The YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week

Google launched the standalone YouTube gaming vertical almost four years ago as a response to Amazon’s purchase of Twitch, and on May 30, Google will shut down the standalone YouTube Gaming app and the standalone gaming.youtube.com website. Google kills its Twitch killer—the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week Here lies Google Inbox, a radical rethink of how email should work Google Fiber’s biggest failure: ISP will turn service off in Louisville View more stories The plan to shut down the gaming portal was announced in September, with a report from The Verge saying the site was dying because it simply wasn’t popular. Google is directing former YouTube Gaming users to a gaming sub-page on YouTube.com, which has some of the YouTube Gaming features intact, like the top live games list.

Source: arstechnica.com