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Boosteroid joins Samsung Gaming Hub | News-in-brief
Platform joins company cohort providing game streaming to existing Smart TV owners
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Twitch gets an 8% bump in viewership for October
Daily hours watched hit 57 million for the month as it recovered from September's dip of 55 million
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Netflix's beta for cloud gaming expands to the US | News-in-brief
This comes months after it was available to a small group of subscribers in Canada and the UK
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Xsolla acquires Lightstream, Rainmaker, and Api.Stream
The additions aim to expand the business operations of Xsolla's partner network
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Ubisoft CEO: Streaming will change gaming just as Netflix has for TV and film
The executive believes in the next five to 10 years, many titles will be streamed and produced in the cloud
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Twitch dips 2% in viewership for August
Daily hours watched hit 56 million while Baldur's Gate 3 debuted among the top games streamed for the month
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Twitch viewership gets a 5% bump in July
A new mode and patches help Teamfight Tactics become one of the top-watched games during the month
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Twitch viewership sees a 3% dip in June
Blizzard's Diablo 4 debuts as the top watched game during the month
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Twitch pulls in 1.76bn hours in viewership during May
Nintendo's Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom debuted with 37 million hours watched during the month
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Twitch introduces new content classification labels
The new labels will replace the current toggle for mature content, but community guidelines will remain the same
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Twitch introduces 70/30 revenue split in new Partner Plus program
Streamers who match the criteria will benefit from a 70% share on their net subscription revenue up to $100,000 annually, after which it'll revert back to a 50/50 split
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Twitch rolls back ad guideline updates
The streaming platform's changes would have limited how users could generate revenue
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Since its January launch Kick has hit a total of 114m viewership hours
The streaming platform also saw its active channels jump by 180% during April
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Microsoft's next ten-year deal is with European cloud gaming platform Nware
Xbox firm soldiers on with partnerships despite UK regulator blocking Activision acquisition
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Amazon Luna launches in the UK, Germany and Canada
Ubisoft+ support also available to UK subscribers from today as Amazon's cloud gaming service expands
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Twitch viewership dips 8% in February as it hit 1.64bn hours
StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg say that Hogwarts Legacy pulled in 71 million views on the streaming platform
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Kai Cenat breaks the record for most Twitch subscriptions within a month
The content creator pulled in over 300,000 subscribers throughout Black History Month
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YouTube Gaming viewership jumps 25% in December
StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg say that Escape from Tarkov grew to 39 million views on Twitch
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The Game Awards pulls in 103m livestreams | News-in-brief
The 2022 Geoff Keighly hosted program's viewership grew 21% year-over-year
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Facebook Gaming viewership grew by 21% during November
StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg reports that during 2022 League of Legends hit 1.4 billion viewing hours on Twitch
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Twitch updates measures to clamp down on child grooming
Mandatory phone verification, updated moderation and Spirit AI acquisition expected to assist efforts against predators
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Twitch pulls in 1.8bn viewership hours during October
Overwatch 2 debuts as the third most watched title on the streaming platform during the month
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Xbox shelved Keystone streaming console because it was too expensive to produce
Phil Spencer says device would ideally launch with a controller at $99 to $129 to be viable
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Ubisoft, Bungie, IO Interactive and Tequila Works mobilise to deal with post-Stadia fallout
UPDATE: Rockstar Games confirms that players who played Read Dead Online on Stadia can transfer their data
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Netflix opening fifth studio and "seriously exploring" cloud gaming
Streamer's gaming VP Mike Verdu says the company has 55 titles in the works