Over the last few years, gaming on YouTube has become a fairly major part of the video service, with folks like PewDiePie, Markiplier and Tobygames pulling in crazy numbers of viewers [as of this writing, PewDiePie has racked up 37,201,347 subscribers] – which all amounts to gaming on the service being a pretty big deal.

Between this and the fact that Twitch.tv is arguably leading the pack with regards to game streaming has led the video behemoth to set up its own, dedicated “version” of YouTube especially for gaming.

This new portal will be called YouTube Gaming.

What this seems to mean – in practise – is that while gaming content will still show up on YouTube, the Gaming channel itself will be a space dedicated solely to things like Let’s Plays, Speedruns and gaming music videos.

The other big change is that live broadcasts will not have to be scheduled anymore and can simply happen on the fly and as you’re ready to stream your gaming prowess to the world.

Most interesting, perhaps, is that games that have their own pages.  So, for example, if you wanted to watch just people playing and enjoying The Witcher 3, or if you were looking for different speedruns of The Legend of Zelda, you can now do that by finding that specific game and adding it to a “collection” of games that you regularly watch content of.

Naturally, all of this will come bundled with an application that you can put onto your ‘phone for quick and easy access.

This new “version” of YouTube is going to be rolled out during summer of this year [2015] with the United States being turned on first, followed by the United Kingdom.

Twitch’s response?

It seems like they’re not too worried.

Here’s to a summer indoors, watching video games!