Fans of Twitch now have a big reason to pay $99 a year for Amazon Prime, and it's called Twitch Prime. Announced today at the annual TwitchCon in San Diego, the new service lets fans of the game-streaming website enhance their experiences in a variety of ways: Free game downloads, free in-game items, and ad-free viewing of Twitch streams, for example. Prime members will also be able to subscribe to a new Twitch channel every 30 days, an option that usually costs $4.99, for free.
Kicking off the program, a new character in Blizzard's popular game Hearthstone will be exclusive, for the next month, to Twitch Prime members. You can become one by simply linking your Twitch and Amazon accounts, if you have Prime.
