Trovo, a streaming platform owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent, has seen a surge in new users over the last month. This is due to Russian language content creators leaving Twitch in the wake of international sanctions.

StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg have shared some stats on the Twitch viewership for 2021. Grand Theft Auto V became the most streamed video game, only behind the Just Chatting category.

Popular streamers have refused to take part in the upcoming Genshin Impact event on Twitch. It happened after miHoYo put forward a list of requirements that a lot of content creators found too strict.

Cliff Bleszinski has shared his thoughts on a Twitch leak of popular streamers’ payouts. The Gears of War creator stated that it is sad that game developers are getting significantly less money.

Twitch has been hacked by an anonymous leaker, who revealed its source code, streamers’ payout information, and other data. The leak also includes information about a project codenamed Vapor, which seems to be an in-development Steam competitor.

Twitch announced that it’s introducing new Software & Game Development streaming category to improve the discoverability of content for devs.

Bad luck seems to continue to plague Amazon’s incursions into the gaming space. The Twitch owner has canceled The Lord of the Rings online role-playing game announced in 2019.

Chess streams have never been among the most popular categories on Twitch. However, they reached a new milestone last month — all thanks to the huge success of “The Queen’s Gambit.”

Streamers should pay a percentage of their revenue to the developers and publishers of the games they stream, according to Alex Hutchinson, the Montreal Studio Creative Director of Stadia Games and Entertainment. His words generated thousands of angry comments, and Google representatives quickly distanced the company from the controversial statements.

Yesterday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted she was going to stream Among Us. In a matter of hours, more than 170 thousand people subscribed to her Twitch channel.

With no E3 this year, platform holders and Ubisoft still generated massive viewership numbers on Twitch. In fact, “decentralized announcement events” that big companies had to run this year brought more viewers than E3 2019 did. This is according to Carter Rogers, Principal Analyst at SuperData.

Since at least March, Tencent has been testing a live-streaming platform in the U.S. The new service is called Trovo Live, and, according to Bloomberg, it “closely resembles Twitch in its appearance and functionality.”

Microsoft is shutting down its streaming platform Mixer on July 22. Starting today, the company is beginning to move Mixer partners and streamers to Facebook Gaming.

Amazon is now ready to expand its presence in the video game industry beyond Twitch.

Twich viewership reached 1.2 billion hours in March, which is 23 percent up from February.

GDC is currently streaming virtual talks on Twitch that should have taken place during the offline event this week.

The exclusive livestreaming deal between YouTube and Activision Blizzard, which was announced last month, is valued at $160 million.

Twitch has purchased IGDB, the Internet Games Database, a website that combines the information about games into a comprehensive resource similar to Amazon’s IMDb.

Gears 5 did not become a hit with Steam users or viewers on streaming services. This is very unusual for a AAA title from a major publisher, especially from Microsoft.