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Blizzard, Facebook team up for live video streaming; Rival Twitch, YouTube Gaming [Watch]

By Maureen Blas | Aug 28, 2016 04:05 AM EDT
Visitors try out the massively multiplayer online role-playing game 'World Of Warcraft' at the Blizzard Entertainment stand at the Gamescom 2016 gaming trade fair during the media day on August 17, 2016 in Cologne, Germany.
(Photo : Getty Images/Sascha Schuermann) Visitors try out the massively multiplayer online role-playing game 'World Of Warcraft' at the Blizzard Entertainment stand at the Gamescom 2016 gaming trade fair during the media day on August 17, 2016 in Cologne, Germany.

Blizzard Entertainment gives its loyal gamers the more reason to be happy with playing its multiple games as it works together with Facebook to make the gameplay streaming possible on Facebook Live.

The collaboration between Blizzard and Facebook was initially announced in June where its service is limited as of the moment to PC gamers located in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the US. The game developer is managing to stretch to other platforms and countries. Blizzard games include "Overwatch" and "Heroes of the Storm" to name a few.

The live-streaming on Facebook starts today and just a portion of wider assimilation of the social network. Blizzard also revealed that a Facebook login option will be integrated for all of its PC games as means to prepare new social performance in Blizzard games, as reported by The Verge.

Gamers are now capable of streaming directly to Facebook from their Battle.net client which makes the entire procedure a breeze and streamlined. They could as well stream to Facebook Pages that they carry out and not just basically profiles. 

However, there are some obstacles dealing with the new service since not every gamer certainly want to stream exactly to their Facebook feeds. Want to know the reason? Feeds are frequently congested with colleagues and relatives.

The competition regarding video game streaming is going to be a hot battle. At this time, Twitch still wears the crown when the subject is about live video game streaming. However, between YouTube Gaming and Facebook Live, there will be an upcoming game streaming triangle steeplechase, according to Forbes.

In order to access streaming, just connect your Battle.net account to Facebook. The short video below with step by step instructions could help gamers to stream their favorite games.

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