Surely we have all at least heard of Twitch by now. For the as-yet uninitiated: imagine you had your own TV channel. What would you do on it? Although Twitch really got going as a place for gamers to ...

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 ...