Quick answer: At the TwitchCon San Diego 2026 Opening Ceremony on November 13, Twitch said Hosting is coming back (testing later this year, plus Host Trains), Clips will stretch from 60 seconds to 5 minutes, and Amazon Luna co-play with up to seven viewers is in testing now. GTA 6 rewards and daily game code drops run from launch through November 30. Current as of November 13, 2026.
TwitchCon San Diego opened on Friday, and Twitch used the Opening Ceremony to bring back two features streamers have asked about for years and add a few new ones. Here is everything from Twitch’s official roundup, sorted by when you can actually use it.
What is live or in testing now
- Play together with Amazon Luna: starting today, streamers can invite up to seven viewers into supported Luna GameNight titles. Viewers play on PC using their phones as controllers, with no app download. The catalog has more than 50 games, including The Game of Life 2 and Golf With Friends.
- Three new Unity Guilds: the Disability, Indigenous and Asian Guilds are live today. Streamers accepted by January 8, 2027 get a new Unity Guild Badge.
Hosting returns, and Clips get longer
The headline for most streamers: Hosting is coming back. Twitch will start experimenting later this year with a version that lets a channel feature another live stream while offline, with one shared Chat that can be combined or filtered to the host’s community. Host Trains will rotate viewers through a lineup of channels on a timer.
Twitch is also working to raise the maximum Clip length from 60 seconds to 5 minutes and let streamers merge short Clips into one. Moments, which gives viewers a badge for being there for big Clips, returns with more details early next year. A new Apprentice Moderator role can time out users but not ban them.
Legendary Emotes, Piñata and classic TV
- Legendary Emotes: collectible Kappa, LUL and PogChamp in Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Divine tiers, earned through Watch Streaks or Subs. Coming to US and German viewers on all monetizing channels in the next few weeks.
- Piñata: a test where Bits, Subs and Gift Subs break an on-stream piñata and everyone watching gets a 24-hour emote.
- Classic TV channels: from early 2027, ad-supported channels of classic shows cleared for co-streaming. Twitch has not named the shows yet.
GTA 6, The Game Awards and Drops
From GTA 6’s November 19 launch through November 30, Twitch will run GTA-themed Sub emotes, an evolving watch badge that ends in a Golden Iguana badge, Heist Trains, Gift Sub drops for GTA 6 Recaps and surprise daily GTA 6 game code drops. If you are still sorting out how to play, see our GTA 6 cloud gaming guide. Winter Drops Fest returns in December with Arc Raiders, Marvel Rivals, World of Warcraft and Warframe, and Twitch teased something with The Game Awards on December 10.
Our take
Bringing back Hosting is an admission that removing it in 2022 hurt smaller channels, and Host Trains could do more for discovery than any algorithm tweak. The 5-minute Clips matter too, since longer Clips are what streamers cut for TikTok and Shorts anyway. Most of this is still “later this year” or “early 2027,” so the only thing you can try this weekend is Luna co-play. TwitchCon San Diego returns October 8 to 10, 2027.
