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Gaming For Fun And Profit – A Pro’s Guide To Game Streaming

Playing games can be a form of leisure. It can be a way to socialize with friends. It can be a sport. And now, for many, it’s a job. While livestreaming can earn you fame and fortune, it’s difficult to become a big-name streamer. We’ve made it a little easier for you by turning to some established pros for advice on how to turn your game time into a show that people might actually want to watch.

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RULE 1: Make a schedule and keep it

Ross: It’s very important to have a schedule. People need to know when you’ll be on air. You need to make it easy for them. It’s essential in the early days of a streamer’s career that you find a schedule and stick to it. Bonus streams with little notice are a nice treat for your fans. It’s extra content for them to enjoy. Continue reading Gaming For Fun And Profit – A Pro’s Guide To Game Streaming

10 of the PC Gamer favorite Twitch streamers

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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YouTube creates gaming platform, Twitch pwns with swift response

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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