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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.
The Game Awards 2020 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2020. It was produced and hosted by Geoff Keighley , and took place on December 10, 2020. The preshow ceremony was hosted by Sydnee Goodman.
The 16th British Academy Video Game Awards was hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 2 April 2020 to honour the best video games of 2019.Though originally planned to be presented at a ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the event was instead presented as a live stream due to concern over the coronavirus pandemic.
Video Games Live (VGL) is a concert series created by Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. [2] The concerts consist of segments of video game music performed by a live orchestra with video footage and synchronized lighting and effects, [3] as well as several interactive segments with the audience. Incorporated in 2002, Video Games Live has performed ...
The video game industry in general was boosted by the pandemic, since people under pandemic lockdowns were forced to stay home, with video games becoming a popular pastime. Total spending in video games grew to US$33.7 billion in the United States during the first nine months of 2020 compared to US$27.9 billion for the same period in 2019. [87]
In 2017, Twitch remained the leading live-streaming video service for video games in the US, and had an advantage over YouTube Gaming, which shut down its standalone app in May 2019. [13] [14] [15] As of February 2020, it had three million broadcasters monthly and 15 million active users daily, with 1.4 million average concurrent users.
Minecraft Live is an interactive livestream about the video game Minecraft, hosted annually by developer Mojang.Originally starting out as an in-person fan convention called MinecraftCon (later Minecon [a] [b]), the first gathering was in 2010; the event reoccurred annually until 2016 under the name Minecon.
The ninth generation of video game consoles has begun in the 2020s, with the release of the Xbox Series X and Series S and PlayStation 5 in 2020. The ninth generation offers faster computation and graphics processors, support for real-time ray tracing graphics, [9] output for 4K resolution, and in some cases, 8K resolution, with rendering speeds targeting 60 frames per second (fps) or higher. [10]