Perhaps, in lieu of its very public mishandling of Mixer (formerly known as Beam), Microsoft may be intentionally playing down the recent acquisition of eSports networking platform Smash. Quietly Wednesday afternoon, Smash updated its website to read: Smash.gg has been ... Read more
Microsoft news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read! Microsoft’s Mixer video game streaming service ends today as streamers say their final farewells ... Read more
A new line of official Xbox clothes have appeared on the Xbox Gear online store and they’re pretty damn cool. Branded as Xbox Elite, these new products (see above image) have been designed in collaboration with Meta Threads and they’re ... Read more
With today being Mixer’s final day online, Facebook is swooping in with a special Facebook Gaming event for those streamers who have migrated over to the platform. Starting on July 24th and running through to the 26th, Facebook Gaming will ... Read more
The day is finally here. Sometime today, on the 22nd of July 2020, Microsoft’s Mixer streaming service will cease to function and go offline. As of the time of this writing, the Mixer website is still up and a surprising ... Read more
The Xbox One July 2020 Update has now removed the Mixer app from the console, and you won't be able to start streaming games on Mixer from the Xbox Guide either.
Ninja chose YouTube Gaming as the first platform to stream on after Mixer transitions streamers and fans to Facebook Gaming.
Ninja may find the transition from Mixer to YouTube Gaming a much easier move than to Facebook Gaming or his even his old home at Twitch given the way the two left things.
I wish everyone knew the numbers. I wish everyone knew all the inputs into this decision.
Last week, Microsoft announced that the company would be shutting down its Mixer streaming service next month. While most people were aware that Mixer wasn’t garnering the same high level of activity as its rivals, the sudden, and seemingly random, ... Read more
Microsoft news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read! Microsoft is closing its retail stores across the world and taking a $450M write-off ... Read more
Despite Facebook’s bad reputation, the company could be a great partner for bringing Microsoft’s Project xCloud game streaming service in front of more eyeballs.
With the recent announcement that Microsoft’s Mixer video game streaming service would be closing next month and a strong push for streamers to jump over to Facebook Gaming, many Xbox One owners naturally began to wonder if a Facebook Gaming ... Read more
Xbox head Phil Spencer said on Twitter today that "we absolutely want to give gamers choice of where to stream from Xbox.”
For anyone who rode the Windows Phone to Windows Mobile to eventually iOS or Android train, today's news feels all too familiar.
If Microsoft is one of the few big tech companies that made big efforts to become more inclusive in recent years, the company’s Mixer game streaming may be darkening the picture with serious allegations of racism coming from employees, as well as sexual misconduct coming from streamers.
Microsoft news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read! How low can it go? Data shows Mixer rarely gets more than 70K concurrent ... Read more
Microsoft has been trying for years to compete with Twitch and other video game streaming services, but the company’s Mixer platform seems to be getting nowhere.
Microsoft continues to add more gamer merch to their online Xbox Gear storefront with today’s addition of new collectible Xbox controller pins and a variety of Xbox and Mixer products celebrating Pride Month. The pins (see below) are rather cool ... Read more
Microsoft’s Mixer app updated to Version 5.4.0 on both iOS and Android devices today. This latest update adds the ability to download clips from the mobile app, better clip navigation, and improved moderation tools for chat. Here’s the full release ... Read more
In response to everything going on in the United States at the moment, Microsoft’s video game streaming service, Mixer, has announced that they’ll be making stickers/emotes that celebrate Black and African streamers a permanent fixture within their stream chats, changing ... Read more