Minecraft creator Mojang released the 1.73 pre-release update last week for the PC and Mac version. While the release fixes some bugs, it also introduces the ability to broadcast Twitch streams directly from the open-world sandbox game.

The sharing of video gameplay apparently is the future of gaming, and Twitch is an increasingly powerful in this respect. A game like Minecraft, with its creativity and content sharing as key points, it may actually receive an injection of new opportunities through integration with Twitch. With the 1.7.3 update, Mojang is expected to be integrate broadcasting software with the game on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac OS X Lion 10.7 or higher.

“Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account,” says a post on developer Mojang’s official site. “Then in the game you may check the quality settings in Options -> Broadcast Options, or just go ahead and start broadcasting at any time by hitting F6. This key can be configured in the Controls options.”

Minecraft has struck a very powerful chord with the Twitch community last month at the annual Minecon event when the two companies shared an agreement. Twitch has quickly become the leading game streaming service on the web and the services currently available on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Amid the Twitch integration, there’s also a number of bug fixes included in 1.7.3 release including render distances above 8, unicode font text shadow in full screen mode, unicode fonts not showing properly, unicode font mapping a Korean character wrongly, crash issue when handling players, missing taskbar workbench icon on Windows, and re-logging of players instead of respawning.

Minecraft‘s recent 1.7.2 patch introduced new biomes, more trees, flowers, stained glass. According to the developers over a half-million lines of code have been altered in this groundbreaking patch that will, in a rather literal sense, change the world of Minecraft.

“Minecraft has remained a strong creative motivator in the online gaming community,” says Kyt Dotson, SiliconAngle junior editor, resident online gaming expert, and host of MMO Anthropology on Twitch.tv. “Over the past year we’ve seen numerous Minecraft live streams on Twitch, videos crop up on YouTube about buildings, megastructure construction, even redstone contraptions–such as those that can play music. Integrated Twitch streaming will open up a whole new avenue for players to interact socially with one another and show off their creations to friends.”

Interested in more information? Then look no further than Mojang’s blog post on the latest release.