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Take-Two made $22M on its investment in gameplay livestreaming king Twitch

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Take-Two Interactive Software chairman Strauss Zelnick can thank Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for this: The publisher reported that it received $22 million as it cashed out its investment in Twitch, the gameplay livestreaming company.

Amazon acquired Twitch for $970 million in September. That means that Take-Two held about 2.3 percent of the ownership of Twitch. No doubt Take-Two is happy with its return, although the company did not say what the initial investment was.

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.