Twitch Archives

Twitch and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood are no strangers, as the two came together last year with PBS to stream a marathon of the show last year. This week, in celebration of Fred Rogers's 90th birthday, the social streaming service will be broadcasting another marathon of the iconic children's educational program.

After getting much praise and hype and even a fair share of criticism on social media for breaking about a dozen different single-streamer records on Twitch, Ninja is finally getting some of the mainstream press he probably deserved days ago. 

A bit of cool news for those of you with Twitch Prime accounts as the company has decided to launch a brand new program that will reward you for being a member called "Free Games with Prime".

The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective.

Despite being PUBG's zany cousin/knockoff, Fortnite has gone on to become the most-watched game on Twitch. Part of that is likely down to accessibility and lack of cheaters.

According to the latest charts and information dug up by Fortnite Intel, Epic Games' battle royale title has officially surpassed PlayerUnknown's

In recent days, people have been buzzing about what will and won't be considered a violation of the new Community Guidelines coming to Twitch, which will be put into effect this coming Monday, March 5th.

Today, Twitch formally announced that their annual convention TwitchCon will be returning from October 26th-28th, and that it will be located at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

In a recent livestream, Twitch gaming streamer Aqualadora admitted to committing animal cruelty while working as a veterinary technician.

Twitch Studios has announced the premiere date for their streaming game show Stream On. Stream On is a live interactive game show that lets viewers discover and influence the future of up-and-coming streamers by participating directly in the program.

It seems today is the day for making esports announcements, as the ELEAGUE made it official today that they will be hosting Tekken 7 tournaments live on Twitch and TBS, starting with Tekken Team Takedown that will kick off on March 3rd.

A couple weeks ago we told you about Twitch's new Community Guidelines that would be implemented in an effort to eliminate toxic behavior in their chat and the community at large. Over the weekend, Twitch made a quick announcement on their Twitter that those guidelines would be held off from being implemented for

This Saturday, February 24th, Crunchyroll will be presenting their own Anime Awards live on Twitch to honor achievements in the genre over the course of 2017. But today, the company announced with Twitch a way to make the experience interactive beyond their site.

Leave it to the good folks at Blizzard for Puppy Rumble, an Overwatch-theme game of puppy-vs.puppy capture-the-flag. Starting at 6:00 p.m. ET/3:00 p.m. PT today and tying into the Chinese "Year of the Dog", you can tune into Twitch.tv/PlayOverwatch to watch the first ever canine competition of its kind.

The Game Grumps have launched a live charity stream on Twitch today for a very noble cause, as the group will be raising funds for the Crisis Text Line from 12-6 p.m. PST.

Comedy Central renews Tosh.0, The CW expands their Sunday programming, first look at the new Karate Kid series Cobra Kai, and more from the past week in TV!

Twitch is introducing a brand-new tool for chat rooms in their service called "Rooms", which is designed to help better reach the community that every streamer cultivates as they grow their audience.

In anticipation of the Devil May Cry HD Collection to be released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, Capcom has decided to give fans of the series an early present, provided they have Twitch Prime.

If you've been a contributing member of Twitch and have one of those compassionate hearts that donates to charity streams and keeps your favorite broadcaster going, Twitch is about to reward you with something that others won't be able to deny. 

Justin Timberlake's comparably tame Super Bowl halftime show, Chrysler's questionable decision to use MLK in an ad, what the Game of Thrones creators' new Star Wars project could mean for HBO's Confederate, and more from the realm of TV this week!

This week, Twitch sent out a notice to all of their members and streamers that their Community Guidelines and the Terms Of Service have gotten an update, specifically targeting harassing and toxic behavior.

According to a new article in The Information, Google may be on the verge of launching their own social streaming service like Twitch, focused specifically on gaming, known only at the moment as "Yeti". 

To mark all of the success that Twitch has seen over 2017, the social streaming service decided to create a webcomic to help perfectly illustrate what the company has gone through and what their fans mean to them.

Whether you love him or you hate him, you have to show a little bit of respect to the man known as Dr. DisRespect as his return to Twitch caused their system to crash. That's a feat that not even many of the major esports league can lay claim to.

Caffeine is a brand new social streaming service that has finally graduated from being in beta and is now a fully-functional broadcasting site, much in the same vein of how Twitch operates. The big differences that the company cites about themselves are that the delay in chat and livestreaming has been cut down

ABC orders Get Christie Love pilot, Oprah debunks rumors of a 2020 presidential bid, Vince McMahon has some inflammatory comments regarding the new XFL, and more from the past week of TV!

Twitch just set up their next marathon kicking off tonight as the social stream service will present a 10-day event featuring multiple professional wrestling companies and their content. 

You can look forward to seeing more ELEAGUE games being streamed on Twitch as the social streaming service just penned a new deal with the league and Turner to be their official streaming service for tournaments and competitions.

Big news this morning out of Twitch as the company has signed a multi-year partnership with Disney Digital Network (formerly Maker Studios) to bring exclusive content to the social streaming service from four of their biggest content creators.

The lesson to be learned from today's story is that if you're going to spam Twitch, you better be ready to face the consequences beyond banning. The CBC is reporting that a British Columbia resident has been charged with "mischief in relation to computer data".