Twitch is fast trying to establish itself as the go-to place for all a gamer’s needs. Most famous for its streaming platform, two weeks ago Twitch revealed its plan to start selling games with some of the money made going back to their partner streamers, and now they’re planning to tackle the voicechat world.

Currently with Discord as one of the big players in that field, Twitch acquired Curse, another big player, last summer. Now they’ve announced that Curse is going to be enhanced, rebranded and then relaunched as the Twitch Desktop App. This means that as well as containing the features that Curse had before, screen sharing, voice and video calling, and community server creation; the Twitch Desktop App will contain features from Twitch. These will include whispers, activity sharing and eventually a game library filled with games purchased through Twitch which will only be accessed through this new Desktop App rather than the Twitch launcher that already exists as had been previously thought.

Seems that Twitch are planning to emulate Discord and indeed that’s their plan; they want to make sure that a stream’s community “can thrive even when the streamer is offline.” The Twitch Desktop App will enter into public beta testing on March 16th and will be available for download at twitch.tv.

For more information, check out the post on the subject made over on Twitch’s blog.