New Release Tuesday: Ghostbusters Edition
It’s a spirit heavy week of new releases as ghosts of all different types find their way to Twitch. Heart of the Swarm’s Kerrigan was once an elite Terran soldier referred to as a Ghost, Kratos was a...
View ArticleTwitch Announces Record Breaking Growth
We’re thrilled to share with you all today some brand-new statistics on the record breaking growth we here at Twitch have experienced in the month of February. In terms of audience size, content...
View ArticleUbisoft Integrates with Twitch for TrackMania² and Shootmania
Joining an already impressive array of industry partners who have integrated our Twitch live streaming SDK, Ubisoft has announced that it will be bringing Twitch broadcasting to it’s popular Trackmania...
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How to Know When your Favorite Channels Go Live
You may have noticed that we’ve rolled out a small, but very cool, enhancement to the directory page: Live Notifications. Now, when a channel you follow goes live, you’ll see an alert in the left-side...
View ArticleQuality of Service and You: Chasing the 1080p Unicorn
(Here at Twitch we’re all about trying to educate you beautiful people as much as we can. An educated viewership is an empowered viewership, and we could most certainly use your help when it comes to...
View ArticleMLG Winter Championships
This weekend on Twitch, Major League Gaming celebrates the tenth anniversary of their annual Winter Championships series. It all begins tonight at 2:30PM PST, live from Dallas, Texas, featuring the...
View ArticlediskborsteMC Breaks 30-year-old Missile Command Record
Ars Technica has a great story today on Victor Sandberg, aka Twitch broadcaster diskborsteMC, and his more than 56 hour journey to defeat a 30-year-old Missile Command world record. It took him nearly...
View ArticleNew Release Tuesday: All The Feels Edition
It’s an emotional release week as Microsoft ships what is expected to be its last, big-budget Xbox 360 title before the new wave of consoles. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Cart Life arrives on...
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Everything You Need to Know about Twitch at PAX East 2013
PAX East, one of the largest consumer gaming conventions in North America, returns to Boston this Friday, March 22 – 24, and we’ll be right there on the show floor during the daytime, and taking over...
View ArticleExplanation for Site Blip on March 19
Last night (3/19/2013) between about 6:50pm and 7:30pm Pacific, we were effectively “down.” This was an unplanned outage and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain what happened. Foundational...
View Article2.6 Million Tuned into MLG Winter Championships on Twitch
This past weekend, more than 2.6 million Twitch viewers tuned in to the MLG Winter Championships to witness StarTale Life, KT Rolster B, Cloud 9 and Fariko Impact take home their respective...
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Highlight Video Page Revamp
Twitch is first and foremost a LIVE video platform. But you may have noticed that we’re slowly rolling out new features that make Highlights more useful. We added a “Browse Videos” option to the...
View Article1.1 Million is the Magic Number for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
Congrats to Blizzard on a number of milestones regarding their latest release, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and they all have a common set of digits to share. After only its initial two days on...
View ArticleTwitch Teams Up with RAPTR
Here at Twitch we envision a future in which playing a game is the same as broadcasting one. You may have heard about in-game integrations Twitch streaming with Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Planetside...
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Twitch at GDC 2013
March madness indeed. Quickly on the heels of what was by all accounts an amazing PAX East, Twitch is headed right into the Game Developers Conference (GDC). GDC is the world’s largest and...
View ArticleOn Channel Following Limits
TL;DR: While trying to improve a critical part of Twitch, we made a hasty code change that limited the number of channels viewers could follow to 100. That was a mistake and we’re sorry! We’re raising...
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Evolve Launches Universal Twitch Integration LIVE! From GDC
You may have noticed back in December that Evolve, the growing social network and collaboration platform for gamers, announced their intention to integrate Twitch broadcasting directly into their...
View ArticleNew Release Tuesday: Bioshocked Edition
After years of anticipation, Kevin Levine and Irrational Games have finally unleashed their follow up to one of the most highly acclaimed first-person shooters of all time, Bioshock: Infinite. Also, a...
View ArticleUpdate #5 – Channel Page Beta
TL;DR: Starting on Thursday, March 28, we are entering the viewer “opt-out” phase of our channel page redesign beta. Why? Based on analytics, the new design outperforms the old design in every way....
View ArticleTwitch App Coming to Ouya
We’re wishing good luck to our friends at Ouya on their launch event at GDC tonight at 8pm PT. The Android-based Console was a Kickstarter phenomenon, and they start sending the first batch of consoles...
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