Similar spot checks from less popular Twitch competitors YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming yielded far fewer cases of apparent live streaming of children. To stream on YouTube via mobile devices, a user must have more than 1,000 followers. Facebook Live doesn’t have a comparable restriction, but its live channel discovery …
Read More »SNK is adding more free classics to Twitch Prime today
Seven more ‘arcade classics’ As we shared in early June, Twitch Prime is partnering with SNK to give Prime members free stuff. Seven games (mostly fighters) were released to service last month, but now Twitch is set to deliver seven more starting today. Those games are Metal Slug 2, SNK …
Read More »An unreleased independent game took over Twitch, but it didn’t come out of nowhere
Image: Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris / Twitch You may have had a good weekend, maybe you played a video game, and then you moved to a different part of your home and played another game, because that’s quarantine, baby, but you probably didn’t have a weekend as good as the developers …
Read More »Twitch closes fake U.S. Army recruiting gifts.
Did you know that the US Army is playing on Twitch? That’s right, you can watch live streams of the US military playing their favorite video games. They even promote giveaways where you can win great game prizes if you just fill out some personal information. Big problem, though. The …
Read More »The US Army Has Been Told To Stop Scamming Twitch Viewers
In a line that only proves that cyberpunk dystopia is real, the U.S. Army has been reprimanded by Twitch for conducting fake sweepstakes on its broadcast channel. After criticism for banning viewers who breed the history of the war crimes service, Twitch has now forced the U.S. Army Esports Team. …
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