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Blizzard announces Twitch integration with Battle.net

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Twitch and Battle.net accounts are about to hook up.

Blizzard announced today that Twitch users can now log into their Battle.net accounts in the game-streaming service. To encourage players to do so, Blizzard is giving anyone who watches a Heroes of the Storm regional championship while logged into a linked Twitch/Battle.net account an exclusive character portrait for Heroes of the Storm, as seen below.

Esports are a big business now, and Blizzard obviously has a huge stake in it with popular competitive games like StarCraft II, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and Heroes of the Storm. Twitch is the most popular site for streaming live gameplay, including tournaments, so this partnership benefits both parties.

The Storm Watcher.
The Storm Watcher.

A post on Blizzard’s site details how Twitch users can integrate their Battle.net accounts. Twitch users can already connect their accounts to their Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 usernames.

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