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# Good news: Google is buying Twitch. Bad news: live-stream Let’s Plays
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/looks-twitch-about-become-next-youtube/
- Published: 2014-05-19T18:29:42.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:37:18.000Z
- Description: According to which news outlet you ask, it has either been reported, confirmed, or unable to be confirmed that Google is acquiring the ever-popular videogame streaming service Twitch for a cool billion. This is just the latest indicator of how ungodly huge people watching other people playing games
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Google, Twitch TV, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

According to which news outlet you ask, it has either been reported, confirmed, or unable to be confirmed that [Google is acquiring the ever-popular videogame streaming service Twitch](http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/youtube-to-acquire-videogame-streaming-service-twitch-for-1-billion-sources-1201185204/?ref=killscreen.com) for a cool billion. This is just the latest indicator of how ungodly huge people watching other people playing games is. We saw last week that more online viewers watch Twitch than [HBO](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/twitch-now-huger-hbo-go/?ref=killscreen.com), and we already knew that it was a goliath in terms of [web traffic](http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/10/5390620/twitch-one-million-broadcasters-biggest-web-traffic?ref=killscreen.com). If [videogames are becoming the rest of the world’s R&D](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/it-isnt-technology-its-culture-listen-our-founder-speak-future-games/?ref=killscreen.com), and this is more evidence, as you have to imagine that Google isn’t only eyeing the company, but their streaming technology that has been perfected by *DOTA 2* players and watchers.

Keep it up games!