Service Update: Major Video System Update and Prague Is Online
Over the past year, we’ve been hard at work on massive improvements to the video system. Our goal is to improve the video system’s stability and scalability so that we can offer the best quality video...
View ArticleBroadcast Killzone™ Shadow Fall This Weekend for a Chance to Win Twitch Swag!
Do you play video games and like free stuff? Ever worn a t-shirt? Want to ditch your current backpack (Do you rock one strap or two?)? Tired of drinking water from faucets? If you said yes or are tired...
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ShadowPlay Twitch Streaming Functionality Enters Beta
Twitch and NVIDIA are excited to announce that as of today you can download and stream to Twitch directly through GeForce Experience. What’s more, this is the first integration that utilizes NVIDIA’s...
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Killzone Shadow Fall Global Emotes Now Available
As part of their Twitch swag contest, the fine folks at PlayStation have supplied us all with Killzone Shadow Fall emoticons. Now, let’s all work together to ween ourselves off of Kappa and over to our...
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Early Access Titles a Hit on Twitch
Video games are weird. We used to fret over whether or not to slap $5 bucks down on the counter and reserve a copy of a game. Now we fund game development based on what we’d read on the back of the...
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The Channels You Follow – Now in the Directory
Previously only available from the “Following” directory in the left navigation of the site, you now have access to all your followed channels in a persistent right-hand navigation across all Directory...
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New Video System: Update after One Week in Full Service
FIRST: We’re keenly aware and sympathetic to the notion that less latency will make social interaction better. We care very much about interactivity and continue work to deliver less overall latency....
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Awesome Games Done Quick – A Speedrunning Marathon for a Good Cause
Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 is nearly upon us! Speed Demos Archive presents Awesome Games Done Quick 2014, a 7 day (January 5-11) video game speedrunning marathon benefiting the Prevent Cancer...
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LethalFrag – Two Year Live Stream Challenge Comes To An End
In December of 2011, Matthew McKnight, aka LethalFrag, posted on his blog that he’d soon embark on an epic quest to stream every single day for two years straight and at least two hours per session,...
View ArticlePlayStation 4 Broadcasting Continues to Grow on Twitch
Broadcasting your gameplay from a PlayStation 4 to Twitch only takes a couple of clicks, so it’s no surprise that one of our biggest console streaming spikes has been right after its launch and...
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AGDQ 2014 Raises $1 Million for Prevent Cancer Foundation
Every time the communities behind Speed Demos Archive and Speed Runs Live get together for their twice-annual Games Done Quick charity marathons, we always expect it to be bigger and better than the...
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Apex 2014 – Powered by Twitch
Twitch and Apex are proud to bring you Apex 2014 – powered by Twitch. Apex is one of the strongest events in the world for the ever-growing Smash Bros community, and last year broke out as an...
View ArticleTwitch 2013 – A Retrospective
When video game historians look back on gaming a decade from now, 2013 will be the year they cite as the tipping point of streaming. Every major event, publisher, developer, and media outlet in the...
View ArticleLook & Feel of Settings Pages Updated
We’ve updated the look of your Twitch Settings pages to better match the rest of the site. You can check out this makeover at http://twitch.tv/settings. As we made some changes in organization, we’ve...
View ArticleService Update: Los Angeles POP Upgraded
We recently upgraded our Twitch Los Angeles Point of Presence (POP), increasing its serving capacity by roughly 400%. This upgrade also increased ingest (broadcast) capacity. We may also have installed...
View ArticleTwitch to Broadcast 17th D.I.C.E. Summit and Awards
We’re proud to announce that the venerable D.I.C.E Summit and Awards will be broadcasted live on Twitch on February 4-6, 2014. Check out http://www.twitch.tv/dice for a stellar lineup of game...
View ArticleGamers for Giving Event to Benefit Children and the Military
Gamers are a giving bunch! We’re happy to help announce the 6th Annual Gamers for Giving event brought to you by the Gamers Outreach Foundation. Taking place this February 8th and 9th, you can get in...
View ArticleBlizzard Stream Awards, Powered by Twitch
This is a guest post from Kevin Johnson, Senior Manager, Community Development, Blizzard 2013 was a great year for Blizzard games thanks to the passionate Twitch community. In order to give back to...
View ArticleEnder’s Game on Blu-Ray Tournament, powered by Twitch
The Ender’s Game on Blu-ray Tournament is an unique promotional esports event held in collaboration with Twitch and MLG featuring an epic StarCraft II tournament for over $20,000 in prizes being held...
View ArticleTwitch is 4th in Peak US Internet Traffic
Wow. Embedded in a Wall Street Journal article about Apple’s internet infrastructure, is an awesome infographic detailing the top 10 Web properties and their corresponding percentage of peak US...
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