YouTube Teams With IGN To Broadcast E3

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Next week, the world’s leading video game makers and throngs of fans and press will unite for E3, which is generally regarded as the most prominent annual gaming-focused news event. And this year, fans will be able to watch live, thanks to a live stream that’s being broadcast through a partnership between YouTube and gaming portal IGN.

YouTube will be live streaming the main press conferences (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft) and content from IGN’s E3 booth which will include game demos and interviews. All of this will be available on the channel YouTube.com/E3.

IGN has of course been covering E3 for as long as I can remember. But this is new territory for YouTube, which has been gradually ramping up its live streaming efforts in the last year or so. YouTube live streams used to primarily focus on political events, but it’s since streamed a handful of concerts, the Tiger Woods press conference, and the Indian Premier League’s cricket tournament.

We also recently found evidence of a live stream button available on some YouTube accounts, though the shot in question was of CitizenTube which regularly broadcasts livestreams. Still, Max Haot, the CEO of Livestream, felt that the button was “strong evidence” that YouTube was planning to launch a live streaming feature.

I’ll be surprised if YouTube launches a live streaming option for individuals in the near future (it would be a huge liability). But clearly the site isn’t afraid of working with trusted partners, and I expect we’ll continue to see more deals like this one.

I'll be watching Sony and Nintendo's conferences this year.
Oh, and keeping an eye out for VALVe's surprise ;3

Source: Stormbit.net via Techcrunch

 

[Sonicslasher]

Last year's streaming sucked something awful. Since it's youtube, it shouldn't have all of those loading problems that you with with millions of people watching ^-^

 

[Porygon-X]

Yes! Now I have stuff to do on June 15-17! (Those ARE the correct dates right?)

 

[dinofan01]

Sweet. Yet another option to watch the conferences. I should really make a bookmark folder for all these sites just in case they crash.

 

[Jakob95]

Um I have a question. Will I be able to view this on my iPod Touch?

 

[PrinceNOOB]

I'll just watch it on G4.

 

[redact]

Um I have a question. Will I be able to view this on my iPod Touch?

i didn't think of that

would be awesome if so, no sitting at the computer at 1am to watch ninty conference

 

[Sonicslasher]

Yes! Now I have stuff to do on June 15-17! (Those ARE the correct dates right?)

14-17th

 

[LightyKD]

AWESOME!!! Now I can watch the conference from my HD set in my living room using my Wii. I don't care about video quality (I'll end up downloading the Nintendo conference to add to my collection anywayz). I just wanted a way to watch the conference in my living room! I have a sad feeling that Nintendo's stream from their site wont be Wii compatible

 

[purechaos996]

Cool I'll be keeping an Eye on at least 2 E3 (G4,Gamespot/IGN) as I alway do. G4's 25 hours of coverage is going to be awesome! cant wait for next week.

 

[dinofan01]

Cool I'll be keeping an Eye on at least 2 E3 (G4,Gamespot/IGN) as I alway do. G4's 25 hours of coverage is going to be awesome! cant wait for next week.

Wow. Its been a while since I watched G4 but if I had known they were giving more coverage then literally possible....I would have been watching again!

 

[LightyKD]

I lost G4 last week due to Comcast shuffling channels around so, JTV or this (youtube) for me. A update on the Youtube E3 page, while it loads from the Internet Channel, it's also a memory hog and I cant seem to get any of the videos on the page to start.

Quick thought: I wonder if someone would be able to take the embed code from the youtube page and post it as a blog post, that way we tempers would have a one stop place to go for all our press event needs, maybe someone could create a "gbatemp.net/e3" section ... just a thought

 

[yuyuyup]

what if E3 2010 is a huge nipplefest

 

[monkat]

what if E3 2010 is a huge nipplefest

If it's E3 it'll mostly be male nipples, so it doesn't really matter

 

[_Chaz_]

This is amazing! No longer will I have to stand for G4's awful commentary!

I assume I can report back to the videos later so I can re-watch my favorite parts?

 

[purechaos996]

Cool I'll be keeping an Eye on at least 2 E3 (G4,Gamespot/IGN) as I alway do. G4's 25 hours of coverage is going to be awesome! cant wait for next week.

Wow. Its been a while since I watched G4 but if I had known they were giving more coverage then literally possible....I would have been watching again!

Well its not 25 hours in one day lol its over all 3 days which is still A LOT more then most online streams will give us.

 

[LINK289]

I'm going to try to see if someone on JTV will stream G4's coverage, if not gamespot but if that gets too slow... youtube

 

[Feels Good Man]

Awesome!

The site I go to is still going to crash though. SADNESS. It's been happening since I was grade 8 (about 5 years ago)

 

[fgghjjkll]

iPhone has the youtube app so i guess you can stream it on an iPhone.

 

[jalaneme]

my nokia phone has a youtube app aswell so this should be intresting, also my ps3 and wii could be used too.