What was interesting in the past week? Streams Charts tells what happened in the world of streaming from 22 to 26 February in a news digest format.
Twitch:
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has partnered with Twitch. According to the terms of the contract, FIBA will broadcast about 600 hours of basketball matches per year on the platform.
The American company Dunkin' Donuts has become an official partner of Twitch Rivals North America. New features are expected to appear on broadcasts soon: Dunkin' Challenge (special Twitch extension that allows viewers to predict outcome of events and competitions) and Dunkin' Runs (format is not clear for now, but the company mentioned that streamers will “run around the donut ”).
EA hosted the Gayming Awards, which honored the LGBTQIA + community, including game creators and even game characters. The event was broadcast exclusively on Twitch. Hades was named Game of the Year by the jury and viewers, and indie developer Robert Yang won the Gaming Icons award.
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Upcoming Twitch Rivals Events:
Twitch Rivals: CS:GO Showdown LATAM - February 27
Twitch Rivals Chess.com Hand & Brain Showdown - March 3rd. The main feature of the tournament is that famous chess players will unite with top streamers. The chess player will choose a piece, and the streamer will determine its position on the chessboard.
Trovo:
The platform has entered into a partnership with the Restream service, which allows broadcasting on several platforms simultaneously. To get a 30% discount on the Restream platform, use the promo code TROVOCHAT30.
Trovo partnered with Call of Duty: Mobile Mobile Mayhem team and the Latin American League of Legends league (LLA).
Achievements of streamers on Twitch:
We have highlighted content makers (and not only) who reached a certain amount of followers on the platform or set a record in terms of their statistics this week. Thus, the Real Madrid football club reached 100K followers, and Christian Vieri, Italian football legend, set a new record by peak viewers.
Snifferish — 100К followers
RealMadrid — 100К followers
HutchMF — 100К followers
JeremyFrieser — 100К followers
joeygraceffa — 100К followers
Caliverse — 100К followers
HashtagTom_ — 100К followers
saniye — 100К followers
Varvaria — 100К followers
PainLivestream — 500К followers
VarsityGaming — 500К followers
PAGO3 — 500К followers
New records:
PurpleBixi — 22K Peak Viewers
TheLivia — 29K Peak Viewers
ChristianVieriOfficial — 33K Peak Viewers
Jahrein — 88K Peak Viewers
Games:
Tencent has announced a new game — PUBG: New State for mobile devices on Android and iOS. The release will take place till the end of the year, and now you can sign up for the version for Android.
Ubisoft announced the third season of HyperScape. It will feature a redesigned NeoArcadia 2.0 map, new story chapters and items. The third season of Shadow Rising starts on March 11, but you can check out the trailer for now.
Square Enix has announced a remake of Final Fantasy VII called Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis. The game will be split into episodes and feature both the original storyline and the Before Crisis, Crisis Core, and Dirge of Cerberus spin-offs. The release date is scheduled for 2022.
Besides, we should wait for a new battle royale for mobile devices that will be done regarding the seventh part of the series.
On February 25, Sony held a State of Play presentation, which presented many new projects. Read more in this article.
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