It's like some kind of unholy convergence of every modern gaming trend. Thousands upon thousands of people wrestling for one digital controller, eyes captivated and attentions fixed, willing Red to ...

Twitch Plays Pokemon will continue as long as viewers are interested, according to the channel's creator. Speaking with Polygon, the Australian programmer - who wishes to remain anonymous — said at ...

Twitch Plays Pokemon is celebrating its third anniversary of the pocket monsters play through by playing a heavily modified version of Pokemon Yellow en masse. Believe it or not, it's been three years ...

As usual with any Pokémon game, you play as the protagonist after choosing a name for your trainer. But in the lore of Twitch Plays Pokémon, your character is only the tip of the Poké-iceberg. But ...

Collaboration and chaos. TwitchPlaysPokémon embodies both at the same time. But it’s almost over already. As an army of 50,000 players prepares for Pokémon Red’s final dungeon and bosses, several ...

Twitch Plays Pokemon became an internet phenomenon following its arrival last month, and the creator of the viewer-driven stream has every intention to continue broadcasting. As long as there are ...

When I began my phone call Sunday evening with T.L. Taylor, an associate professor of comparative media studies at MIT, I opted to check her loyalty to the one, true Helix god. "All sensible people ...

It has been argued that, given infinite time, a roomful of monkeys banging on typewriters eventually will recreate the entire work of Shakespeare. OK, fine, but if you replaced those typewriters with ...

In anticipation of Pokemon Brilliant DIamond and Shining Pearl releasing on Nintendo Switch, Brian Saviano plays through one of the games that started it all! Pokemon Platinum is the refined older ...

On Feb. 12, 2014, Twitch Plays Pokémon began with a strange but simple premise. The pitch: A Twitch bot would play and complete Pokémon Red, controlled entirely by viewers who ordered the bot to press ...

Something strange is happening in the region of Johto. There's a young boy wandering the countryside with a Totodile, and he's behaving irrationally --he's walking in circles, banging into trees, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook There are a lot of oddities in the world of Pokemon. There are Pokemon that are ghosts, that are ...