14 DAY TRIAL // Huge video sharing website YouTube has confirmed at GDC 2013 that it's going to focus more on offering different solutions to developers that want to incorporate live streaming into their titles.
Video game live streaming may have started out as a novel way of sharing gameplay footage with others but through services like Twitch, it's become a great way to showcase games and many game developers have started adding support for live streaming directly within their titles.
Now, YouTube is apparently much more interested in this avenue and has confirmed at GDC 2013 that new systems and APIs (application programming interfaces) will be offered to developers.
These methods will allow for the game to send footage directly to YouTube which will then encode it and transmit it not only online to computers but also to mobile apps for Android or iOS.
What's more, the systems also allow content creators to schedule breaks into their stream in order to show still images or even ads that generate revenue.
As of yet, according to The Verge, YouTube hasn’t confirmed when it's going to roll out these new services.