YouTube to launch dedicated video gaming site

United States: YouTube has plans to launch a dedicated site and app meant exclusively for games. This will be an attempt to compete with the Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch. Twitch allows gaming fans to watch and interact with live broadcasts of games playing by others. Google, the owner of YouTube is understood to have made a bid for Twitch last year, only to be beaten by Amazon's $970m (£620m) offer. According to the Google sources, the gaming service would be made available by later ...