to you and your stream The idea being to bring everything together in one location as if you were your own business, complete[...]

Twitch Prime is at it again, with four months of League of Legends loot this time This four month team-up between Riot Games and Twitch will net League players four months of loot drops. Those loot drops will include skin shards and emotes for players to use in-game. Prime members can visit twitch.amazon.com/leagueoflegends to claim their first Rift Herald's[...]

It's not a new concept to hear about Twitch streamers earning cash for playing games, but it's becoming bigger for studios to front the cash In a new article from the Wall Street Journal, a few of the major companies have been forking over cash to streamers in short-term contract deals where people have been[...]

Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are offering some sweet, sweet loot for Twitch Prime members over the next few months The Twitch Prime rewards will be running from now through the Summer The bonus items will help both newcomers and veteran adventurers, so if you've ever wanted to get back into RuneScape, now is your time. RuneScape[...]

Crunchyroll is joining forces with the folks at Twitch Prime to add the first-ever non game related loot perk for Twitch members! If you've been looking at checking out Crunchyroll Premium and you're already an Amazon Prime member, you can get a free month of awesome anime, just because you're amazing. Why do I bring up Amazon[...]