Sources speaking to Bloomberg said the cuts could hit up to 500 staff, or 35% of Twitch’s workforce, and could be officially announced today. Twitch began as a game streaming service, but has grown to incorporate many types of live streaming – from reading books to lounging in hot tubs. Despite these changing behaviours, and …
Ofcom said it had “reasonable grounds for believing” that TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may have breached its legal responsibilities. The regulator believes TikTok may have misled it regarding its Family Pairing system, potentially violating the 2003 Communications Act. TikTok’s Family Pairing feature enables parents to link their accounts to their children’s accounts, …
[Updated: Altman, Brockman, and thier colleagues to join Microsoft, announces Satya Nadella]Sam Altman, the ousted OpenAI CEO, is not returning to the company after all. He went to the OpenAI’s office this morning, wearing the guest badge for the “first and last time,” before the board announced the hiring of Emmett Shear, the ex-CEO of …
Sam Altman will not return as the CEO of OpenAI and ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear will become the new interim CEO, The Information reported on Sunday, citing board director Ilya Sutskever’s statement to the company’s staff. Shear co-founded Twitch and had stepped down from the Amazon.com-owned live video streaming platform earlier this year. OpenAI did …
Amazon has cut around 180 jobs from its gaming division. Sources from Reuters, Aftermath and Bloomberg reported on the cuts, which affected the entire Game Growth team and all staff working on Crown, an Amazon-backed Twitch channel. A leaked email reportedly cited a company pivot to refocus resources on growth areas like free monthly games for …
Ecommerce gaint Amazon is cutting more jobs. It is not clear if the job cuts are part of the additional layoffs announced by the company earlier this year. Amazon announced its first round of job cuts in November last year. Since then the company has announced numerous more rounds across divisions. Amazon job cuts have …
Samsung Gaming Hub has debuted for all 2022 Samsung Smart TVs and monitors to let users quickly access Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google Stadia, Utomik, and the Xbox app. The new offering, which was announced at CES 2022 in January, works as an all-in-one game streaming discovery platform to let gamers access multiple cloud services from …
There are quite a few here at Destructoid that are big into anime, so this is for them as well. For a limited time only, Twitch is offering viewers a free trial of Crunchyroll, the hit animation streaming service, for your viewing pleasure. As outlined in a recent Twitch blog post, the Amazon-owned platform is …
Twitch is currently hosting the TwitchCon event in Las Vegas, US. At this event, Amazon-owned video streaming platform has made some major announcements. Amongst them, Twitch has also confirmed that it is getting cross-streaming support on any platform. The company took to social media platforms to announce the feature. Simulcast as Twitch calls it, will …
Twitch will now allow its users to stream concurrently on other live video sites. The announcement was made at in Las Vegas, just as it dropped new . The company emphasized that simulcasting is permitted as long as the “Twitch user experience is not compromised” on other platforms. Back in August, Twitch relaxed its rules …