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Amazon completes its $970M acquisition of game-livestreaming firm Twitch

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Amazon has completed its $970 million acquisition of Twitch, the gameplay livestreaming company that it snatched away from Google.

The Seattle online commerce giant reported the closing of the deal today in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Amazon previously announced that it was buying Twitch, its largest-ever acquisition, on Aug. 25.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.