YouTube Gaming to capitalise on PewDiePie, Minecraft and live videos

New spin-off will launch in the summer as a site and app, gathering YouTube games videos in one place, and taking on Amazon's Twitch

YouTube is launching YouTube Gaming, a new spin-off app and website for gamers that will make its debut in the summer, initially in the US and UK.

It will seek to capitalise on the popularity of gaming videos on YouTube, with profile pages for more than 25,000 games "from Asteroids to Zelda" collecting videos related to each title. Games publishers and YouTube gamers will also be prominently featured.