Earlier in the present day the official X account for Kick, the streaming platform identified for courting controversy each with its playing affiliations and its contentious content material, introduced a partnership with Xbox.
The obscure announcement featured an image of two folks shaking fingers, with one in all them holding what seems to be a console field with the phrases “video game system” written on it and “Kick” within the middle, and the Xbox brand obfuscated underneath the particular person’s hand. The textual content accompanying the image reads: “kick [handshake emoji] xbox.”
kick 🤝 xbox pic.twitter.com/aDMEd62fdD
— KICK (@KickStreaming) December 17, 2025
Kotaku was in a position to independently verify that there’s now a devoted Kick app on Xbox consoles. The outline for the app reads:
“KICK’s a live streaming platform where creators kick it with their communities. (Yeah, we said the thing…).
Our creators march to the beat of their own drum, as do we, disrupting our opps with a 95-5 subscription split, our creator incentive program, and the freedom to multistream.
That’s why the likes of xQc, Asmongold, and MaxHolloway all pick KICK.”
An Xbox spokesperson informed Kotaku:
“Xbox does not have a partnership with Kick. Kick independently published an app on our platform, and we are actively evaluating it under our store policies. Apps that do not comply with these policies are removed.”
Kick didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Through the years, Kick has turn out to be referred to as the streaming place the place banned and cancelled Twitch streamers go, a type of protected area for dangerous conduct that has inked million-dollar offers with controversial content material creators like Felix “xQc” Lengyel, Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff, and Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa.
Kick has reasonably free group pointers and minimal moderation, and has turn out to be a spot the place problematic streamers go to thrive. Adin Ross, the Andrew-Tate-loving streamer who was “indefinitely” banned on Twitch in 2023 for failing to reasonable hate speech in his chat (the ban was overturned earlier this 12 months), discovered success on Kick. It was there that he livestreamed an interview with then-former President Donald Trump, throughout which Ross gifted him a Rolex and a Cybertruck encased in a Trump-themed ornamental wrap.
In line with Rolling Stone, Ross additionally used Kick to livestream movies from a porn web site and to platform an nameless neo-Nazi.
Earlier this 12 months, French streamer Raphaël “Jeanpormanove” Graven reportedly died in his sleep after a prolonged “humiliation” livestream on Kick by which he was assaulted by a number of different males.
The streaming platform can be closely entwined with the playing web site Stake, which was co-founded by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, who additionally each based, you guessed it, Kick. On the time of writing, there are over 81,000 folks watching the “Slots and Casino” class on Kick. Twitch banned gambling again in 2022.
There’s at present no app for Kick on the PlayStation Retailer.
Replace 12/17/25 4:10 p.m. ET: Added assertion from Xbox and famous Kick has been contacted for remark.
