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Top Games for May 2015
People still like watching other people play video games live, so that’s like totally awesome. And what did people watching other people play video games live watch the most? Well… Continue reading Top Games for May 2015
A generational shift powered Twitch’s transformation into cultural phenomenon
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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YouTube vs Twitch Gets Real
Today, Twitch is the default service when it comes to streaming video games on the internet. Tomorrow? It might be Google. Maybe.
YouTube just announced a number of improvements to its streaming capabilities that are going to be of interest to anyone who plays games in front of other people.
Google’s video service now supports 60fps streaming in both 1080p and 720p, same as Twitch, but because it’s YouTube, it also supports HTML5 playback, which not only uses less resources than flash (which Twitch is stuck with), but lets you do this:
As of this week, YouTube live streams will use an HTML5 player in supported browsers. And because our HTML5 player supports variable speed playback, you can skip backward in a stream while it’s live and watch at 1.5x or 2x speed to catch back up.
Handy. Whether it convinces anyone currently using Twitch for its community (and established celebrities) and god-awful chat, though, is another matter.
Originally posted on Kotaku
2014 WSOP Player of the Year George Danzer Talks 2-7 Triple Draw on Twitch
Twitch, the Amazon-owned video-streaming platform, is steadily gaining acceptance among players as one of the best places to go to on the Internet for poker-related entertainment and instruction. Although the platform had already been used by video gamers for some time, it has found itself basking in the poker limelight only recently, thanks in large part to its adoption by a number of high-profile poker pros including Jason Somerville, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Daniel Negreanu.
Recording online poker sessions and providing strategy commentary is certainly not a new phenomenon; such recordings represent the core product of many poker-training sites. However, Twitch differentiates itself by providing a platform that both facilitates live video streaming and encourages viewers to interact with broadcasters in real time. That, coupled with the fact that most live streams are accessible for free (although in some cases special benefits are offered to paid subscribers), the range of options available to players interested in learning more about poker has never been broader.
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