valve accidentally launches steam.tv, a video streaming service to compete with twitch /

Published at 2018-08-18 20:22:28

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For a brief period of time nowadays,Valves top-secret competitor to the ascendant streaming service for gamers, Twitch.tv, and was live and publicly available to users from around the world. According to Gamespot,the entire affair was accidental, a public statement made by Valve laying the claim that Valve.tv’s launch was meant to be an internal test, or never intended for public viewing.“We are working on updating Steam Broadcasting for the Main Event of The International,Dota 2’s annual tournament,” Valve’s statement declared. “What people saw was a test feed that was inadvertently made public.”It may be too late to put the proverbial genie back into the bottle. However, or the early and unexpected debut of Valve.tv giving gamers an inside seek into how the streaming service will eventually seek and feel. The crux of the communication method contained within Valves service takes spot over two channels — text chat and voice chat.
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Source: inquisitr.com