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The aura of Twitch
How watching others play brings something new to the art of games.
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Going undercover in a virtual party game
How party game dynamics are influenced by a virtual space.
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Fish Plays Pokémon is exactly what it sounds like
Super effective!
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Was Twitch Plays Pokémon an anomaly or the way of the future?
Developers are placing their bets on the idea of “crowdplaying.”
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The unimpeachable optimism of Cosmochoria
The rise of shiny happy people … in deep space.
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Checking in on the chaotic, user-led iteration of please be nice :(
The game we keep mutating.
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You guys watched a freakish amount of esports last year
We totally get that the Internet is a fantastic place for binging DOTA 2 matches and all, but got-damn did you people consume a lot of it in 2013. A new report from IHS Technology, people who track this sort of thing, has found that a cumulative amount of 2.4 billion hours were streamed to your eyeh
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Good news: Google is buying Twitch. Bad news: live-stream Let’s Plays
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
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More online viewers watch Twitch than Game of Thrones
We already knew Twitch was big. We just didn’t know the extent of the popular game streaming service’s hugeness. Well, that’s become a little bit clearer with this new report on Internet traffic, which says that Twitch is bigger than HBO’s digital service Go. That means more online viewers are tunin
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This game puts the audience into the game of streamers. Too bad they might be wearing a bikini
Good news: Akiba’s Trip 2 for PlayStation 4 offers an inventive way to put the audience into the game of a person who is streaming. Bad news: The subtitle of the game is Undead & Undressed, the combat system involves stripping the clothes off foes in broad daylight, and it seems you have a half-dece
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Watch Twitch build a statue of itself in the upcoming Monument
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Be the first to beat this game and you can change it forever
What hath Twitch Plays Pokemon wrought?