Twitch moves to purchase video game community Curse
Amazon-owned Twitch, the live streaming platform, is to cement its focus on videogames with the purchase of Curse, a community and software producer dedicated to gaming, for an undisclosed sum.
By doing so Twitch will acquire a raft of websites, mod databases and guides for titles such as World of Warcraft, league of Legends and NFL titles as well as popular forums for games such as Minecraft, Pokemon and Diablo III.
Another innovation of Curse is an online meeting place for online team mates to gather and play with chat functionality and tolls for streaming games on Twitch or YouTube Gaming.
With significant synergies between Twitch and Curse in terms of their audience and players the deal should usher in a more seamless interplay between the services of both.