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Twitch makes it easier to find Twitch Plays Pokémon-style games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Social video platform Twitch is encouraging players to jointly play games together via livestreams, such as the now-famous Twitch Plays Pokémon.

To do that, the San Francisco company has created a new “Twitch Plays” directory to make it easier for viewers to discover such games. In Twitch Plays Pokémon, viewers watch a live game and issue their own commands in the chat window of the video. That turns the game into a live, crowdsourced experience where every player can interact and influence the outcome.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.