Introducing the Twitch E3 Digital Ticket via Humble Bundle
Under the bright lights of E3, Twitch and Humble Bundle have activated our Wonder Twin powers to come up with an amazing bundle of digital goodies to support the ESA Foundation (ESAF). Together we’re...
View ArticleHey Spam: YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
Spam is bad, m’kay? We hate spam. (Well, we kinda like musubi, so maybe not spiced ham.) We’ve created a spam shield in Messages called the “Other” folder, which will have messages from users we aren’t...
View ArticleTwitch CEO on Bloomberg TV
We’re having a great time here at E3, and Bloomberg TV took the opportunity to sit down with Twitch co-founder and CEO, Emmett Shear, for an interview right outside the convention center. Check it out...
View ArticleBaja or Bust Sweepstakes
Twitch and Mountain Dew have partnered to bring you the #SummerofBaja Contest here on Twitch! If showing off your mobile gaming skills and winning some cool Twitch swag (official Twitch branded...
View ArticleThe Twitch Quarter Million Dollar Challenge for St. Jude PLAY LIVE
St. Jude PLAY LIVE, the video game marathon fundraiser to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, rolls into Week 2! There are still plenty of rewards to be won and now is the perfect time to...
View ArticleE3 2014 By the Numbers
E3 2014 was an event for the history books. On Monday, June 9 (press conference day), Twitch broke a single day unique viewer record with 5.9M people tuning into the site for all the video game...
View ArticleTPP Broke a Guinness World Record, So We Made a TPP-Shirt!
TPP broke the Guinness World Record for most participants on a single-player online videogame with 1,165,140 Twitch community members playing via chat from February 12 - March 1, 2014. This record is...
View ArticleSummer Games Done Quick 2014 Starts June 22
E3 was just the first of many, many great things on Twitch this summer. The next huge thing is Awesome Games Done Quick’s sister event: Summer Games Done Quick, which starts June 22 at 11 AM PDT (2 PM...
View ArticleTwitch Exclusive Broadcast Partner for GameStop EXPO 2014
Today, GameStop announced an exclusive broadcast partnership with Twitch for GameStop EXPO 2014. All of the awesome GameStop EXPO live content will be streamed on GameStop’s Twitch channel, /GameStop,...
View ArticleTwitch Live Annotations for YouTube
Letting your audience know when you go live can be a lot of work. Chances are you maintain a presence on at least one social network, potentially two, if not three or four (we can keep counting … five,...
View ArticleTop Twitch Games for May 2014
You: Are you still doing this? Us: Yes. Disclaimer: We sort this list by the overall number of minutes watched per game. This allows us to give you a more accurate view of the Twitch community, as it...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Twitch Employee – John Rizzo, Chat Dude
Name, serial number, position, and when you started at Twitch. Hello! I’m John Rizzo and I work at Twitch as a Senior Software Engineer. My first day was on December 9, 2013, though it’s amazing to see...
View ArticleTwitch Live Annotations FAQ
We’ve been humbled by the response so far to V1 of Twitch Live Annotations. In going through all your feedback, we found some common questions that we wanted to address. Please note:We have discovered...
View ArticleCan I Watch Evo 2014 This Weekend on Twitch? Sure You Can.
This weekend (July 11-13) on Twitch, Evolution Championship Series (Evo), the world’s largest and longest running fighting game tournament, marks its 18th anniversary with Evo 2014. In addition to...
View ArticleTop Twitch Games for June 2014
While the Top 7 were relatively unchanged, E3* jumped into the Top 10 picture with record numbers. The real “stars” of the show were Wildstar with a huge jump from #18 in May to #10 in June, and Mario...
View ArticleMachinima Announces New Programming Slate on Twitch
Machinima has announced a new slate of programming on its Twitch channel. Since its launch, Machinima LIVE has proven to be one of the fastest growing channels on Twitch, with over 24.6MM views and...
View ArticleFirst Ever International Guild Wars 2 Tournament at Gamescom
If you’re a fan of large-scale PvP battles in a fantasy setting and yearn for some spell-slinging, sword-swinging, arrow-loosing action, you’re in luck. ArenaNet and Twitch are partnering up this year...
View ArticleMobile Web Channel Page Update
We want you to be able to watch Twitch from anywhere, regardless of the device you’re using. That’s why we decided to update our mobile web channel page. Previously, when you visited any channel from...
View ArticleGive Me All the Messages!
Editor’s note: This is a follow up to the introduction of the “Other” folder in Messages. Don’t want to miss a single, solitary message on Twitch? We got ya covered. We’ve added the ability to opt out...
View ArticleMianite: The New Minecraft Server on the Block
While Minecraft collaborative Let’s Play servers have been around since almost the conception of the game, few have so quickly risen to extreme popularity. Drenched in humorous but seriously devoted...
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