VENN, the Video Game Entertainment and News Network, is set to launch in August with 30 million households and distribution partners including Twitter, Twitch, YouTube and Facebook Gaming.
In coming weeks, VENN will announce additional deals in digital, linear, free ad-supported streaming TV services and virtual…
Streaming sensation and World of Warcraft pro Byron “Reckful” Bernstein died on Thursday at age 31. His death was confirmed by his girlfriend, who said he committed suicide.
Reckful had almost a million Twitch followers and amassed more than 250,000 YouTube subscribers. He was known for broaching sensitive subjects in…
Twitch, the live-streaming site owned by Amazon, and Reddit have both taken steps to limit content related to President Donald Trump.
Along with recent moves by Facebook and Twitter, the sanctions have amped up recent tensions over the digital spread of Trump messages during the runup to the 2020 presidential…
Microsoft is shutting down its videogame streaming venture Mixer, announcing it will instead migrate its streaming community to Facebook Gaming.
The move, which will take effect July 22, is expected to enable a number of high-profile streaming personalities from the gaming world to potentially return to Amazon-owned Tw…
Co-created by writer and producer Bernie Su and author Evan Mandery, Artificial made history by winning Twitch its first Emmy. The first scripted series for the live video streaming platform also earned a Peabody Award. With all of its accolades and two seasons under its belt, a third season was underway for the…
The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Artificial is coming back for a third season on Twitch. The new season of the sci-fi series will be dubbed Artificial: Remote Intelligencewhich, like the title suggests, is a remote production, fitting in with the current global landscape. The new season will include 12 two-hour…
Nina Yang Bongiovi, the producer behind critically acclaimed features such as Fruitvale Station and Sorry to Bother You and the Epix crime drama Godfather of Harlem, is collaborating with Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Gold House chairman Bing Chen to launch AUM Group, a multicultural film fund. Also on board for…
For millions players of the video game Fortnite, the withdrawal symptoms are over.
The Epic Games title, which went into a publicity-savvy “black hole” on Sunday, returned to full power Tuesday with a full-length trailer for its newest iteration. Live game play of the new chapter got under way after the trailer…
Gamers will now have easier access to President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign activities. The Commander in Chief has joined Amazon’s Twitch video livestreaming site.
President Trump now has a verified account on the platform, already has almost 40,000 followers. His first Twitch effort came with his…
Esports content creator and Twitch personality Nick "NICKMERCS" Kolcheff has signed a multi-year deal to continue to stream exclusively on Twitch.
The deal was brokered by UTA and The Kinetic Group. NICKMERCS is appearing this weekend at TwitchCon and will be hosting meet-and-greets with partners and his fanbase, the…
Streamers attempting to cover the recent Democrat presidential candidate debates ran into copyright issues with CNN, whose complaints forced take downs on YouTube and Twitch.
The take-downs included conservative and liberal sites, according to a report from ReclaimTheNet. Those affected included David Pakman, Kyle…
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, gaming’s biggest star, has switched allegiances. Starting Friday, he’ll move his livestreaming activities from his home at Twitch to Microsoft’s competing Mixer, detailing his online exploits at http://www.mixer.com/Ninja.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Ninja was Twitch’s biggest…
