Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Twitch

July 2024

  • When I was asked to write this column, I did the normal amount of research and read every single previous piece in preparation’: Bec Petraitis.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Bec Petraitis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    The Twitch streamer and comedian curated her list by scrolling back to 2020 in her TikTok likes. Some call it objective research, others call it retina damage

January 2024

  • Google headquarters in California

    Google lays off 1,000 workers, union says

  • Amazon has spent aggressively in recent years to bolster its media business.

    Amazon to lay off hundreds from Twitch and Prime Video

August 2023

  • A female gamer streams to Twitch

    Twitch to provide new blocking powers to combat online abuse

  • Police form a line as they struggle to hold back the crowds gathered for the giveaway.

    NYPD officers detain online influencer after giveaway devolves into chaos

July 2023

  • TwitchCon Paris, 2023.

    ‘We’ve created this beautiful community’: how Covid changed video game streaming for ever

    In 2020, people of all ages and backgrounds were suddenly stuck at home, with many turning to streaming platforms to connect with their peers – transforming toxic spaces into inclusive environments
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    No, I didn’t imagine it – the ‘NPC’ craze really offers money for robotic gibberish

    Arwa Mahdawi
    People online pretend to be jerky video-game characters – and some make tons of money doing it. What on earth?
  • A man prays at a memorial at the scene of the shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

    Meta, Amazon, Google played a part in radicalizing Buffalo shooter, suit alleges

    The suit, filed by victim’s relatives, says big tech bears responsibility for exposing the gunman to racist content

June 2023

  • The Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

    I tried to explain the ZX Spectrum to my son. It didn’t go well

    Dominik Diamond
    The parents of the home computer gamers of the 1980s presumably hoped we’d become programmers or accountants, but instead their kids ended up like me

May 2023

  • Stephen Flavall, AKA Jorbs.

    ‘Everyone encounters some kind of abuse’: Stephen ‘Jorbs’ Flavall speaks out on the dark side of Twitch streaming

    In his new memoir, Before We Go Live, the Twitch and YouTube star pulls back the curtain on the world of pro game streaming – and details some of the toxic behaviour he says he has witnessed

February 2023

  • PowerWash Simulator Tomb Raider.

    Help, I’m obsessed with pressure-washing Lara Croft’s house

    Ellie Gibson
    I started playing a video game about cleaning for a laugh – now it’s all gotten out of hand and I’m going for the Guinness World Record

October 2022

  • Twitch, long synonymous with streaming, has rubbed creators the wrong way in recent months.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Twitch and the dark side of the streaming dream

  • Chess piece illustration

    Cheating, groupies, big money and drunken brawls: how chess went rock’n’roll

September 2022

  • A gamepad is pictured as a screen displays the online Twitch logo

    Twitch to ban users from streaming unlicensed gambling content

    Move by Amazon-owned site apparently prompted by revelations popular streamer scammed fellow users

June 2022

  • Retro arcade games in Tokyo.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: Your favourite games to watch other people play

    In this week’s newsletter: from pure escape watches to gripping adventures, my fellow backseat gamers on titles that are as good to view as to play

May 2022

  • ‘These are now trillion dollar companies. How is it that their hashing technology is so bad?’

    ‘A catastrophic failure’: computer scientist Hany Farid on why violent videos circulate on the internet

    ‘Hashing’ would allow copies of videos to be removed from social media – but tech companies can’t be bothered to make it work
  • Letitia James speaks at a microphone.

    New York to investigate social media platforms used by Buffalo shooter

    Letitia James said that her office is targeting Twitch, 4chan, 8chan and Discord which were all used to amplify the attack
  • FBI agents look at bullet impacts in a Tops grocery store window in Buffalo, New York, on 15 May, the day after a gunman shot dead 10 people

    Online hate under scrutiny after Buffalo shooter streamed massacre on Twitch

    Analysis: Call for social media firms to be held accountable for violent racist views ‘spreading like a virus’

March 2022

  • A scene from The Witcher 3

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit

  • Podcasters are a key plank of the ‘Creator Economy’.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: want to ‘be your own boss’ online? Here’s why it’s not so simple

About 80 results for Twitch
1234
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：