The new website and app will be dedicated to the gaming community.

YouTube has announced that its next service, YouTube Gaming, is expected to be released later this summer in the US and UK. Available on desktop, iOS, and Android, YouTube Gaming will offer a centralized home for gaming-related videos and streams.

YouTube Gaming is built to be all about your favorite games and gamers, with more videos than anywhere else. From "Asteroids" to "Zelda," more than 25,000 games will each have their own page, a single place for all the best videos and live streams about that title. You’ll also find channels from a wide array of game publishers and YouTube creators.

Keeping up with these games and channels is now super easy, too. Add a game to your collection for quick access whenever you want to check up on the latest videos. Subscribe to a channel, and you'll get a notification as soon as they start a live stream. Uncover new favorites with recommendations based on the games and channels you love. And when you want something specific, you can search with confidence, knowing that typing “call” will show you “Call of Duty” and not “Call Me Maybe.” 

In the coming weeks users can also expect to see some more improvements to YouTube's livestreaming, such as a system redesign so that events don't have to be scheduled in advance.

More information is promised to come with next week's E3. Keep in touch with YouTube during the convention here.

Ann "Cyliena" Hosler, Managing Editor