

Mixer’s biggest lure, reports The Verge, is its integration with “Xbox One and Windows dashboards” and the fact it allows amateur streamers as well as professional ones, providing ways for them to make money.

YouTube Gaming is the other competition to Twitch and Mixer. In 2019, The Verge reported that Ninja was moving from Twitch to Mixer, a site that still doesn’t have the same name recognition. I come for the entertainment not the URL,” wrote another. “Yes money is involved, but true fans follow, having a extra tab up is easily done. Ninja called Shroud’s Streaming Move ‘a Massive Move’ for the Mixer PlatformĪ post shared by Michael Grzesiek on at 11:33am PDT In addition to the games listed by Yahoo Entertainment, he plays things like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Fortnite, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, GameSpot reported. GameSpot describes how Shroud started by playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professionally, and retired from that in 2018 with nearly 13 billion minutes watched. Welcome ?” and prominently displayed the countdown to Shroud’s first stream on its home page.Īccording to Yahoo Entertainment, Shroud is an esports streamer whose streams include games like Minecraft and Apex Legends he had 6.5 million followers on Twitch, which is second on the site.

Streaming is better this way.” Mixer’s Twitter page wrote, “The Mixer Community grows. Mixer describes itself as “Home to a unique community of gamers, creators, draw-ers, music-ers, and do-ers.

Here’s an embed of Shroud’s video stream: I am excited to join the Mixer community, as well as continue to build relationships with both players and fans.” “Mixer provides the flexibility to center my attention around them. “Streaming is my passion and I owe my success to my fans who have helped me get to where I am now,” Shroud said in a press release, according to GameSpot. After that, read about the painful consequences Mixer's abrupt end brought to many different streamers.Same shroud. For more, read about Shroud's original move from Twitch to Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer, and then read about Ninja's similar journey through streaming platforms. The streamer is a former professional CS:GO player, but has since moved on to streaming games other than CS:GO, such as the previously mentioned, popular Riot Games-developed Valorant. Shroud, fortunately for him, was able to retain his original Twitch account and his 7 million followers. There's no word as to how long Shroud plans to stream on his big day back to Twitch but it's easy to imagine that it will be quite long considering it's been nearly a year since he's streamed on the site. Welcome home, /tNuC2Nd元0- Twitch AugHis Twitch has been live for about an hour and his concurrent numbers continue to hover around mid-400,000. Yesterday, he tweeted out the word "tomorrow" followed by "11AM PST." At that time today, Twitch put out the following video. Then, on July 30, he tweeted out a gif that appeared to tease his logo. After Mixer's shutdown in June, he said he was "figuring out (his) next steps" before going dark on socials for over a month. Shroud had been hinting at his return for the past couple of days. At the time of this writing, he has 465,000 viewers and the number continues to rise as he plays Valorant.
