Google has launched YouTube Gaming’s Android and iOS mobile apps in India. The company had launched the app in August last year starting with the US and UK. YouTube Gaming is available to all users globally through its desktop version. The app lets users ‘GO LIVE’ via a setting letting users stream content they are playing. However, it seems like Google has no way to know what users actually end up streaming as the company’s instructions mention that anything on your screen including notifications, calls, and passwords, will be recorded. Additionally, users can turn on the selfie cam and record their commentary while playing as well. Users can also launch specific games and start streaming via a floating video bubble that will appear when gaming. Google had launched Youtube Gaming in August last year. Users can subscribe to channels, favourite games etc., other than stream and view games live. The platform currently competes with Twitch, which was acquired by Amazon for $970m in 2014. Twitch, which was launched in 2011, has the advantage of having being built up as a game streaming service and consequently, even offers an API for game developers to integrate into their games and enable direct streaming. Twitch also offers mobile apps, however these lack the feature to livestream mobile games. YouTube originals for India: Last month, YouTube, along with its content partners Culture Machine, Only Much Louder (OML), Qyuki and The Viral Fever (TVF), said it would launch original content. This came a month after…
