Video game streaming is becoming huge

Video game streaming is huge today – yes, viewers who like watching others play video games. Services like UStream and YouTube have cashed in on this phenomenon. According to a report on the Geek.com, in which they have used a stream-monitoring service called Gamoloco, the top streamed games in the 1^st week of February were:

League of Legends (22,703,372 hours)

Dota 2 (9,688,853 hours)

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (8,813,318 hours)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (8,437,020 hours)

Call of Duty: Black Ops III (5,262,717 hours)

XCOM2 (2,777,702 hours)

Minecraft (2,238,235 hours)

Gaming Talk Shows* (1,962,004 hours)

H1Z1 (1,766,414 hours)

World of Warcraft (1,636,759 hours)

* The Gaming Talk Shows category is a compilation of all the various gaming talk shows on Twitch.

And the top 10 channels & streamers were:

Riot Games (League of Legends, 4,585,872 hours)

gameshow_cggoen (Counter-Strike: GO, 1,251,983 hours)

imaqtpie (League of Legends, 1,085,830 hours)

lirik (Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, 940,020 hours)

nightblue3 (League of Legends, 868,867 hours)

nl_kripp (Hearthstone, 803,524 hours)

mushisgosu (League of Legends, 788,700 hours)

athenelive (Hearthstone, 777,097 hours)

trick2g (League of Legends, 771,218 hours)

arteezy (Dota 2, 770 578 hours)

Source: Geek.com