Integrating commentary content and gameplay content over a multi-user platform

A system for gameplay view selection for commentary, the system comprising:

• a network interface to communicate in a communication network, wherein the network interface:
• receives a plurality of different media streams that correspond to a plurality of in-game views of a game session of a game title, and
• receives commentary content that corresponds to an active display during a time period;
• and
• a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:
• identifies one of the in-game views of at least one of the media streams corresponds to one or more milestone events defined for the game title, wherein information regarding the one or more milestone events is stored in the memory, and wherein the one or more of the milestone events are in-game events completed based on in-game actions by user-controlled characters,
• selects the at least one identified media stream to include in the active display, and
• synchronizes the commentary content as received relative to the time period of the at least one identified media stream;
• wherein the network interface distributes the synchronized content via a gameplay channel accessible to one or more subscriber devices.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having software encoded thereon, the software executable by a processor to perform a method for gameplay view selection for commentary, the method comprising:

• storing information regarding one or more milestone events defined for a game title;
• receiving a plurality of different media streams that correspond to a plurality of in-game views of a game session of the game title;
• identifying one of the in-game views of at least one of the media streams that corresponds to one or more of the milestone events, wherein the one or more of the milestone events are in-game events completed based on in-game actions by user-controlled characters;
• selecting the at least one identified media stream to include in an active display;
• receiving commentary content that corresponds to the active display during a time period;
• synchronizing the commentary content as received relative to the time period of the at least one identified media stream;
• and
• distributing the synchronized content via a gameplay channel accessible to one or more subscriber devices.