YouTube Announces a Dedicated Gaming Streaming Service

[6souls]

Coming this Summer

Spoiler: show

As a kid, I spent hours on the living room couch playing video games with friends, taking turns trying to beat Ganon in "Ocarina of Time" and trading Pokémon until I had all 151. Soon controller passing and Game Boy link cables gave way to network multiplayer and PC LAN parties. Eventually, my living room became a virtual one, with a network of gamers sharing experiences and discoveries.

Today, the gaming world is much more diverse than the one I grew up with, and the community has created new formats that have made gaming more collaborative and interactive. On YouTube, gaming has spawned entirely new genres of videos, from let’s plays, walkthroughs, and speedruns to cooking and music videos. Now, it’s our turn to return the favor with something built just for gamers.

This summer, we'll launch YouTube Gaming, a brand new app and website to keep you connected to the games, players, and culture that matter to you, with videos, live streams, and the biggest community of gamers on the web—all in one place.

YouTube Gaming is built to be all about your favorite games and gamers, with more videos than anywhere else. From "Asteroids" to "Zelda," more than 25,000 games will each have their own page, a single place for all the best videos and live streams about that title. You’ll also find channels from a wide array of game publishers and YouTube creators.

Keeping up with these games and channels is now super easy, too. Add a game to your collection for quick access whenever you want to check up on the latest videos. Subscribe to a channel, and you'll get a notification as soon as they start a live stream. Uncover new favorites with recommendations based on the games and channels you love. And when you want something specific, you can search with confidence, knowing that typing “call” will show you “Call of Duty” and not “Call Me Maybe.”

Live streams bring the gaming community closer together, so we’ve put them front-and-center on the YouTube Gaming homepage. And in the coming weeks, we’ll launch an improved live experience that makes it simpler to broadcast your gameplay to YouTube. On top of existing features like high frame rate streaming at 60fps, DVR, and automatically converting your stream into a YouTube video, we’re redesigning our system so that you no longer need to schedule a live event ahead of time. We’re also creating single link you can share for all your streams.

YouTube Gaming will be available this summer, starting in the U.S. and U.K. We’re building this just for gamers—so we want to hear from you about how we can make it the best way to connect with your community.

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2...or-gamers.html
http://youtube.com/e3
http://gaming.youtube.com/
https://twitter.com/youtubegaming

[arus2001]

Gimme a modern day Sega Channel, Google.

[BadKarma]

Amazon gonna have to step their game up now.

[Gwynplaine]

Twitch crafted the perfect comeback zing to Youtube's tweet:

[6souls]

Goes Live sometime Today

A beta version of the new live streaming dashboard is also launching tomorrow. The new dashboard makes streaming less of a scheduled event and more of a casual thing that streamers can do whenever they want. Streaming on YouTube Gaming is done on HTML5, and, unlike Twitch, streamers can enable a "DVR Mode" that buffers the last four hours of a stream and allows viewers to rewind.

Starting tomorrow, YouTube says gaming.youtube.com should work for users "in any country where YouTube is available." The Android phone and tablet app launches tomorrow, too, in the US and UK with "other countries coming soon." The iOS app will be available, and for now everything is English-only.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/0...ches-tomorrow/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...youtube.gaming
http://appstore.com/youtubegaming

Edit: 2 PM ET / 18:00 GMT

[6souls]

Service is live and the first major negative has been discovered. If you have music or film/tv playing in the background, your stream will be terminated.

[Prothescar]

DOA, well done Youtube

[ronin sparthos]

Mmm, copyright slop.

[Kaslo]

Service is live and the first major negative has been discovered. If you have music or film/tv playing in the background, your stream will be terminated.

HAHAHAHAHA

[TheDirtyHobo]

Service is live and the first major negative has been discovered. If you have music or film/tv playing in the background, your stream will be terminated.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Youtube has been able to livestream for quite a while, hasn't it? And the main reason people didn't really use it often was for this specific reason. Why would they even try this rebranding if they didn't change their major flaw?

[The Blackrose]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Youtube has been able to livestream for quite a while, hasn't it? And the main reason people didn't really use it often was for this specific reason. Why would they even try this rebranding if they didn't change their major flaw?

Besides ContentID, the real big flaw was chat. As much of a clusterfuck as it may be, people gotta have their Kappas up next to the stream.

Otherwise, yes, it's been available for a while now.

EDIT: Another thing. Anyone who currently has a partnership with Twitch better be checking their contracts.

[6souls]

I read that the UI is a clusterfuck, but a rep told GAF that it'll change up soon.

[Anoat]

Service is live and the first major negative has been discovered. If you have music or film/tv playing in the background, your stream will be terminated.

I mean...nothing makes me turn off a stream on Twitch faster than someone listening to shitty music. Silver lining?

[Wulfgang]

I mean...nothing makes me turn off a stream on Twitch faster than someone listening to shitty music. Silver lining?

Agreed; not sure why this is a big deal.

[Charismatic]

First off, these things aren't 100% accurate so people will get their streams terminated without actually doing anything wrong. Trust me on that.
That aside, what if some of the game audio (music) for certain games triggers it (wouldn't be the first time).

Its not just "hurr people playing shitty music" that will suffer from this kind system. It sucks.

[Lucavi]

Dude got ContentID'd for singing happy birthday on his.

Lol. RIP.

[Charismatic]

Wow.
RIP.

[6souls]

Happy Birthday song is copyrighted and is owned by Warner Music until 2030.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

[Lucavi]

So yeah, dead on arrival, I hope. They don't need the money anyway.

[Zetanio]

My account got killed for copyrighted music via Spotify. Shitty interface and lame service. Back to Twitch.