Comedians, DJs, and other performers are online bringing activities to cooped-up families, says Ciara McDonnell.

For years, TV executives have fretted there is too much TV. Now, with the coronavirus looming large, they are worried there might not be enough.

Twitch will no longer be the home of esports for Call of Duty, Overwatch and Hearthstone, with those games (and more) going to YouTube instead.

A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack that was livestreamed on a popular gaming site.

You might block someone on Twitter, but have you ever shut out a game? That’s what happened to us with Roblox — while we were ignoring it, Roblox has quietly become the world’s most popular game. As of this month, there are 100 million active users, making it more popular than both Minecraft and Fortnite.

There can only be one. Highlander may have coined the phrase, but Fortnite has owned it. On Sunday, it was the high ground (not the highland) that won the day, with a peerless performance by 16-year-old Kyle Giersdorf, better known as Bugha, crowning him World Champion.

Kickstarter has something of a stained reputation. For every Pillars of Eternity, there is a Mighty No 9. For every success story, there is a cautionary tale.

There are only two more rounds to go in the Fortnite World Cup qualifying round, with entry to the $30m July finals up for grabs.

What are a few hours playing video games and a handful of tweets worth? $1m (€887,000), if you are Tyler Blevins, known to millions as Ninja, the world’s most-followed computer-gamer.

Because everyone I meet is more digitally adept than me (Tumblr? Twitch? Are you making these up?) I need to hang on to my occasional victories.

Live streaming video platform Twitch will soon open a digital gaming store containing PC video game titles and downloadable content.

FERDI Roberts isn’t a conventional Irishman — but he does approve of conventions. 

Watch Dogs came out in 2014 and was technically impressive but kind of left out a bit of the fun of playing video games. Watch Dogs 2 is all about correcting that.

Ireland will feature as a stop in the Capcom Pro Tour in September, which will see some of the best Street Fighter V players in Europe competing for precious ranking points.

SONIC the Hedgehog is a prickly subject. Not only does he elicit terrible puns from video game writers, he does so while dividing opinion quicker than a ghostbuster with boobs. 

NOT enough games are set in the ocean, writes Ronan Jennings. (It adds a lot of depth.) 

Tumblr looks set to become the latest site to offer live video with a launch planned this week.

Microsoft is ready to go big for E3 2016 and their press conference starts at 5.30pm Irish time on Monday the 13th of June, 2016.

DICE will unveil the new Battlefield game tonight from 9pm BST, and you can watch the entire thing right here. The main event will be live streamed on Twitch tonight.

If you've ever wanted to capture your gaming footage and edit it together, this latest Elgato box will make it easier than ever before

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Forced Showdown, an upcoming deck-building meets twin stick combat game from BetaDwarf, will take an interesting approach to its launch price. Essentially, the price will be dictated by how many people watch pre-launch streams of the game on Twitch.

Amazon makes TV shows, streams music oh and delivers millions of items to people around the world. Now it makes game engines, for some reason.

Rayman is 20 years old this year. Coming from someone who remembers the first outing of the armless wonder back in 1995, that's a bit alarming.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is out in the States now and the reviews are mostly positive for the return of Lara Croft.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

So YouTube Gaming launched a while back, essentially like Twitch but owned by Google instead of Amazon and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel did a sketch saying that watching people playing games was stoopid. The spelling is like that on purpose.

IT’S been a long time since video killed the radio star. 

Project Bluestream begat The Shattering which has now gone and begotten... LawBreakers.

Dark Souls is a notoriously difficult game, but Twitch streamer bearzly who is not only exceptional at the game but a sucker for punishment too has been it using his voice.

Sony Mobile has announced a partnership with Twitch, which will let you broadcast your gaming action from your Xperia device.

WHAT do Steven Spielberg, JK Rowling, Paul McCartney and Allan Alcorn have in common?

Amazon is hiring game developers with 26 positions open for its “ambitious new PC game project.”

Not so very long ago, just having decent video on the intenet was considered a big deal. Today though, it's all about live streaming.

Mods are a big part of the reason why PC gaming is so great. But occasionally, someone takes advantage of how widespread they can get to slip some malicious code in unbeknownst to those who download it.

The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red has been trying to scrub the internet of leaked footage after a retailer sold the game a week early.

Cities: Skylines, the city building game from Colossal Order, passed one million copies sold since March 10th, according to publisher Paradox Interactive.

Everyone says they want their video games to be more realistic, but one online player got more than he bargained for when a SWAT team burst into the office he was playing in.