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A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch’s CEO in the chat

2025-10-08T10:40:59-04:00

On Tuesday, Twitch streamer Fandy took a break from streaming games like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and League of Legends, to broadcast herself giving birth. The eight-hour-long stream captured the livestreamer going into labor and eventually giving birth to her child inside a small inflatable pool in a living room, as thousands of viewers tuned in, including Twitch CEO Dan Clancy.

"Hi twitter my water just broke so I think I'm going this live. Baby time :)," Fandy wrote on X before starting the livestream. The stream, which garnered more than 50,000 views so far, isn't the first birth streamed on Twitch (or other platforms, for that mat …

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Twitch is making it easy to rewind streams

2025-09-25T14:43:09-04:00

Twitch is launching a feature this week I've wanted for a very long time: the ability to scrub back on a livestream right from a streamer's main channel page. You can already look back at previous parts of livestreams as they're going on by clicking through to the Videos section of a streamer's profile, but it seems like this change will be a much easier way to rewind and see what you missed.

Rewinding will be available first on the web, and initially only for Twitch Turbo subscribers or for channels that you subscribe to individually. Twitch is doing this more limited launch to start because the company needs to make sure that the feature …

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How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2025

2025-07-07T08:32:56-04:00

Grab your grill, your hot dogs, and your sparklers because it's time to celebrate… Summer Games Done Quick 2025. The annual speedrunning charity marathon benefitting Doctors without Borders is back starting July 6th and finishes July 12th. Here's how and most importantly what to watch as you enjoy the reason for the speedrunning season.

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 starts on Sunday July 6th at 1:30 PM ET on Twitch. Games Done Quick's YouTube channel will have VODs up typically within a few short hours after the run completes so don't worry if you miss anything live. There's interesting runs every day during primetime so always check the sc …

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Twitch is getting vertical livestreams

2026-01-26T15:15:36-05:00

Twitch is announcing a bunch of updates at TwitchCon Europe, including the ability to host a vertical livestream and an open beta test that lets creators stream at a higher quality.

The rollout of vertical streams should make livestreams easier to watch in portrait mode on your phone. Down the line, streamers won't be forced to pick between vertical or horizontal streams; instead, Twitch will let streamers offer their streams in a dual format.

"This allows us to better optimize the viewing experience for a device and how a viewer is using that device," Twitch says in a blog post. "Viewers watching on desktop will still see landscape Viewer …

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Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads

2025-02-20T08:27:57-05:00

Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday, the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for highlights and uploads starting on April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit.

Twitch says it's doing this because "Highlights haven't been very effective in driving discovery or engagement," and it isn't worth the cost of storing thousands of hours of such content. Twitch is owned by Amazon, a market-leading cloud storage provider - a detail that hasn't gone unnoticed by streamers critic …

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NASA is going to do a Twitch stream from the ISS

2025-02-06T14:15:54-05:00

Astronaut Don Pettit on the ISS.

NASA is planning to host a live Twitch stream next week from the International Space Station (ISS) - its first from the ISS. The stream, which takes place on February 12th at 11:45AM ET on NASA's Twitch channel, will feature Don Pettit, an astronaut currently on the ISS, and Matt Dominick, who returned to Earth from the ISS in October.

The astronauts will discuss "daily life aboard the space station and the research conducted in microgravity" and viewers will be able to ask them questions, according to a blog post.

"This Twitch event from space is the first of many," Brittany Brown, director of the Office of Communications Digital and Tech …

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Dr Disrespect’s Twitch ban, explained

2025-01-31T08:24:38-05:00

Dr Disrespect — aka Herschel “Guy” Beahm — was one of Twitch’s top streamers until he was suddenly banned in June 2020. Now, we know what happened. As confirmed in a lengthy statement from Beahm himself, he sent private messages on Twitch to a minor that he says “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”:

Were there twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes. Were there real intentions behind these messages, the answer is absolutely not. These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more. Nothing illegal happened, no pictures were shared, no crimes were committed, I never even met the individual.

The statement followed former Twitch employees explaining in social media posts and speaking to The Verge about why Twitch suddenly broke things off with Beahm, which was based on the messages he sent using its now-removed Whispers feature.

Midnight Society, the game studio Beahm co-founded after the ban, has terminated its relationship with the streamer, and accessories company Turtle Beach has also ended its partnership with Beahm.

Here’s the latest news on Dr Disrespect and the reasons for his Twitch ban.

Dr Disrespect’s Midnight Society studio shuts down before releasing its first game

2025-01-31T08:27:18-05:00

Meanwhile, YouTube is allowing Dr Disrespect to remonetize his account.

Midnight Society, the game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect (real name Herschel "Guy" Beahm) has shut down, killing the first-person shooter title it was developing. The studio made "significant" layoffs in September after terminating its relationship with the controversial streamer in June due to "inappropriate" messages he exchanged with a minor.

Within hours of the closure, YouTube, which also took action against Beahm in June by demonetizing his account, decided to reinstate the streamer's ability to make money on Google's video platform. The decision was made after "careful review of the channel's recent activity," YouTube spokesper …

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Get ready for virtual AI cohosts that chat with Twitch stars and control their streams

2025-01-06T23:00:00-05:00

Inworld AI, Streamlabs, and Nvidia are partnering on a new AI assistant for streamers that can provide technical support for streams in real time and even act as a quippy cohost.

As a cohost, the "Intelligent Streaming Assistant" can understand what's happening in games like Fortnite and offer "contextually relevant commentary," according to a press release. "This awareness enables the assistant to do things like highlight a well-timed build, provide commentary during a dramatic Victory Royale, or shoutout audience members for sending tips."

As a producer, the assistant will be able to trigger "audio and visual effects to enhance high-impa …

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Dr Disrespect veers right into Rumble

2024-11-25T13:32:04-05:00

Rumble, the video streaming platform that's become the home for right-wing personalities like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Tim Pool as well as full-throated racists like Nick Fuentes, has a new member joining its ranks: Dr Disrespect. The streamer announced the news via social media and Rumble confirmed it in a press release, stating that the streamer will provide a mix of free and paid content for the platform as well as "acting as an advisor and helping to build the Rumble Gaming community."

The move to Rumble is the latest development in the Dr Disrespect streaming saga that began four years ago. In 2020, Dr Disrespect, whose real n …

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