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It’s been four years since the Nintendo Switch was initially launched and it finally caught up to all the current-gen consoles yesterday when a certain app got added to the console.

That’s right, Twitch has finally made it onto the Nintendo Switch!

Switching it up with Twitch

The streaming platform arrived to the Nintendo eShop somewhat unexpectedly and was announced on the Twitch Twitter account.

Put a little purple in your Nintendo Switch.

Download the Twitch App from the Nintendo eShop today.

More info: https://t.co/cFN1QW45FE pic.twitter.com/AQTMotxAaf

— Twitch (@Twitch) November 11, 2021

The Twitch app allows Switch users to browse and watch live streams in handheld, tabletop or TV modes! You’re able to access live streams straight away when you access the app so you don’t need a Twitch account to watch live streams, however, it makes the experience better.

Why not give it a go on your Switch console now and find our very own Twitch channel, Go2Games.

Nintendo Switch isn’t known for its non-gaming software. The only other video streaming apps that are featured on the handheld console are YouTube, Hulu, and Funimation.

Sadly. Twitch on Switch is strictly for viewing pleasure only so users will be unable to create content from the app. If you want to stream your Nintendo Switch games to Twitch, you will still need to route the video through a PC if you are more interested in the creating side of things.

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Xbox’s video game subscription is about to get more interesting for anime fans…

Microsoft has announced a surprising, yet exciting collaboration for its video game streaming service, Xbox Game Pass. It is offering its subscribers a 75-day free trial with the anime subscription giant, Crunchyroll.

That’s right, 75 days of anime. For free.

Xbox x Crunchyroll

The promotion is on offer to all of those subscribed to the platform’s mega fan tier, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Players will be able to watch 1000s of anime from Crunchyroll’s library without ads and with the ability to watch with offline viewing, or be able to stream content on 4 devices at the same time.

However, subscribers only have until February 8 2022 to be able to take advantage of this offer. It is also only available to new Crunchyroll customers so if you already have a Crunchyroll subscription, you are sadly not applicable for the 75-day free trial. The trial is also set to auto-renew so make sure to keep an eye out for when the subscription is activated.

There are plenty of titles on offer for you to choose from such as One Piece, which is gearing up for its 1000th episode, or Jujutsu Kaisen which has received a trailer for its upcoming movie release recently, or better yet, you could wait until Attack on Titan: The Final Season starts and use the 75-day free trial to watch that anticipated finale.

It’s certainly an interesting move from Crunchyroll to be teaming up with Xbox Game Pass since Sony recently bought the anime streaming company for $1.175 billion from its previous owner, AT&T. Yet Sony’s competition with Microsoft for its consoles clearly comes second here and the quest to get more people subscribed to Crunchyroll takes priority.

Yet fear not PlayStation players. Thanks to Sony’s acquisiton, PlayStation’s own video game subscription service also offers a premium tier which includes a Crunchyroll subscription alongside.

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Starting this week, new YouTube Premium members can get access to a 3 month free trial for Google’s gaming platform

Google is trying to convince more people to subscribe to their YouTube Premium service by tying in a new incentive for gamers.

The technology giants are offering 3 months free to all Youtube Premium subscribers for their subscriber gaming platform, Stadia Pro. Users will be able to have access to all the games available on the gaming platform, two months longer than Stadia’s own free trial.

Stadia Pro

New YouTube Premium subscribers will be able to claim this offer until January 31st 2022 and have until February 14th 2022 to redeem it.

There are a few catches to this deal, of course, noted in Google’s fine print.

If you cancel the subscription at any time, you will lose the games you claimed access to with your Stadia Pro subscription and any add-on or expansion content you have purchased or claimed for those games, however, if you re-subscribe all this content will be restored.

The offer is only available in the following countries:

• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Romania
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United States
• United Kingdom

It is worth noting that having Stadia Pro gives users the benefits of a game library and higher resolution video quality for the games that are available to stream. At the moment, some of the games available to stream on Stadia Pro include the classic games Hitman and Killer Queen Black, along with the indie game Floor Kids and Little Nightmares 2. Newer releases tend to be only available to purchase outright, yet Stadia Pro subscribers receive discounts too.

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Google’s Youtube looks set to launch rival to Amazon owned streaming Service Twitch.

It is no secret that YouTube’s owners Google failed in there bid to acquire Twitch last year, being beaten to the post by Amazon’s 970 million pound offer. With global video game streaming audiences continuing to grow YouTube Gaming’s product manager Alan Joyce feels the time is right for a more dedicated outlet for gaming as a whole, in the hope of sharing some of Twitch’s recent successes. In his most recent blog post Joyce said;

“On YouTube, gaming has spawned entirely new genres of videos, from let’s plays, walkthroughs, and speedruns to cooking and music videos. Now, it’s our turn to return the favour with something built just for gamers.”

Youtube is promising 25,000 gaming portals, bringing together all activity of each gaming title,  then fencing it off from the rest of YouTubes mass of content allowing seamless search, browsing and viewing of content.

With twitch already clocking up over 12 billion game streaming hours a month on it’s platform along with the allure of advertising revenue this looks set to be an almighty content based battle!

Youtube Gaming will comprise of a new dedicated site and app which is set to launch in the US and UK this summer.

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