Blizzard Streaming is now live as a small update patch hit the Battle.net engine yesterday. This would be the company’s primal venture into the world of live streaming of games.
This is the result of the deal between Blizzard Entertainment and Facebook which will now allow players of Blizzard games like Overwatch, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 to live stream their game almost effortlessly over Facebook.
The press release from blizzard read, “Once you’ve updated your Blizzard Client on PC, simply click the stream button, use Facebook Login to allow permission for Blizzard to post to Facebook, and you can stream your gameplay! Mac support for Blizzard Streaming is coming soon.”
The feature is currently available at Americas, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The company’s press release has stated that it will soon be available worldwide.
The new feature allows users to play around with the settings like enabling webcam or microphone and choosing the audience before jumping into streaming games on Facebook. Users can also stream the content over pages that they own as the feature is not restricted to profiles.
It is quite evident that Facebook is putting more and more efforts to blend in to the gaming scene, recently it was revealed that the social media giant is creating a gaming platform with Unity. This move seems to their first take on Amazon’s Twitch, which more or less leads the charts when it comes to game streaming services.
