It would seem that the streaming wars are not in excess of, even soon after Mixer’s shutdown. Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins was a single of the huge-title streamers that Microsoft locked up beneath an exclusive contract, and the moment the platform made its closure formal, admirers have been left asking yourself exactly where Ninja would stop up subsequent. It appears that the response is YouTube.

Before today, a exam stream briefly went dwell on Ninja’s YouTube channel. It was promptly deleted, but screenshots were captured by people like HYPEX on Twitter. This immediately led to speculation that Ninja has signed a deal to stream on YouTube Gaming, while the streamer has produced no formal statement on that point. We’ve attained out to Ninja’s company for remark, and will update when we understand more.

Yesterday, Jessica Blevins – Ninja’s manager and spouse – tweeted “You’ve all been patient… this week will be fun”, hinting that some form of announcement on the streamer’s long term would land this week. Again when Mixer’s shutdown was declared, Ninja only tweeted that “I have some choices to make and will be imagining about you all as I make them.”

Ninja was a person of the 1st huge streamers to signal an special agreement with Mixer, and both YouTube and Fb Gaming started to convey in distinctive streamers in reaction. Mixer is now partnering with Fb Gaming, and journalist Rod ‘Slasher’ Breslau documented that Fb introduced an “insane offer” to continue to keep Ninja on board, but the streamer explained no.

Ninja most most likely signed to youtube, he at this time has a test stream scheduled, most likely did not necessarily mean to make it public but this is a big hint.. pic.twitter.com/e4bd6lhD8M

— HYPEX (@HYPEX) July 7, 2020

Ninja is predominantly acknowledged as a streamer of battle royale game titles, like Fortnite, although he’s played loads of other games, which includes Valorant.