Treyarch and Twitch TV are teaming up to bring a little bit of extra live streaming support to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

For those unfamiliar, TwitchTV is popular online video platform where gamers can broadcast their gameplay to the world (or their followers) via live streaming.

Currently, Black Ops 2 allows live streaming to YouTube, but considering the popularity of TwitchTV, this is great news.

On Twitter, Treyarch recently announced,

I heard you would like to stream Black Ops 2 directly to Twitch? We’ll be turning that on today. Watch this space for details.

Getting into more specific details, TwitchTV stated that broadcasting will go live 9AM PDT / 12PM EDT.

Twitch broadcasting in Black Ops II may not be live until 9AM PDT / 12PM EDT. If it doesn’t show up for you, hang tight! It’s oscar mike.

You’ll be able to stream directly to your Twitch channel from the game itself with no additional hardware or software required. To get started, check out this video tutorial below:

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