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Xbox One owners, start your streams — the Twitch app’s broadcasting support is now available, just in time for Titanfall’s launch on March 11th. As promised, you can share live gameplay sessions with viewers around the world. You can use your Kinect to chat with any fans, although any interaction is strictly optional. As long Continue Reading →

Microsoft says that its next Xbox One update will start rolling out on Wednesday, less than a week before the launch of Titanfall. The update, detailed in February, will fix problems with joining and chatting with parties of your friends, prepare the console for the release of the Xbox One stereo headset and media remote, Continue Reading →

Next month, an update will bring the popular Twitch video game broadcasting service to the Xbox One in a way that home consoles have never seen before. It will launch on March 11, just in time for Titanfall. According to AP, the update will allow Xbox One the ability to live stream games via Twitch Continue Reading →

“With an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of typewriters, one will type Shakespeare’s plays.” — Émile Borel. There’s a fascinating social experiment currently underway right now: Up to 75,000 people are “playing” a single game of Pokemon Red over on Twitch.tv. In the five-and-a-half days since the stream started, over 9 million Continue Reading →

The meteoric rise of Twitch continues apace, with the online streaming service now one of the five most popular destinations for U.S. internet users. According to an infographic published by the Wall Street Journal – highlighted by Twitch marketing VP Matt DiPietro – Twitch was fourth in peak U.S. internet traffic share (1.8 per cent) Continue Reading →

Xbox One owners are going to have to wait until sometime next year to get their hands on one of their console’s most innovative features. Microsoft’s newly-launched Xbox One will … eventually … let gamers stream their gameplay to e-sports site Twitch.TV, so they can show the whole world how great they are at playing Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s Xbox One launched last week in 13 markets for $499 USD, and sold a million units within 24 hours, just like the PlayStation 4. Also like the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One had tech issues marring an otherwise solid launch – some people complained of malfunctioning disc drives, though Microsoft is taking care of Continue Reading →

The PlayStation 4 is great. I think. There aren’t really enough games out for me to say so definitively, but I think it’s great. So far. Available now in the U.S. for $399 (if you can find one), the PlayStation 4 took everything that was good about the PlayStation 3, got rid of (mostly) everything Continue Reading →

Just days ahead of the Xbox One’s Friday North American launch, Microsoft has announced that the ability to stream live Xbox One gameplay through gaming-focused site Twitch.tv will not be available until early 2014. “We know the ability to instantly broadcast gameplay is something the gaming community is excited about, and we are too,” the Continue Reading →

Skyrocketing user numbers likely ranks last among startup woes, but it’s a double-edged sword for Twitch. The live-streaming site, an offshoot of Justin.tv centered on video games, has seen such explosive growth that its main priority is setting up data centers around the world in order to support its 45 million viewers monthly, more than Continue Reading →