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IN PHOTO: A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes, southeastern France Reuters/Eric Gaillard

YouTube is one of the most popular sites currently, and it has become one of the pioneers in online video streaming. It has been a lot of help to streamers worldwide, contributing to many fields such as sports, news and science. As of today, YouTube will support the gaming community with a new site that is dedicated and focused on anything related to video games.

YouTube Gaming launched today as a separate app that is focused on video games and will be the center for gameplay, trailers and Let’s Play videos. The Verge reports that YouTube Gaming is Google’s answer to Twitch’s popular streaming platform. One of the problems gamers come into when searching content on YouTube is that there are a tons of other content that gets in the way of what they want to watch. YouTube Gaming resolves this problem by not only separating video games from other content, but it also creates categories based on the different kinds of gaming content.

The new app looks a lot more like Netflix, or YouTube’s mobile app. And just like the regular YouTube website, this also allows users to give streamers the ability to comment, subscribe or give streamers a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down.

In YouTube Gaming, searching for content is greatly narrowed down. Back in the regular YouTube, users have to insert more words to search for specific content. For example, users need to add the words “gameplay trailer” ahead of a game title to search for this content. In YouTube Gaming, each content is categorised thoroughly and is organised in a way that gamers can easily see the content they want to see. There’s a list of trending games on one side, while on the other is a list of featured channels. There are also pages for specific games. So far, YouTube Gaming launched without a hitch as no one has reported any issues with it yet.

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