This week we are joined by the fabulous T.L. Taylor as we talk about E-Sports, live streaming, and her new book Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming.
Twitch
11 posts
Representation matters. This is something that we have said countless times. It matters in games, in game development teams, in games communities, and in the world at large (especially in our current political environment). Over the course of the last couple of months we have spent several podcast episodes talking […]
Episode 151: Coming Together Over Streams: A Conversation with Justin Clark (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, BlogTalk Radio, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week in the podcast we are joined by Twitch streamer Justin Clark (Twitch & Twitter: TrueZeldaFan) as we talk about the culture of streaming, why he […]
Last night I had the worst experience playing what will probably be one of the best games released this year, Inside by Playdead. For those of you who haven’t played the game yet I’ll try to be as unspoilery as possible. Inside is from Playdead, the maker of the 2010 puzzle platformer […]
Spring (May) 2016: Gaming Marathon On Saturday, May 7, 2016 we are hosting our third Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen the Flint Child Health and Development Fund (FCHDF) as our charity. The FCHDF was created to support the delivery of critical public health, medical, and community-based services […]
I actually like to stream when I play games. I do it so that I can play games with friends and strangers even when I am playing a single player game or sitting at home in my game room all by myself. So doing streaming marathons to raise money for […]
NYMG is by no means new to streaming on Twitch and we’re certainly not new to talking about it. (Sarah’s mentioned her own plights as a woman streaming here and Alex comments on her love for the gaming community in Twitch here); I, however, I’m just getting my feet wet. […]
This weekend we ran our 24 hour streaming Mammothon to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. On Saturday many of our staff members and our families played a lot of games and talked about them and to our audiences for what we consider a great cause. This streaming […]
“Twitch reveals itself to be a perfect witness of events happening over the video game industry and community” (Kautoue et. al.) As NYMG begins its new venture, Gaming for Good, I started thinking more about the importance Twitch and other streaming platforms in the new emerging social fabric of games. […]
Do you frequently play games online in multiplayer mode? When you play online, do you use a mic to communicate to other players? According to a report entitled “Teens, Technology and Friendships” released by the Pew Research Center, if you’re a teenage girl, the answer to both of these questions […]
The very first time I tried my hand at streaming I was hit on. I had just returned from GameStop with my just-purchased gaming headset – I had never really seen the need for one before as I rarely game online – and was a bit giddy to get started […]