Earlier this year, Google announced that it will be playing a bigger role in the gaming market. To complete with Amazon-owned Twitch, the company announced a new YouTube spinoff called YouTube Gaming.


On August 26, the company has launched the website that will feature more than 25,000 pages for different games.While you're watching a stream, YouTube Gaming looks more like a Netflix-style video service (or YouTube's mobile app) than its vanilla counterpart does, though the components are similar: you can see comments on the side, give a streamer a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and subscribe to their work.

Even though Twitch has a complete dominance over the game live streaming for some time now, YouTube Gaming has the potential to become a serious threat to Twitch’s dominance. The service will also have iOS and Android apps.

As the website is dedicated to gaming, typing a phrase won’t give suggestion from movies and songs. During livestreams, the viewer can also chat with others and the creators can monitor the comments from the app. Each gaming stream will have a custom and easily-shareable URL and the videos will stream at 60fps.