{"id":6584,"date":"2015-07-16T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:27:21","slug":"no-mo-mobcrush-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/16\/no-mo-mobcrush-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mo&#8217; MobCrush Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/07\/13\/the-twitch-for-mobile-gaming-just-ripped-the-private-beta-tag-off-its-ios-app\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TechCrunch<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"alpha tweet-title\">The Twitch For Mobile Gaming Just Ripped The Private Beta Tag Off Its iOS App<\/h1>\n<p>by <a title=\"Posts by Alex Wilhelm\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/alex-wilhelm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Alex Wilhelm<\/a> <span class=\"twitter-handle\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">@alex<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/4-broadcasting.png?w=680&amp;h=367\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobcrush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mobcrush<\/a>\u00a0took its iOS and OS X apps out of private beta today, opening the duo\u00a0to all users of those platforms. The company intends to release a Windows app in the next few weeks, and an Android application will touch down before the end of summer.<\/p>\n<p>As a company, the Santa Monica-based\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/mobcrush-2\" target=\"_blank\">Mobcrush<\/a> is a bet that mobile gaming will eventually have\u00a0as large a spectator audience as desktop gaming. Livestreaming console and PC games, an oddity five years ago, has become a well-known content variety with millions of viewers tuning in to tournaments and individual players\u2019 streams around the world<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I was skeptical of Mobcrush\u2019s thesis \u2014 can mobile games be as compelling as their desktop cousins? Mobcrush argued\u00a0to TechCrunch that mobile games are becoming increasingly complex, and that many new gamers are mobile-first from the get go.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/07\/13\/the-twitch-for-mobile-gaming-just-ripped-the-private-beta-tag-off-its-ios-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TechCrunch The Twitch For Mobile Gaming Just Ripped The Private Beta Tag Off Its iOS App by Alex Wilhelm (@alex) Mobcrush\u00a0took its iOS and OS X apps out of private beta today, opening the duo\u00a0to all users of those platforms. The company intends to release a Windows app in the next few weeks, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}