VOD: Twitch Weekly for the Week of October 31st, 2014

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We had another awesome episode of Twitch Weekly this week! If you want to know more about any of the cool stuff we talked about this week, we’ve included links to all the major topics in the post below. Thanks for watching!

Twitch Updates

Twitch Tech Talks — Behind the scenes look at how Twitch chat team handled the Twitch Plays Pokemon craze an d the massive and unexpected scalability challenges it brought. Congrats to Twitch Backpack winner @MargaRamsdell

Events and Esports:

Extra Life “National Game Day” Raises over $5.1 million for charity! Remaking the Legend — Halo 2: Anniversary Documentary airing on Xbox’s channel Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Halo: The Master Chief Collection is having a launch invitational at the ESL studio in Burbank, CA The Race — Call of Duty: Advance Warfare Marathon! Doublefines’ “Day of the Devs” Festival PAX Australia — New game releases, panels, other PAX goodness Electronic Sports World Cup — CS: GO, CoD, and more Fight Pitt V — National Smash Bros Melee and Smash 4 Tournament! 2014 World Chess Championship — Commentary and gameplay of all the action of the best Chess players in the world. BlizzCon 2014 — Top WoW, Hearthstone, StarCraft 2, and Heroes of the Storm tournaments, plus possible reveals of future Blizzard projects

Discovery:

DansGaming holds 5th annual horror month Video Spotlight: NikonPunch Wheat’s Pick #1: Fenn3r Soma’s Pick #2: RizeUpGaming