To do so, we draw on empirical data from offline and online fieldwork, including 100 qualitative interviews with professional live-streamers, offline ethnography at live-streaming events, and online ethnography and observation of Twitch streams. We explore three cases: streaming newly released games and the attendant role of streaming in informing consumer choice the visibility and added lifespan that streaming is affording to independent and niche games and older games and the live streaming of the creation of games, shedding light on the games industry and subverting ordinarily expensive or highly competitive game-design courses, training and employment paths. We focus not on live streaming as a form of media production and consumption, but instead explore its newly central role in the contemporary political economy of the whole video games ecosystem. This article explores the growing importance of live streaming, specifically on website and platform, to the games industry.

(2019) 'The Impacts of Live Streaming and on the Video Game Industry', Media, Culture and Society, 41(5): 670-688.

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