According to sources close to Venture Beat, Google has sealed the deal to buy Twitch. The price tag was a little bit on the hefty side with the company paying a cool $1 billion, and together with YouTube, Google now has a really powerful video empire.
This May, Twitch alone accounted for 1.35% of the internet traffic in North America (source: Variety) and it makes it easy to follow famous players and watch professional gaming. Twitch often has more than one million viewers, and it boasts over 50 million users. How and if this will affect the Twitch apps for Playstation 4 and Xbox One remains to be seen.