Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50.3% of the watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16.3%
It's been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer …
Meta plans to shutter the Facebook Gaming app on iOS and Android on October 28, 2022, transferring games, content, and groups to the main Facebook app
as Facebook Gaming app is sunsetting, the VP who oversaw the org in the past has recently departed from Meta https://t.co/CAlM4ySGu4 Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : Facebook is closing down Facebook Gam...
Microsoft acquires Two Hat, a content moderation provider that has helped improve Xbox communities for the past few years
although CoMo service providers do have a habit of being acquired by giants, suggesting that this is where smaller platforms may need to go knocking for tech that is otherwise out of reach for them......
Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies
and another feud with Apple Emma Roth / MakeUseOf : Facebook Introduces Free Cloud Gaming Service | MakeUseOf David Pierce / Protocol : Apple fights the future of gaming Andrew Webster / The Verge : F...
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer in August 2019, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site
for real this time Nathan Grayson / Kotaku : Ninja Is Back Exclusively On Twitch Tweets: Eric Feng / @efeng : I can't help but wonder why didn't @Ninja just launch https://ninja.gg/ and go direct to h...
Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek returned to Twitch on Wednesday, following Mixer's shutdown; his return stream attracted ~500K active viewers at its peak
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi on Microsoft shutting Mixer down, Twitch's market power, the need for low latency streaming, and his own startup journey
Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive …
A former Mixer employee who worked at Microsoft for two years before joining the Mixer team in 2018 accuses management of failing to address racism at Mixer
Ian Walker / Kotaku :
Ex-employee, who worked at Microsoft for two years before joining the Mixer team in 2018, accuses management for failing to address alleged racism at Mixer
Over the weekend, former Mixer employee Milan Lee shared a blog describing his experiences with racism while working …
Microsoft to shut Mixer on July 22, move partners and gamers to Facebook Gaming, sell domain names and trademarks to Facebook but retain IP rights to Mixer tech
It's a strategic move for the future of xCloud — Microsoft is closing its Mixer service on July 22nd and plans to move existing partners over to Facebook Gaming.