YouTube Gaming announced as Google’s answer to Twitch

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Google announced today YouTube Gaming, an app and website dedicated to the company’s gaming content.

Thousands of games will be featured through dedicated pages, each with videos and livestreams which feature the game in question.

“YouTube Gaming is built to be all about your favorite games and gamers, with more videos than anywhere else,” said YouTube Gaming product manager Alan Joyce. “From Asteroids to Zelda, more than 25,000 games will each have their own page, a single place for all the best videos and live streams about that title.

“You’ll also find channels from a wide array of game publishers and YouTube creators.”

Users will be able to go online or use the app to subscribe to channels, and sign up to be notified when a livestreams starts or when content has been uploaded.

New features will be made available for those who livestream, forgoing the need to schedule events prior to the stream.

YouTube Gaming will launch this summer in the UK and US.


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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/12/youtube-gaming-streaming-google/

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AlphabetsPosted:

StrategicsKEY I still prefer to use twice especially off my ps4


Right now that is the case, YouTube Gaming hasn't even started lol.

PryzelPosted:

7yle_Jr Wonder how YouTube Gaming will turn out to be, hopefully it will actually compete against Twitch.


Yea and hopefully it will make both want to improve until we have one platform better than the other.

StrategicsKEYPosted:

I still prefer to use twice especially off my ps4

OXTPosted:

Goodbye Twitch, hello Youtube.

OwenPosted:

Havent really heard anymore about this

21Posted:

Hm. Seems weird. It seems like some sort of ploy. What next? YouTube Music? YouTube Cats?

-Dylan1Posted:

Wonder how YouTube Gaming will turn out to be, hopefully it will actually compete against Twitch.

Blood-JrPosted:

I seen YouTube talking about this live yesterday. I don't YouTube will be able to compete with Twitch but hey, what do I know!

DeluxeHazardPosted:

NewYorkJets Twitch has a new rival to watch out for. I think this will be big.


I wouldn't think so. Twitch already has built up a huge, dedicated audience. It will take some time for YouTube Gaming to reach the amount of viewers that Twitch has.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

I still think that Twitch will be the more popular of the two.