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10 of the PC Gamer favorite Twitch streamers

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Livestreaming has quickly become a huge part of PC gaming, and Twitch has been at the center of it all. But with hundreds of games being played and thousands of streamers playing them—enough to warrant its own convention, TwitchCon—it can be hard to know what to watch. Finding the most popular streamers is easy, but there’s a lot more out there.

We asked the PC Gamer staff and writers for their personal favorite Twitch streamers for any and all games. These are streamers who are fun to watch, educational, engaging, or all of the above. Even if you’ve never played the game they’re streaming, you can enjoy the show they’re putting on.

Don’t see your favorite streamer on the list? Tell us who they are in the comments below. And if you want to learn how to stream yourself, be sure to check out our beginner’s guide to livestreaming.

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News

YouTube creates gaming platform, Twitch pwns with swift response

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YouTube is launching an entirely new website for gamers — except, it’s not exactly grundbreaking.

YouTube announced a platform called Gaming on Friday, a separate website and app for its gaming community. It will be available in the U.S. and UK at some point this summer, with a special preview next week for E3 attendees.

Each game will get its own home where users can find streams, walkthroughs and other videos specific to that title, with content also coming from publishers and popular YouTube gaming personalities. Users can add games to their “collections,” similar to how they would subscribe to a channel and receive notifications whenever channels they follow begin a live stream.

Sound familiar? Twitch, the massive game streaming platform and community that Google was rumored to acquire last year (before ultimately getting purchased by Amazon), thinks so.

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Twitch

A generational shift powered Twitch’s transformation into cultural phenomenon

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Twitch is a cultural phenomenon, a service that tapped into a generational shift in the way people interact with video games at a time when few realized that shift was happening.

The desire by so many to watch others play video games through live video streams was an untapped demand that propelled Twitch’s success and launched it onto mobile platforms and two gaming consoles.

Speaking with Twitch co-founder and COO Kevin Lin earlier this month, he told Polygon that while it was “latent demand” for live streaming that helped Twitch grow so rapidly early on, the continued growth is powered by the service’s community.

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