Aside from those dedicated title pages, you can also subscribe to channels from game publishers and indie YouTube creators. Once you've subscribed to a few channels and pages, YouTube will offer up recommendations based on the stuff you like. And, of course, searching within YouTube Gaming will bring up results that are specifically gaming-related ("Mine" will bring up Minecraft and not that Taylor Swift song, for example).

Just like Twitch, live streams will a big deal for YouTube Gaming. Indeed, YouTube made it so that it's often the first thing you'll see when you launch the app or website. You'll even get a notification whenever there's a live stream from a channel or page that you've subscribed to. If you're in the app itself, live streams from subscribed channels will be pinned to the top of the list.

An essential part of this equation is to make live streaming on YouTube appealing to gamers who want to broadcast their gameplay. YouTube says it offers features like high frame rate streaming at 60fps, a DVR function and it'll automatically convert that live stream to a YouTube video. It's also redesigning its Live broadcasting system so that you don't have to schedule an event ahead of time and you'll be able to share a link to all your streams. And good news for folks with poor bandwidth: YouTube is also now offering a low latency option for live broadcasters.

The comparison with Twitch is obvious here, but it's not like YouTube doesn't have its own dedicated gaming userbase. "Let's Play" YouTubers like PewDiePie are insanely popular in their own respective YouTube channels, some with millions of subscribers. YouTube's head of gaming Ryan Wyatt says that YouTube already has billions of hours of gaming content watched per month. But with YouTube Gaming, the online video giant is putting Twitch squarely in its crosshairs, with the hopes of drawing even more gameplay broadcasters to its side. Twitch certainly has the headstart here, but YouTube's sheer clout might make up for it. YouTube Gaming will be available later this summer in the US and the UK.