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Miss Twitch Weekly? Get the VOD + Timestamps for February 13th, 2015

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Here is the 4th episode of Twitch Weekly for 2015, talking about Twitch Plays Pokémon Returns, Twitch App Challenge, Survivor GameZ Recap, and much more. Thanks to /r/Twitch user Jikkircraft (@Jikkir on Twitter) who has put down all the subjects with timestamp links! Check it out below:

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Hey guys, here’s the TL;DW for Twitch Weekly 02/13/2015. As always, VOD’s and links are next to each section. Hope it helps!

Intro

  • Hosts @djWHEAT, @SomaJT, @Fishstix, @Atrioc
  • There may or may not be a bit of silence at the start because of microphone oopsies – don’t worry! The VOD links past that! 😀
  • Soma is a God at Heroes of the Storm, or something…

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Twitch Plays Pokémon Returns!

  • This marks the 1 year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon… Darn it’s come by so quick!
  • For those that lived under the internet rock, TPP is a chat interactive gaming experience for all! Type your commands in the chat to help play along a nostalgia favourite
  • Pokemon Red is the game we’re all playing together
  • Abby 2.0 is our starter Pokémon! Charmander is love. Charmander is life.
  • Praise Helix Fossil! – The “PraiseIt” Emoticon is now global as a celebration of this awesome anniversary.
  • TPP Praise Helix shirts are now available – limited edition

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AGDQ Info Graphics

  • Awesome Games Done Quick stats for you all; I’d highly recommend checking out the infographic!
  • Some notable statistics and achievements include:
  • $1.58M raised
  • 382,783 Kappas (~10% of all chat messages… WHAT)
  • 9.4 Million Unique Viewers

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Twitch App Challenge by Overwolf – Vote for your favourite Apps!

  • We need you guys to start voting on some of your favourite App ideas and give some ideas yourself, here!
  • You may have heard about the Twitch App Challenge from the previous Twitch Weekly streams, but for those who haven’t heard, check some of the bullet points below!
  • Overwolf app competition going on up until April 30th
  • The goal? Improve the life of Twitch users – both broadcasters and viewers with your own PC-based app!
  • Check out the link in the title for rules, dates and to enter the competition!

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Twitch Movie Night!

  • “World 1-1”
  • Takes a look at the origins and history of gaming
  • Check out Devolver!

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Survivor GameZ Recap!

  • Hit a whopping 192k viewers – WOAH!
  • Lirik may or may not have died in the first 5 minutes… RIP
  • Congratulations to psiSyndicate and Kattnft on first place!
  • Main events every other month!
  • Qualifiers every month, starting next month

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Dota Asian [Championships](http://twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

  • Prize pool nearly hit $3M
  • EG comes first place against Vici Gaming – a $1.2M grand prize!
  • 3 – 0 Sweep

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Pokémon Regionals

  • Check out the tournament details here!
  • Trading card games, 2v2 battles.. Trust me, these guys rule!

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CS:GO Katowice

  • ESL One Katowice offline qualifiers!
  • Check out tournament details here!
  • Always a huge event on Twitch – you don’t want to miss out!

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LCS North America

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New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards!

  • Fourth annual awards
  • Developers from around the world, and game oriented comedy clips from The Daily Show and Dorkly – it’s a great watch!
  • Monday, February 16th, 4:30PM PST!
  • Watch it live here

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Fragdolls first annual “Just Dance Challenge”

  • Charity event for the Special Olympics
  • Each time they hit a goal of $200, they’ll start a group dance to a Just Dance song!
  • So far they’ve raised a total of $6k and are aiming for a $10k goal
  • The event finale will be streamed Sunday 02/15 – 7PM – 10 PM PST! Remember to follow them with the link in the title

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Awesome, new top games being streamed!

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Twitch Partner Spotlight – TigerWriter!

  • This week’s awesome partner – TigerWriter!
  • The Binding of the Beard! What a God
  • He’s a variety caster playing plenty of different games – an extremely nice guy with a great community
  • Stream schedule: Sunday to Thursday at 5PM PST/8PM EST

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Video Spotlight – TerrorHertz!

  • Terror is an awesome streamer, though not full time mainly streaming on the weekends. Give him some love, and don’t forget to thank him and all awesome streamers for their time entertaining us awesome bunch!
  • Check out his trailer here
  • Want to be featured? Send in a 60-90 second trailer for your channel and DM /Twitch on Twitch with a dropboxxed video!

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Staff Pick!

  • This week, the staff pick is an awesome mobile broadcaster with a pretty unique replay feature – DZLiveOnTwitch!
  • Recently partnered
  • He’s that dude with the cool foot pedals we spoke about last week!

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Q&A

  • This week it exists! YAY! As always, answers aren’t typed here because they’re generally a little waffely, but below are all questions asked (if you’re interested) with the VOD link at the bottom!
  • Will there be any improvements to the current inbox system? The current system is a little too basic.
  • How can we purchase the new Praise Helix shirts?
  • Bets on how long TPP will take to complete?
  • Twitch has mentioned more varied content on the Twitch channel – any more information on that?

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Closing Thoughts

  • Survivor GameZ did awesome
  • Thanks for watching, as always!
  • Remember PraiseIt is now a global emoticon!
  • PAX East panels have been released – Twitch’s Town Hall isn’t on the first day this time around!

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19-Year-Old Swatter Faces 5 Years in Prison; Army Veteran Swatted Mid-Stream on Twitch – Today in “stuff that shouldn’t fit right into our gaming tag…”

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In addition to featuring prominently in Law and Order‘s upcoming Gamergate episode, the practice of swatting (falsifying claims with the aim of sending armed law enforcement to a target’s house) is gaining more national attention following the raid of 27-year-old veteran and Twitch streamer Joshua Peters’ home and the unrelated arrest of 19-year-old swatter Brandon Wilson.

According to The Guardian, Peters (Koopatroopa787 on Twitch) was playing Clash of Clans and Runescape for an audience of nearly 60,000 viewers when armed members of the Minnesota St. Cloud police department were dispatched to his house after receiving a phone-call that someone “had shot their roommate and now they were pointing their gun at them” at Peters’ residence. The police reportedly heard “two gun shots” before the call ended.

Peters, who told The Guardian “there’s no possible persons who I can think would do something like this to me,” addressed his Twitch followers after the attack, saying,

I see you posting my address. I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you. They could have been shot, they could have died. Because you chose to swat my stream. I don’t give a shit about what you have against me, or what I did to you. For that I am at a loss for words. Your gripe is with me. But do not involve my family in this. They don’t deserve it.

Peters explained to The Guardian,

There’s not a lot of things that can get me emotional in this world… but it’s been a process getting back in my feet. Today was the first day where everything went smoothly, it was very energetic, everything was going well in my stream, and then it’s like, once again: here is another hurdle to overcome.

And this is way worse than anything else I’ve had to overcome. It was like… gosh, let’s go back to the other areas I had to deal with, they were much more manageable. I’m the oldest of four brothers, and to know that a gun was pointed at my little brother? That hits home for me.

Whether or not the perpetrators intended to inflict anything more than emotional trauma on Peters and his family, harassment-via-law-enforcement can obviously have fatal results: in 2014, a Utah man was shot and killed by a SWAT team after calling a suicide hotline, while a 1-year-old was severely burned after SWAT members threw a grenade into his playpen in October of last year. For African-American male targets, swatting obviously comes with additional terrifying implications.

Thankfully, at least one of the perpetrators responsible for this kind of harassment is facing repercussions: 19-year-old “Brandon Wilson,” known online as “Famed God” (!), has been arrested in Nevada and is awaiting extradition to Illinois for allegedly reporting a murder to Naperville, Illinois police in July 2014. According to Polygon, Wilson also threatened the banking and Social Security accounts of his gamer target and is suspected in multiple swatting incidents across the U.S.

Hopefully, Wilson’s arrest will set a precedent and serve as a deterrent for prospective swatters. In an ideal world, law enforcement would also be able to intervene in online abuse like the kind faced daily by many of the devs targeted by Gamergate without harassment needing to escalate into IRL consequences first.

Originally posted on The Mary Sue

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Why Twitch is the Video Network to Watch for 2015

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Twitch, a streaming service for video game content, has grown tremendously over the past 12 months. Last year, Social Times reported on Twitch as an underrated site in the video market. Twitch recently released 2014 data which indicates the network has taken a place as a growing force to be reckoned with.

According to the report, Twitch receives 100 million unique viewers per month, who 16 billion minutes of content per month. In other words: that’s more than 266 million hours per month.

YouTube viewers watch 6 billion hours per month, so Twitch remains in YouTube’s shadow in that regard. Still, compared to last year, Twitch viewing time increased by 66 million hours per month. Twitch has also doubled its monthly viewers count, and almost doubled its total videos broadcast per month.

Throughout 2014 Twitch implemented more ways to stream content to the site, and more ways to watch. Streaming is now available from desktop systems, certain iOS apps, as well as both PS4 and Xbox One consoles. Viewers can watch content on any of the aforementioned devices, in addition to Android systems, and TV streaming services like Chromecast and FireTV.

Twitch also commissioned a study of the gamers [PDF] who use the platform, which provides some interesting demographic data. 72 percent of gamers use smartphones, compared to 50 percent of non-gamers. 61 percent of gamers use tablet, compared to 33 percent of non-gamers. Gamers also tend to have higher levels of employment and education, and are more likely to use their devices to both consume and create more online content than their non-gaming counterparts.

The continued growth of e-sports is also a contributing factor to Twitch’s growth, according to the report. In fact, its users raised more than $10.5 million during various charity livestreams like Games Done Quick and Desert Bus For Hope. The Twitch community is clearly very engaged with the site and with the wider community.

Ultimately, Twitch’s success over the past year can’t really be attributed to the Amazon acquisition, which took place in August 2014. The site audience has been growing at a solid rate, and as more viewers become cord cutters seeking alternative entertainment, Twitch is well poised to capture that market.

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The Dark Horse for Online Video Streaming

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Television is on the slide. There has been an anecdotal evidence for a while — and more recently, actual evidence — that the traditional broadcast companies are losing eyeballs. Particularly, they’re losing out on younger viewers, which is by and large where advertising yields the biggest return. But while bigger services like YouTube, Netflix and Hulu would spring to mind as likely culprits, there’s an even bigger threat: Twitch.tv.

Twitch.tv is a streaming website that archives the content posted by its users. The secret of its success is the highly engaged gaming community that has gathered around Let’s Plays, Speedruns and playthroughs. Realizing the power of the site, some game developers have gone as far as implementing a one-click “stream to Twitch.tv” button, to get their game in front of viewers.

This kind of implementation has shown amazing results and viewers are flocking to Twitch. According to Twitch’s year-end report, 68 percent of its users reported a decrease in their TV watching habits in favor of watching Twitch instead. And they’re spending longer on the site. The average viewer watched 85 minutes of content in 2012. In 2013, viewing time increased to 106 minutes.

Netflix, Hulu and YouTube might be sweating a little. Twitch has 45 million unique viewers per month compared to Hulu’s 30 million and Netflix’s 34.7 million. While YouTube still dominates online video with more than 1 billion unique monthly views, the average viewer only stays on the site for 15 minutes.

Video games at large are starting to take over from television as the time killer (or filler) and the engagement of the Twitch community shows the growing trend away from television networks. Grand Theft Auto 5 grossed over $1 billion in just three days, making it the fastest selling entertainment product to date. Twitch’s success is a sign of the times, if not the coffin they’ll bury television in. Viewers are looking for video game content, and Twitch has it in spades.

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Miss Twitch Weekly? Get the VOD + Timestamps for February 6th, 2015

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We had the third 2015 episode of Twitch Weekly this week, talking about topics ranging from upcoming PAX East plans to Esports Events, Partner Spotlights, much, much more! If you want to know more about the all of topics we discussed – the super duper crazy awesome /r/Twitch user Jikkircraft (@Jikkir on Twitter) has put together a run down of all subjects + timestamp links to each of those sections! Check it out below:

Original Post by Jikkircraft

Intro

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PAX South Recap

  • Check out a quick recap of the event here!

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Twitch App Challenge by Overwolf

  • Overwolf app competition going on up until April 30th
  • The goal? Improve the life of Twitch users – both broadcasters and viewers with your own PC-based app!
  • Sponsored by Wickr
  • Over $25,000 and 5 categories – Interaction, Information, Customization, Freestyle and Gamification
  • Ensure you integrate the Twitch and Overwolf SDKs into your app
  • Check out the link in the title for rules, dates and to enter the competition!
  • Not a developer? Don’t worry! Let the Devs know what you want!

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Twitch Movie Night #4

  • “Gaming in Color”
  • This documentary explores the story of the ‘Gaymer’ community, and the rise of LGBTQ them in gaming
  • Check out Devolver

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Mianite returns!

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Shadowloo Showdown

  • Australian fighting tournament
  • Going on until the 8th of February (keep in mind Australia is UTC+11!)

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Survivor GameZ

  • Starts again Sunday – 1PM PST!
  • Here’s a list of all competitors
  • Check out the trailer
  • This will be the main camera stream – remember to follow it :)
  • HYPE HYPE HYPE

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Magic Pro Tour: Fate Reforged

  • For all information on dates, times and prize results – check out their official website

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Dota 2 Tournament continues

  • Dota Asian Championship Finale end this Monday
  • Currently a $3 million prize pool, up from $2.2 million form last week alone!
  • Check out the current standings on Liquidpedia

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Top 20 Twitch Game List

  • Check out the list on the official Twitch Blog page
  • DayZ has fallen a lot of ranks… InB4 Survivor GameZ!
  • Gaming Talk shows has increased a lot
  • Heroes of the storm is tickling the top 20 at rank 21!
  • Check out the list yourself, it’s awesome :D
  • Also, check out the awesome Visual Mapping of Twitch Communities (if you somehow missed it)!

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Twitch Partner Spotlight! – Imlrsko

  • You might know him as the almighty RNJesus!
  • Streams Monday – Friday, 5pm-11pm PST
  • RNJesus was awesome enough to make an appearance during PAX South! Check out that VOD here!
  • As with all Twitch Partner Spotlights, he’ll be on the front of the Twitch Home page – highlighted in the official Twitch Partner Spotlight section

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Twitch Video Spotlight – Treble

  • Rank 1 NA in Heroes of the Storm! Momma always told me it’s about that Bass, but in this scenario, it’s all about hat Treble!
  • Check out the spotlighted video here
  • As always, if you want to be featured, DM /Twitch or /TwitchWeekly with a dropboxxed 60-90 second long video advertising your stream to be features on Twitch Weekly!

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Staff Picks – Zero!

  • Zero – APEX 2015 Super Smash Bro WiiU Champion
  • Check out the VOD of Zero in the finals here

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Q&A

  • Will Twitch hire designers to help out streamers with graphics designs for their channel?
  • Will the twitch chat for VODs extension be coming to twitch anytime soon?
  • Where can people who watch Twitch go to suggest ideas for the community or Twitch staff?

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Closing Thoughts

  • Atrioc is at LCS this weekend… I’m Jealous :(
  • Remember to check out Zero!
  • APEX rocked!
  • Checkout SurvivorGameZ on Sunday – 1PM PST!

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