Players in the PlanetSide 2 beta will be able to live stream their games with just one mouse-click, the first time the feature has been incorporated into a live game.

The gamers' streams will be hosted on Twitch, an offshoot company of Justin.TV that has become the hub for gaming live streaming on the web.

PlanetSide 2 is different from many other massively multiplayer online games in that it is a first-person shooter instead of a role-playing game. Players are tasked with defending their own bases, as well attacking the enemy team's stronghold.

There are already several thousand participating in the PlanetSide 2 beta testing phase, and Sony Online Entertainment Creative Director Matt Higby says they'll see the implementation of the Twitch button as early as this weekend.

"Twitch has its finger on the pulse of competitive gaming," Higby says. "They have a highly engaged audience. Since PlanetSide 2 is such a competitive game, it made just a lot of sense to integrate streaming."

Twitch attracts 23 million viewers a month to its streams, and has more than 200,000 gamers posting new content, but it is still a lot of work for gamers to set up and maintain a stream. Higby says integrating streaming into PlanetSide 2 will also lower the hardware requirements for a PC to run the game and live stream at the same time.

"It's really about getting this tool in as many players' hands as possible and allowing them to express themselves," Higby says.

Higby says SOE has been focused on player expression for a long time, from their character customization options to having a blogging platform that gamers could use.

"Video is the next generation of community, and having a stream and people participating in it is sort of analogous to people having a blog," Higby says.

PlanetSide 2 will be available for download on Nov. 20 from the game's website. It is free to play.