Storm Eunice is drawing some serious livestream views online.
For the first time in the seven-plus year history of Hearthstone, a card reveal stream may have been canceled.
YourPrincess was one of the Twitch Rivals captains that drafted a team for the upcoming event, but shortly after the draft multiple players selected for her team dropped out of the tournament. Read up more on the story here:
On Monday Jan 11, Spanish Fortnite streamer, Grefg, started up a Twitch live stream to officially reveal his Fortnite skin getting added by Epic Games. And as his stream continued, he peaked at 2.5 million viewers. Read about his story here:
Ben "CohhCarnage" Cassell, the family-friendly Twitch streamer most well known for embracing an active community of back-seat gamers, Twitch community has also had a change of heart about Twitch donations.
TSM and Biofrost announced he would be taking a break from professional League to stream. Biofrost entered the LCS on TSM in 2016, playing with the org for two and a half years throughout his career, winning four titles with the team and attending Worlds three times. read more on his break here:
The official US Navy went live on Twitch and featured character names that glorified the World War II bombing of Japan and a racial slur. These names were never condemned by the Navy, and people were banned from chat after repeatedly bringing up the issues with those names. Read more on the story here:
Infusing gaming with music to bring fans together, the multi-faceted musician MOZIAH partnered with HyperX for upcoming Animal Crossing music video, going live on Twitch on Sept 12th to celebrate the launch. Read more on the event here:
Friday, August 28th, Team Envy announced a new addition to the org, none other than Dallas' very own, Post Malone. The award-winning rapper makes his entrance into esports! Read more here:
Friday, August 7th, Dr Disrespect returned to streaming, making his debut on YouTube Live and addressed the Twitch ban, as well as showing off his new home for the Champions Club on YouTube Live. Read more on his frustration here:
Ninja just held his first stream since his departure from Mixer on YouTube, peaking at 167,000 viewers and eclipsing his peak Twitch viewership from his last weeks on the platform one year ago. This was Ninja's first ever YouTube stream, averaging around 100,000 throughout his hour and a half long live on the platform. Read more on his stream here:
In one month, on July 22nd, Microsoft will be shutting down their livestreaming platform, Mixer, and will move their viewers and partners to Facebook Gaming. Ninja and Shroud have become free agents, hinting at move back to Twitch. Read the story here:
Recently, Twitch had a massive bought of copyright strikes against a bunch of streamers claiming improper use of music. T-Pain decided to make a bunch of free music for streamers to use without fear of catching a ban. Read more here:
Escape from Tarkov saw a huge jump in viewership over the last week, with Battlestate Games enabling Twitch drops on June 11th. Unique items are available exclusively through viewing specific Twich streams, and here is how you can connect them to get in-game content:
Riot Game's VALORANT has had incredible hype throughout its Closed Beta. However, despite peaking at over 1.7 million viewers, the game has fallen to an average of just 40,000 viewers today. Read more on the reasons behind its decline in viewership, along with possible ways it can return to the top.
In order to uphold competitive integrity, Riot Games has implemented a stream delay in their broadcasts. However, in Game 1 of the LCL Finals between Unicorns of Love and RoX, one of the streams didn't have a full three minute delay, and was instead casted live in English. That game had to be remade by request of the losing team. Read more on the story here:
All week long leading up to the LCS Finals next weekend, Riot Games will be hosting various online events to comprise a Virtual Tailgate for the Finals featuring streamers, cosplays, art, and more. Read more on the event here:
Tyler1 came out for LCS Cosplay Day Week 7, in a fancy Draven get-up done by Stella Chuu. Here's what he has to say about his time cosplaying, switching to jungle, potential for playing for an org, and his upcoming future. Read more here:
Despite there being no official games for both the LEC and LCS this past weekend, pro players and casters alike showed up for work anyway, creating custom in-houses to entertain fans! Read more on the story here:
Simon and Schuster imprint, Gallery Books, has finalized a deal with Dr. Disrepect, popular first person shooter game streamer, to write a comedic memoir due next Spring. Read more on the story here:
