Earlier today the official X account for Kick, the streaming platform known for courting controversy both with its gambling affiliations and its contentious content, announced a partnership with Xbox.
The vague announcement featured a picture of two people shaking hands, with one of them holding what appears to be a console box with the words “video game system” written on it and “Kick” in the center, and the Xbox logo obfuscated under the person’s hand. The text accompanying the picture reads: “kick [handshake emoji] xbox.”
kick 🤝 xbox pic.twitter.com/aDMEd62fdD
— KICK (@KickStreaming) December 17, 2025
Kotaku was able to independently confirm that there is now a dedicated Kick app on Xbox consoles. The description 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.”
Over the years, Kick has become known as the streaming place where banned and cancelled Twitch streamers go, a sort of safe space for bad behavior that has inked million-dollar deals with controversial content creators like Felix “xQc” Lengyel, Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff, and Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa.
Kick has rather loose community guidelines and minimal moderation, and has become a place where problematic streamers go to thrive. Adin Ross, the Andrew-Tate-loving streamer who was “indefinitely” banned on Twitch in 2023 for failing to moderate hate speech in his chat (the ban was overturned earlier this year), found success on Kick. It was there that he livestreamed an interview with then-former President Donald Trump, during which Ross gifted him a Rolex and a Cybertruck encased in a Trump-themed decorative wrap.
According to Rolling Stone, Ross also used Kick to livestream videos from a porn site and to platform an anonymous neo-Nazi.
Earlier this year, French streamer Raphaël “Jeanpormanove” Graven reportedly died in his sleep after a lengthy “humiliation” livestream on Kick in which he was assaulted by several other men.
The streaming platform is also heavily entwined with the gambling website Stake, which was co-founded by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, who also both founded, you guessed it, Kick. At the time of writing, there are over 81,000 people watching the “Slots and Casino” category on Kick. Twitch banned gambling back in 2022.
There is currently no app for Kick on the PlayStation Store.
Xbox has not responded to a request for comment.
