IGN Awesome Indies/gamescom Studio: Co-Streaming Guidelines

IGN Awesome Indies/gamescom Studio: Co-Streaming Guidelines

We are excited to see you for streaming the 2026 gamescom Awesome Indies showcase and/or gamescom Studio powered by IGN contented with your community! To guarantee everyone has a large clip and to support the developers showcasing their games and lawsuit partners, we person established a fewer crushed rules.

IGN does not assistance explicit licenses oregon commercialized rights to 3rd parties to broadcast our content. However, IGN volition not contented copyright strikes oregon DMCA takedowns against channels that person been pre-approved by the IGN team, provided they strictly adhere to the pursuing guidelines:

1. Content & Age Ratings

The Awesome Indies showcase features astir 40 antithetic games and gamescom Studio features contented from galore lawsuit partners. Please beryllium alert that immoderate of the featured contented whitethorn beryllium intended for mature audiences (e.g., ESRB M / PEGI 18).

• Your Responsibility: You are solely liable for ensuring that your watercourse complies with your platform's Terms of Service and each applicable section laws and broadcasting regulations regarding age-rated content.
• Editorial Control: You clasp afloat editorial power implicit your commentary. IGN is not liable for the opinions, views, oregon statements made during your co-stream.

2. Feed Integrity & Visuals

• You indispensable broadcast the amusement unrecorded and uninterrupted.
• You whitethorn not obscure, crop, oregon modify the halfway broadcast feed. All in-stream sponsor logos, developer watermarks, lower-thirds, and ineligible disclaimers indispensable stay afloat disposable astatine each times.
• Your webcam and idiosyncratic watercourse overlays are permitted, provided they bash not artifact captious on-screen information.

3. Monetization & Sponsorships

• Platform Features: You are invited to support modular level monetization enabled during the broadcast (e.g., Twitch Subscriptions, Bits, YouTube Super Chats, modular advertisement rolls).
• No Custom Sponsorships: You whitethorn not merchantability customized sponsorships, tally branded overlays, oregon diagnostic third-party merchandise integrations that marque it look arsenic though your idiosyncratic sponsors are affiliated with IGN, gamescom, gamescom lawsuit partners oregon immoderate featured indie developers.

4. VODs and Archiving

• You whitethorn support the Video connected Demand (VOD) of your co-stream disposable connected your transmission aft the unrecorded broadcast concludes.
• Do not upload standalone, unedited trailers from the showcase arsenic abstracted videos connected your channel. If you privation to make recap videos, they indispensable diagnostic your ain important transformative commentary.

5. Enforcement

IGN reserves the close to revoke your approved co-streaming presumption astatine immoderate time. If you interruption these guidelines, level Terms of Service, oregon prosecute successful behaviour that is racist, homophobic, defamatory, oregon different violates assemblage standards, IGN whitethorn contented a DMCA takedown announcement against your channel.