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Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.
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.
Nathan Grayson, a gaming journalist and author of the upcoming book Stream Big, describes Twitch as the ultimate social hangout. “It’s like sitting on a couch and watching a friend play a ...
Most classic arcade games such as Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Defender and Robotron were also twitch-based. As games and their control inputs evolved, the games started to favor strategy over reaction, early turn-based games being the most prevalent examples. Such games required players to plan each move and anticipate the opponent's moves ahead ...
Ninja is the most-followed channel on Twitch. [1]The live streaming social platform Twitch launched in 2011 and is an important platform for digital entertainment. [2] [3] The distribution of followers across all of the streamers on Twitch follows the power law, [4] and is a useful metric for assessing the popularity a streamer has on the platform.
The network, like Twitch, allows users to broadcast themselves playing games, though only select individuals can use the service. For several years, MLG.tv was the primary streaming platform for the Call of Duty professional scene; famous players such as NaDeSHoT and Scump have signed contracts with the company to use its streaming service ...
Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming platform developed and operated by Amazon. [1] [2] [3] The platform has integration with Twitch and is available on Windows, Mac, Amazon Fire TV, iOS (as a progressive web app) as well as Android. Games and channels from brands such as Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games are accessed via the Luna+ paid subscription.
An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or any other computer network available. [1] Online games are ubiquitous on modern gaming platforms, including PCs, consoles and mobile devices, and span many genres, including first-person shooters, strategy games, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG). [2]