Game Streaming
YouTube Throws The Gauntlet to Twitch, Announces Youtube Gaming
YouTube today announced YouTube Gaming, a brand new website and app to directly compete with Twitch, consolidating all the gaming videos and streams in one place under one banner. It will launch this summer in UK and US, and will later be rolled out for the rest of the world. Since this is a dedicated gaming focused site, recommendations and search algorithms will be tailored for gamers. Besides which there are niceties like 60FPS live streams and sorting streams according to games. YouTube is also set to set up a separate link for all the streams it will host. Do you see this replacing Twitch from the King of All Streams throne anytime soon? Do drop a comment down below and tell us what you think.
NVIDIA reveals Gamestream
NVIDIA announced Gamestream this morning, an initiative aimed at pairing the company’s GPUs with streaming gaming via its Shield handheld game console. Company head Jen-Hsun Huang says the service takes NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software and pairs it with NVIDIA GPUs and the Shield to push streaming gaming to the living room. Huang said Gamestream’s first stop is a re-branding of the Shield’s streaming tech — sounds like that PC streaming tech on Shield is coming out of beta. But Huang’s not stopping there: he pulled NVIDIA’s Ujesh Desai on-stage, and he showed Shield powering PC game streaming on a nearby LG 4K television. “What makes Gamestream special is the low-latency of it,” Huang said. Desai used a Nyko wireless controller that...