Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPro gaming superstar and streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is coming back to Twitch, under a multiyear deal to livestream exclusively on the Amazon-owned platform.Ninja will launch his first livestream today on his Twitch channel — which has 15 million followers — on Thursday, Sept.
10, at 12 p.m. PT/3:00 p.m. ET. In August 2019, the popular game livestreamer announced an exclusive move to Microsoft’s Mixer, which was shut down this summer.Ninja will be streaming full-time on Twitch, where he began his career nearly 10 years.
He was the first professional streamer to get an exclusive skin in Epic Games’ “Fortnite” and was the first esports personality to appear on the cover of (now defunct) ESPN the Magazine.
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