YouTube Opens Video Game Floodgates!

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It's alive! YouTube Gaming, a hub that's home to over 25,000 video game pages, on Wednesday began broadcasting live and on-demand streams, let's play videos and the like. The gaming hub is accessible on desktop PCs, and on Android and iOS devices.

YouTube Gaming may be new, but YouTube isn't new to gaming, and the hub is likely to offer a serious challenge to Twitch, the video game streaming service Amazon bought last year.

Now that gamers have a "YouTube citadel," YouTube could be a strong competitor for Twitch. "We expect YouTube's share of livestreaming views to rise significantly. This is especially true with games that have a significant percentage of e-sports videos, such as League of Legends and Call of Duty," noted Thomas Owadenko, CEO of Octoly.