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The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online. [1] The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on the US-based site Twitch, before growing to YouTube, Facebook, China-based sites Huya Live, DouYu, and Bilibili, and other services.
In February 2017, Twitch announced the Twitch Game Store, a digital distribution platform that would expose digital purchases of games within the site's browsing interface. When streaming games available on the store, partnered channels could display a referral link to purchase the game—receiving a 5% commission. Users also received a "Twitch ...
Ryan Letourneau (born November 28, 1988), [2] [3] better known as Northernlion, NL, or Northern, is a Canadian Twitch streamer and YouTuber. [4] He is a full-time gaming streamer on Twitch and uploads parts of his streams to YouTube, while also creating content exclusively for YouTube.
The project partnered with video game publishers and developers to offer games in exchange for donations to the charity. [17] [18] Through streams on his Twitch account, Boumaaza raised more than US$100.000. [19] By March 2015 the project had raised more than US$150.000 in total, and Boumaaza was an official ambassador for Save the Children. [16]
In December 2019, Lupo officially signed an exclusive deal with Twitch. [7] Lupo began playing Escape from Tarkov in 2020. He described the game as "unlike any other game I think right now" and noted that it could be played in multiple ways. [8] He said the game was "an absolute blast". [citation needed].
Kyedae began streaming on Twitch on October 31, 2020. [4] In less than a year, Kyedae gained a significant following, amassing 172,000 subscribers on YouTube and acquiring 288,000 followers on Twitch. [5] Kyedae's big break came when she was featured on the front page of Twitch, significantly boosting her follower count.
Mixer was an American video game live streaming platform. The service launched on January 5, 2016, as Beam , under the ownership of co-founders Matthew Salsamendi and James Boehm. The service placed an emphasis on interactivity, with low stream latency and a platform for allowing viewers to perform actions that can influence a stream.
Clint Basinger (born December 20, 1986), [2] better known as LGR (originally an initialism of Lazy Game Reviews), is an American YouTuber who focuses on video game reviews, retrocomputing, and unboxing videos. His YouTube channel of the same name has been compared to Techmoan and The 8-Bit Guy.