Twitch has announced that a new Twitch desktop app is coming this week, although it'll only be in beta form for now.
"One of the best things about the Twitch community is the people you connect with on your journey," the announcement reads. "It's why we are always looking for ways to make it easier to keep in touch. From adding upgrades like whispers and friends, to looking at outside technologies that can help us improve your overall experience. Remember the acquisition of Curse? Over the past few months, our teams have been hard at work merging the best of the Curse platform to create our own Twitch experience. Today we are excited and proud to announce the launch of the Twitch Desktop App beta on March 16th."
This app will allow people to create their own Twitch server for users to "hang out in and stay in touch," and this applies even when your stream is offline. The app also allows you to import friends from gaming communities elsewhere, and then use Twitch for whispers, voice, and video calls.
The app also "incorporate[s] Curse's legendary addon/mod community and platform into the app so you can easily find, install, and manage all your game addons/mods. Soon after launch, you'll even be able to sync your mod settings across multiple machines for free with Cloud-Sync."
Another feature is that, when you're in a voice or video call during gaming, you can alter setting using an in-game overlay.
To download the app when it releases on March 16, head to this link. Do you think this desktop app will change the way you approach streaming?