Access your favorite Twitch live streams for the first time on Windows Phone

Twitch (www.twitch.tv) is a very popular website in the video gaming community. The site is a alive streaming video platform that claims 35 meg viewers each month with the average viewer watching an 60 minutes and a half a day. From casuals to pros, anyone can stream their current gaming session. Windows Phone fans of Twitch will be happy to hear nigh the kickoff unofficial Twitch app in the Store. More than later the interruption.

Then what'south the big bargain with Twitch? It'south a not bad mode for someone to share a alive stream of their video game. You can use Twitch on virtually gaming platforms, doesn't matter if you're slaying BK's in Halo or doing a Zerg blitz in StarCraft. Why would you want to share or spotter a live stream of a game? Well sharing is up to you lot, but typically people watch to learn new play styles from the pros in their favorite games. Twitch Player for Windows Phone allows you access to that world. Hither are some features:

Browse live streams by games or by channels
Play alive streams
Support for multiple resolutions and bitrates
Tape live streams to your phone storage and watch them afterward
Transfer recorded files between your phone and your computers
Files managing director to browse and to manage recorded files in both your phone and your computers
Save play positions for recorded streams and resume playing from saved positions
Application password protection

The app is functional and I found myself enjoying a handful of live game streams the past few days I've been playing with it. I don't have a PS3 but somehow managed to get sucked up into a live stream of The Last of US for twenty minutes or then, looks like a groovy game. Even so, I take been sneaking in some live Halo 4 games here and there. Watching the pros play teaches you a few things and I quickly implemented them into my gameplay. Only that speaks more most Twitch than the app itself.

Then what about Twitch Histrion for Windows Phone? It's good, but not peachy. It's got a solid foundation and can easily become not bad if a few things are tweaked here and there. For example, when browsing the game past game the society is determined by popularity. If the game you want to watch isn't as popular you need to scroll quite a scrap and might miss it. If the app had the option to index lists it would increase usability. The video actor UI could be cleaned up every bit well. For instance the start/end record push button has some iOS gloss, a big no-no in the Windows Phone UI/UX world. To start, the developer should cheque out some of the free icons available from Austin Andrew at Modern UI Icons (www.modernuiicons.com) that would be great here. Yous also can't sign into your account or search for users/channels, but from what I've read on the web that's a limitation of the Twitch API and not really the developers.

Those little niggles aside the app is proficient. You can browse past channel or game, I recommend using the game browse since you'll take better luck finding content you desire to picket. In one case yous find your game and a stream that looks interesting the experience is solid. I streamed the app over both WiFi and LTE and information technology started up in a handful of seconds after buffering, which is cool because yous can adjust the buffer size in the settings amongst a variety of tweaks for default video quality. What's also cool is y'all can start recording alive streams and salve them to your device. From where you can transfer to your PC or difficult bulldoze.

Twitch Player is available for both Windows Phone 7.10 and viii devices. There'due south a trial that limits how long you lot can view a stream before it asks you to buy. The app itself costs $1.99, so do the trial and see how it works for you before departing with 2 dollar bills. If y'all're into Twitch you really can't go wrong since this is the simply app like it bachelor on Windows Telephone right now. Grab it here in the Store, use the QR code below, or swipe to the right in our app.

Thanks for the tip JD!

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