YouTube To Host First Interactice Gaming Livestream

YouTube has announced the first-ever interactive gaming livestream, "YouTube: Game On". An event featuring up to 60 of YouTube's best-known creators.

YouTube has announced the first-ever interactive gaming livestream called "YouTube: Game On". The self-proclaimed "biggest gaming special ever" is expected to run for about 2 hours and feature content from more than 60 popular content creators. Meanwhile, viewers can play along by voting in real time on unique gaming challenges and influencing the course of the stream. Here come the details.

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Interactive YouTube: Game On Event Explained

YouTube's announced interactive livestream aims to celebrate the variety of gaming content that makes up YouTube gaming culture, from entertaining gaming challenges and surprising gameplay moments to honoring classic gaming anniversaries, all inspired by the most popular trends on the platform.

The goal is to celebrate everything related to gaming, with a lot of well-known talents and creators present on the platform. Or, to be more precise, those who are better known on YouTube than on other platforms. Every creator will be playing a series of games that are mainly party games, or games that allow a lot of participants.

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Segments include "a series of terrifying horror challenges" and the Sean Evans-hosted "Hot Ones Challenge," which pits viewer-selected players against each other playing Street Fighter 6, with the defeated players having to eat increasingly spicy chicken wings. "Grandma & Gran-Poppy Playtime" will feature unsuspecting seniors trying to be the last person standing in the survival horror game Poppy Playtime.

The games featured in the stream include the following:

Among Us
Fall Guys
Fortnite
Free Fire, Friday Night Funkin'
Grand Theft Auto V, Minecraft
Mortal Kombat 11
Poppy Playtime
Rocket League
Street Fighter 6
Trackmania

YouTube: Game On – Schedule

The interactive event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 27 at 22:00 on the official YouTube channel. Here you can find the official trailer for the event: