THE CURSE APP IS NOW THE TWITCH APP

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Hot on the heels of rolling out its own version of Twitter, called Pulse, video game streaming site Twitch today announced its new desktop application, Twitch Desktop App. This is actually a rebranding of Curse App — an application Twitch acquired from the video game community and software maker Curse last year. Twitch says the now “enhanced” app will include community servers, voice and video messaging and game content distribution.

As part of its rebranding of the Curse app, Twitch says it kept its popular features, like screen sharing, voice and video calling and community server creation.

This the first major Curse-related announcement since Amazon-owned Twitch acquired Curse last year. Twitch was interested in Curse for several reasons: its TeamSpeak competitor that’s the above-mentioned Curse app, as well as its sizable video game communities, which overlapped quite a bit with Twitch’s own.

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Interstellar

Hmm, my Curse App switched over to the Twitch App at least two months ago, is this something new?



Planetary

My Curse updated to twitch like a month ago so its late news.


Planetary

Interesting change! I am tempted to check it out now since i have twith prime X)





Interstellar

I tried Curse in the past when I used to play MMO and the Guilds/Clans required it, but I always preferred using the in-built functionality if it was available. I can't remember why I ultimately stopped using it.

I realize I am in the minority, but I have never enjoyed watching other people play games online when they yammer over it. It's interesting now though that Twitch has become competition for Steam rather than just a place where people stream the games they bought on Steam (and other clients). I'm not likely to switch to it because I have no need for the enhanced streaming capabilities of Twitch, but this will likely be great for Streamers and those wanting to take up streaming because the integration is there already without needing to bridge or link anything.

I'll install it for fun tonight and check it out as I am always willing to try something new, even if I don't stick with it.