![]() When the new Twitch Desktop App launches into beta later this month, it will be available from. Twitch was interested in Curse for several reasons: its TeamSpeak competitor that’s the above-mentioned Curse app, as well as its sizable video game communities, which overlapped quite a bit with Twitch’s own. This the first major Curse-related announcement since Amazon-owned Twitch acquired Curse last year. Both Apple and Google do not allow this even if we could make this technically happen, doing so would mean that our app would not be accepted in the store. The desktop application will serve as a game library for these purchases, as well as a place for add-ons and mods that automatically update. The app will also later offer the ability to download game purchases from Twitch, when game sales go live later this spring - Twitch’s new e-commerce push, announced in February. This includes Friends, Whispers (private chat) and activity sharing (to see when friends are streaming, what they’re watching or playing a game). It then added Twitch’s own feature set on top, including its social offerings. ![]() This will be streamed from /TwitchPresents, the site’s new home for its TV marathons.Ĭombined, these efforts are meant to give gamers a reason to stay on the site and continue to engage with its content, even when the video game streams they came to see have ended.Īs part of its rebranding of the Curse app, Twitch says it kept its popular features, like screen sharing, voice and video calling and community server creation. It also has dabbled with streaming non-gaming video content, including shows from Bob Ross, Julia Child and Amazon Prime Video, and, as of March 14, it’s adding the Power Rangers to that mix with an 831-episode marathon. The company has also rolled out other social features, like Communities, which focus on gamers’ shared interests - including those that extend beyond video games IRL, which lets vloggers host broadcasts to directly talk with fans and Twitch Creative, where broadcasters can show off artistic endeavors, whether or not they’re directly related to gaming. The most notable being this week’s launch of Pulse, a Twitter-like social stream right on the homepage that lets users share updates, including text and multimedia from services like Vimeo, YouTube, Imgur and Gfycat, as well as Twitch. ![]() The launch, which is scheduled for March 16, 2017, follows several recent moves aimed at giving Twitch more of a social networking feel. It also is further representation of how Twitch is re-imagining itself as more than just a place to watch live video - it’s working to become more of a true social network. One of the larger goals with Twitch Desktop App is to give streamers’ followers a place to connect, even when the streamer is offline. Twitch says the now “enhanced” app will include community servers, voice and video messaging and game content distribution. This is actually a rebranding of Curse App - an application Twitch acquired from the video game community and software maker Curse last year. You can start a Twitch stream, activate the dark mode, and use the Twitch chat just as usual. In 2021, the platform saw a 45% increase in hours watched, with a total of 24 billion views.Hot on the heels of rolling out its own version of Twitter, called Pulse, video game streaming site Twitch today announced its new desktop application, Twitch Desktop App. From here on now, it’ll look like the standard site on iOS. Despite the loss of so many big names, users still flock to Twitch to watch streams. ![]() Some of its top streamers, including Ludwig, TimTheTatman, DrLupo, Valkyrae, and others have left the platform to stream exclusively on YouTube. While Twitch shutting down its desktop app likely isn’t some kind of grim omen for the company, Twitch has found itself bleeding talent lately. Browsers typically use more RAM in computers (especially for Google Chrome users) than independent apps do. Later in the email, Twitch urges desktop app users to start watching streams through browsers, though it’s clear why some avoided that option in the first place. On a page going over how to detail the desktop app, Twitch said that the decision to drop it all together “allows us to invest more heavily in enhancing and adding new ways to engage with the creators and communities you care about.”
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