SOE Joins ZAM For a Landmark Livestream

On Tuesday, July 29th (today!), Sony Online Entertainment's Director of Development, Dave Georgeson, and Landmark Senior Producer, Terry Michaels, will be joining LockSixTime for a Landmark play session livestream! Join us this evening and tune in on the ZAM Twitch TV channel at 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern). See you there!

UPDATE: The recording is now available after the jump, or catch the text highlights here!

Humble Bundle and Twitch Launch E3 Virtual Ticket

Humble Bundle partners with Twitch this year to launch the E3 Digital Ticket and offer exclusive deals on an epic assortment of games, DLC and more.

Twitch Releases E3 Broadcast Schedule

Yesterday, Twitch posted their broadcast schedule for next week's E3 convention. From morning to evening June 9-12 developers will be showing off upcoming or as-of-yet unannounced titles on Twitch's livestream channel. ZAM will be on the scene bringing you coverage of the event all week.

Tropico 5 Launches; Extended Gameplay Video

This afternoon Kalypso Media will release its latest city building simulation title, Tropico 5. It is digitally available worldwide via the Steam store, and also has a retail version hitting the shelves today in many locations (US retail release is June 3rd).

YouTube to Buy Twitch TV?

The gaming community has been left reeling after an article published by Variety reported that Google-owned YouTube was to acquire Twitch for $1 billion.

The ever-growing videogame-streaming site is the most popular of its kind among both streamers and viewers, and reportedly represented "1.35% of all download bandwidth on North American fixed-access broadband networks" in March 2014.

TERA Skyring Slam Livestream This Weekend

TERA: Rising's mega battleground tournament kicks off this weekend on the En Masse Entertainment Twitch TV channel. Watch 32 teams fight it out within the Champions' Skyring during this community fueled event!

WCS Premium Subscription Tickets on Twitch

The premium subscription tickets for World Championship Series are currently available on Twitch! They will give fans of StarCraft II eSports access to the highest quality live stream, as well as subscriber-only chat (when available) and eight unique WCS emoticons. Low, Medium and High quality streams as well as VODs will always be free for all.

Blizzard Stream Awards Announced

Some of the winners for Blizzard's Stream Awards have been announced! The fan-based voters have spoken and ZAM has the scoop on who is taking home some of the $45,000 USD cash pool. Categories range from most favorite new streamer, most educational stream, and best streams that feature Blizzard games. 

Join ZAM & Wargaming for a Warplanes Livestream!

This evening World of Warplanes Senior Producer, Gareth Luke, and Jamie King from Wargaming's PR team will join ZAM contributor Jeffrey "Undestructed" Wright for a livestream session! Make sure you tune in on ZAM's Twitch channel at 5:30pm Pacific Time to see some Warplanes action!

MLG Launches Premium Streaming Service

With another step forward in the growing popularity of eSports, MLG has stepped up to the plate to deliver its own live streaming service, MLG.TV. At a crucial time where the streaming service Twitch hops over to consoles to make streaming easier and more accessible to the masses, MLG enters the foray with a web and mobile streaming outlet that has already seen tremendous growth in the service's pre-launch beta event--the network saw over 1,000 percent growth in media consumption and has been a huge trend in social media avenues in the past few weeks.