You Can Now Live Stream Any Blizzard Game on Windows PC via Facebook Live

If you're playing any of Blizzard's games on Windows PCs, you can now stream your gameplay via Facebook Live - the social network's live streaming video feature. This means you can show off to the world heated matches of Overwatch or even intense raids in World of Warcraft aside from the likes of Diablo, Starcraft, and Hearthstone. Amusingly the news comes from Blizzard, via its YouTube channel.

"Blizzard Streaming is now available in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, with global access coming soon," reads the description of the video on the company's YouTube video.

While this partnership was originally announced in June, it's finally live now. Although it's limited to Windows PCs at the moment, you can expect Mac support soon enough. Dubbed as Blizzard Streaming, it's accessible once you update the Blizzard client on Windows. A camera icon will be available. On clicking it for the first time you're prompted to allow the client to share to Facebook on your behalf. You can then choose who can see your live stream.

This marks yet another update to Facebook Live. Earlier in the week, it was made available to Indian users and soon after, verified accounts could make use of two-person broadcasting.

With Facebook Live partnering Blizzard, it will be interesting to see which other gaming companies it works with next. As for gamers themselves, Facebook Live is just another option in addition to the likes of Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Hitbox to name a few.

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CollegeHumor’s co-founder heads to Facebook to help build a media empire

CollegeHumor founder Ricky Van Veen.

Ricky Van Veen of CollegeHumor fame is headed to Facebook as Head of Global Creative Strategy. Veen is co-founder of CollegeHumor, a site that pumps out funny, original content in the form of sketches, animations, music videos and so on.

Facebook is obviously pushing its video and Facebook Live platform and they've been spending on celebrities and media companies in a bid to get them to generate content. Veen, who's been spent more than 10 years of his life on generating content seems like the perfect fit for the job.

In a Facebook post, Veen said, "I'll be working with all types of creators and organizations to figure out how best to use the biggest network in the world to better connect people with engaging and meaningful content."

He also added that "In terms of Facebook's opportunity to leverage great content (specifically video) to the right audiences, things are just getting started"

CollegeHumor's YouTube channel alone has a massive following with almost 11 million subscribers to its name. If Veen can bring some of the brilliance, that earned CollegeHumor such a following, to Facebook video, we might actually be looking at a platform that will surpass YouTube.

As a report on recode points out, Veen has been quoted as saying that Zuckerberg is the most "consequential person in the world."

Speaking of Zuckerberg and Facebook, he reportedly said that a single entity (Zuckerberg) had absolute control over the flow of information. That with a single piece of code, Facebook could ruin companies, they could "send an alert to every spouse in the world at once if a partner has actively been in touch with an ex."

And now he's partnered with that entity to build a media empire.

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