Blevins' defection was a marketing coup for Mixer, generating free press and inspiring other gamers to follow. — AFP
On Aug 1, a rail-thin 28-year-old with hair dyed red, white and blue altered the course of videogaming with three words: "The next chapter.”
That tweet introduced a video in which Tyler Blevins, known to his fans as Ninja, announced he was moving from Twitch, a video site owned by Amazon.com Inc, to Mixer, a rival site owned by Microsoft Corp.
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