Category: Community

Since opening our official XSplit Discord server, Nyx has been a standout member with knowledge of not only XSplit products but also tech in general surrounding streaming and technical PC know-how. It really didn’t take long before she was promoted as a moderator with the responsibilities of helping us out in responding to members and keeping the various channels in order.

Get to know more about her with this interview.

Tell us a little about yourself, your favorite games, your background and what you’re up to?

Nyx: Hi, My name is Thea Nyx Petersen but I’m more known as Nyx. My background is in IT, and I have a big passion for the tech industry as a whole, I’ve been gaming for as long I can remember with my first game being Giana Sisters on the Commodore 64. I mostly prefer RPG’s and platformers ranging from Crash and Spyro to World of Warcraft, Guildwars2, or classic offline RPG’s. Right now I’m still setting stuff up to get back into a consistent streaming schedule.

When and how did you first stumble upon XSplit and how long have you been using it?

Nyx: I actually stumbled upon XSplit quite a few years ago right after I had started trying out streaming. Back when I first used it, I was very inexperienced when it came to the streaming scene, but the thing that immediately hit me with XSplit was how the stream looked a lot more out of the box, that I liked!

What makes you use XSplit over other streaming applications? What are your favorite features?

Nyx: I’ve tried almost every streaming application on the market ( some that don’t exist anymore ) and I always fell back on XSplit for 2 reasons.

The first is the chroma key tool makes my life so much easier! Secondly I like the aspect that I’m not bound to my stream settings, I can easily stream at 720p and do a 1440p recording at 2 different frame rates at the same time, might not be what most need but it makes me happy to know I can produce a local recording that’s completely unbound by my stream settings.

What do you think is the most interesting part about the video creation and streaming community?

Nyx: See this is where my approach is probably a bit unique, I’m not very good at editing or stuff like that, however, my time in the streaming scene I’ve always been a bit of a perfectionist, which has caused me to get very familiar with x264 as a whole, which has also allowed me to tweak my encodes to a point where I personally am much happier with the raw quality of my streams. It’s been 4 years and I still regularly come up with new ways to improve, I guess part of it is the excitement of a challenge and being able to see the work pay off immediately.

What do you find most rewarding and most difficult about being a moderator on the XSplit Discord server?

Nyx: I think that a lot of people have come to rely on me for technical advice when it comes to the streaming scene, I’m always happy to share my knowledge, I could probably preach to the end of the world about the more technical aspects of encoding. I also find it super rewarding when I manage to teach people new stuff, especially when they come back to let me know the information I gave helped their streams.

But also I’d like people to be aware that I’m not flawless, I’ve been tinkering with this stuff for years, so it doesn’t mean I don’t make mistakes. I sometimes worry that when I say stuff that doesn’t apply to everyone that people reading through will be taking that for themselves giving them a worse end result instead of them reaching out asking if X applies to their setup as well.

For anyone reading this, let them know where they can find you; social pages, YouTube and streaming channels?

Nyx: Heh, I’m usually horrible at managing social media but the two main destinations to find me would be my personal discord or my Twitch channel. I sometimes manage to update my twitter but it’s not as often as I should, the channels are linked below:

• Twitter: @PhantomOfNyx
• Discord: discord.gg/phantomofnyx
• Twitch: PhantomOfNyx

And that’s it! If you haven’t still, join our Discord server and interact with fellow content creators and gamers! We also have some exclusive insider stuff that you surely don’t want to miss out.

Looking forward to seeing you inside! 🙂

With news of brands skipping on the E3 2019 press conferences and the event is a few days away, we thought to confirm that XSplit will be back and has partnered with Devolver Digital once again to produce their live stage content straight from the Devolver Digital’s lot across the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 11 to 13.

Watch our E3 adventure last year with our Community Manager Arthur Arends.

We had much fun helping out on the stream production over at the DD lot, and we surely had a blast meeting fellow creators around the convention center. Here are some photos of our adventure from last year.

For real-time E3 2019 updates fresh and live from the LA Convention Center, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and
Instagram.

We’re also running an #XSplitxDevolverDigital giveaway during E3 so stay tuned for the mechanics.

If you’re at the event venue, come and say hi! We’ll be at the Devolver Digital booth for most of the day. See you there!

PS.
Don’t forget to tag us in your photos to get a chance to be featured on our socials. 😉

We’re excited to work with RPS Sessions, powering their production at EGX Rezzed this year! The event is taking place April 4th – 6th 2019 at the Tobacco Dock in London. You can find out more about the event here.

The RPS Sessions, curated and hosted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun will be a showcase for the many games on the showfloor of EGX Rezzed. You will be able to find out more from the developers themselves live on their YouTube channel at youtube.com/rockpapershot.

We will be giving away 1-year Premium licenses along with some cool swag from RPS so make sure to drop by the booth if you’re attending. If not, our team will be posting some live updates on our social media channels so make sure you’re following us so you don’t miss any.

After SXSW and GDC, we travel next to PAX East where our team will be co-exhibiting with the wonderful people over at Versus Evil.

Versus Evil is a renowned indie game publisher responsible for publishing titles such as The Banner Saga, Armikrog, Guild of Dungeoneering and more! We’ve worked with them for a number of times in the past but most notably in last year’s PAX East. This year’s flavor is pretty much similar, putting the spotlight on content creators streaming games to their channel all week long. All content will be streamed by our production team using XSplit Broadcaster. If you’re attending, make sure to visit us at booth #15090 and #15096 for some good content and free swag. And don’t hesitate to say hi to us!

Additionally, we’re co-sponsoring a party with Versus Evil and Woovit which will be happening on the 28th starting at 5pm. Learn more details about the party and how to RSVP here.

Just like with other events, we’ll be covering the event on our social media channels so make sure to follow @xsplit for some live updates!

It’s a real busy month for us as we’re flying next to Game Developers Conference together with Intel to demonstrate XSplit VCam and showcase a lot of things that we’ve been really working hard on for quite some time.

We co-produced a whitepaper about intelligent background removal on Intel GPUs and that’s what we’re aiming to demo live at the Intel booth located at #449, Exhibit Level, South Hall. This is a perfect opportunity for us to get XSplit VCam out in the wild and get as many feedback especially as we near towards the end of our early access period.

Are you going to GDC? Let us know in the comments below!

SXSW is one of the most anticipated conference of the year and we’re excited to partner once again with Alienware, handling the production aspect of their presence and running their live stream using XSplit.

Located at the Sunset Room, the Alienware Outpost gives attendees the full experience through an exclusive first look of some of their latest gaming hardware. They will also be bringing in a whole host of content creators who will be playing and streaming games throughout the event. Some notable guests include Microsoft, NBA 2K, Vice, RedBull, GroundisLava, FaZe Cloakzy, and more! You can check out their full schedule here.

You can catch all the action at twitch.tv/alienware. The XSplit team will be sharing some live updates throughout the duration of the event so make sure to follow us on social media!

See you there!

This year’s E3 is shaping up to be an exciting one for us as we’re going to be all over the place!

We will have a kiosk set up at the Facebook booth in E3 where we will be demoing all the new features we have built-in for XSplit Broadcaster 3.4! Stop by for a demo and we might just have some XSplit swag for you!

We’re again working with our friends at Devolver Digital, producing their streaming stage live from the Devolver Parking Lot which will be streaming from Tuesday 12th June on Twitch and Steam!

We had a lot of fun with them last year, which you can watch in the video below.

Finally, we are the live stream partner for Alienware, helping them produce their streams across all of E3! Be sure to check out the Alienware Twitter channel for more info closer to the event!

If you’re heading to E3, then be sure to drop by those areas. If not, we have you covered as we’re going to be posting periodic updates on our social channels for the entirety of the event so stay tuned!

We couldn’t be prouder of our Brand Ambassador and former US Community Manager, Brandon Stennis aka iamBrandon and his team who went over the donation goal for the St Jude’s PLAY LIVE Scare A Thon!

The charity event was powered by XSplit who not only was the software of choice for content creators taking part, but also provided stream overlay and other graphic assets needed for the event.

Over the course of three days, Brandon and a bunch of other equally talented streamers managed to raise $20,102.50 for St Jude, a brilliant cause who you can find out more about here

We’re happy about this awesome milestone and we can’t wait to take part of the next one.

After an amazing show in Birmingham earlier this year (oh hey, there’s a video below!) we are excited to team up yet again with Streamers Connected for something even bigger at MCM Comic Con London! Here’s a sneak peak at how their booth would look like:

As you can see, they are going big and we can’t wait to be a part of it! There will be various panels featuring many streamers, our XSplit Elites and even a panel focusing on XSplit and Player.me! The event takes place from the 25th to the 27th of May you can find more info or buy tickets here with the XSplit and Player.me panel happening Saturday 26th at 4pm!

We will have a bunch of photos going out on our social platforms for those who can’t attend to keep it locked to XSplit! For the meantime, enjoy the video!

War Child UK has organised this campaign to get people playing and streaming retro games from their childhood and raising money to help children today who have had their lives torn apart by war. You can find more info here.

We here at SplitmediaLabs firmly support this initiative and so do our XSplit Elites who are streaming and fundraising from the 12th April until the 26th! Player.me has also created a custom overlay which is free for anyone to use while they are getting involved in RE-PLAY.

Already signed up to Player.me? Add the overlays directly to your account with these links!

• Start Screen – https://player.me/share/o/g78I…
• Intermission – https://player.me/share/o/LHgJ…
• In-Game – https://player.me/share/o/b8Ag…

If not, signing up is simple and free at Player.me!

We firmly support this initiative and we are proud that our community has rallied behind it! See you in the streams!