In their efforts of creating a gaming community platform that would connect gamers with the content they love, XSplit and their $10 million investment strategy has successfully acquired the rights to both Player.me and Challonge. According to the press release that was sent out earlier today, the combined entity will have a total of over eight million registered users along with two million unique monthly visitors.
XSplit is a popular broadcast and live streaming software, but today, the company will be connected with Player.me and Challonge. Both of these companies add into XSplit’s vision of connecting a community that loves video game content.
For instance, Player.me is a social discovery platform for the gaming community that can allow users to create profiles, share livestreams, video game collections, and ultimately connect with one another. Likewise, Challonge brings in an interesting aspect as it’s a great tool and source for creating fan tournaments of various video games.
With these three services now connected, XSplit will become a more sensible solution for gamers to connect and enjoy video game based content. Here’s what Henrik Levrin, CEO of SplitmediaLabs had to say about their newly acquired platforms.
“When we launched XSplit almost six years ago, we set out on a mission to make live streaming and recording simple. In that time, both broadcasting and gaming changed dramatically, with the advent of new live streaming services, the birth of the Twitch Streamer, and the explosion of eSports capturing the imagination of players across the globe.
Fast forward to 2016 and the world’s top gaming personalities, eSports teams, game developers, publishers and millions of people worldwide are using XSplit to create innovative, hilarious, entertaining and meaningful content that has impacted audiences of all ages. Live streaming has helped bring people together from all walks of life, and with hundreds of thousands of new users joining us every month, that number is set to grow higher still.
Yet this is still only the beginning. Our aspirations for the future are much bigger, as we envision a world where players can seamlessly connect to one another in a dedicated space, share and create content, compete with one another and grow their own communities. To turn this dream into a reality though, we knew we needed the right expertise, technology and people to make this happen.
This is where social discovery platform, Player.me, and tournament management service, Challonge come in. Between these two services we see the potential to create a platform that connects the entire gaming community and serves the needs of all players in their daily lives.
We’re going to shake things up a bit over the coming months by combining the Player.me community and discovery engine with Challonge’s tournament bracket technology to create a future where players, content creators, eSports entrepreneurs and event organizers, can connect with one another seamlessly and beautifully.”
