Good news for Twitch.tv fans came today in the form of an announcement for app support on the Xbox 360! In a blog on Twitch.tv, community manager Jared Rea announced the news that as of today, the application will be available to Gold members. The Twitch app is bring the top 300 channels to you so you can view them straight from your console. The app is Kinect enabled with voice and motion controls as well!
“The Twitch App for Xbox 360 will bring the top 300 live channels to your big screen, with the ability to browse the directory by top channels, games and featured content. Best of all, the Twitch App for Xbox 360 is Kinect-enabled, allowing you to control the entire experience with voice or motion controls.”
The only sad news is that there is currently no search feature to view any other channels other than the top 300. This has been an area of criticism by many, but Jared Rea responded by stating, “We’re not happy with the apps either, which is why we completely rebooted development for both iOS and Android. The unfortunate reality is that sometimes you need to take a step back before you can move forward. For example: search did not function on the apps. It just flat out didn’t, so instead of having a worthless “feature” living in the app, we removed it until we get it right.”
This explanation is very welcome, and helps explain why there is currently no search function for your lesser liked streams, and favorited streams. However, if what he said holds some weight, hopefully a working search function will be added in a future update soon!
Good news to me! Head on over to the Twitch.tv blog to check out the full story, slideshow, and video of the app in action!
http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/05/announcing-the-twitch-app-for-xbox-live/
