‘Twitch plays politics’: Gaming service to stream GOP and Dem conventions

Twitch has announced that it plans to livestream the upcoming political conventions, giving people who are already fed up with the current election season and depressed by their political choices a whole new forum to confirm their worst fears about the future of America.

Amazon-owned Twitch is, of course, best known for its wildly successful service that lets people stream their video game exploits. But Twitch has been slowly adding other streaming topics, and politics is yet another departure from its core content.