Twitch is buying IGDB to improve the quality of its informational database, and it plans to keep the IGDB's API public for other sites to use as well.

In a post on site Medium (via PCGamer) Jerome Richer De Forges – IGDB's product owner – talks a bit about what this means. He says "first things first: the API is here to stay, and we are ...

IGDB is only a 10-person team and had raised just $1.5 million to date, according to data from Crunchbase. From a strategic standpoint, however, the acquisition is much more impactful.