Twitch Desktop App Arrives Soon

If you’ve been wishing that Twitch had a desktop app, your wish is going to come soon in the very near future. The Amazon-owned game streaming service has confirmed that it’s going to launch a new desktop app. However, it hasn’t actually built a new desktop app from the ground up. It’s a rebranded and revamped version of the gaming chat app Curse that Twitch acquired last year.

Curse, acquired by Twitch last year, is a standalone game chat service that’s meant for PC players. It allows several players to link their accounts for games like World of Warcraft and League of Legends to a central hub in which they can host voice calls, chat over text, and even make video calls.

Instead of developing its own app from the ground up, Twitch has decided to revamp and reintroduce Curse as its official product. It retains all of the features that Curse users will remember from the original version so features like mod tools, community server, screen sharing, and more are all present.

The app has been updated with Twitch’s many social features, the “whispers” private messaging tool, the ability to share activity with Twitch friends, and it will even have support for Twitch’s game download store which it arrives in a few months.

Twitch has confirmed that its new desktop app is going to be available in open beta starting March 16th. That’s also when all existing Curse users will be upgraded to the new app.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Gaming
Tags: Twitch