Apr 16
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Colors mean different things to different people, but very specific colors mean the exact same thing to everybody…
Nathan Grayson
nathangrayson
Kotaku senior reporter. Beats: Twitch, streaming, PC gaming. Writing a book about streamers tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.
Apr 15
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It’s no secret that Twitch has a problem with viewbots, which are fake viewers that artificially inflate streamers’…
Apr 15
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I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a character creator as aggressively bland as the one in Outriders. All the faces…
Apr 14
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On March 14, Ludwig Ahgren started a stream with no set end date. Last night, an entire month later, it finally…
Apr 13
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For 31 days, Ludwig Ahgren’s stream has been up and running all day every day. He hasn’t been awake the entire time,…
Apr 13
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If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more…
Apr 13
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Kingdom Hearts III has been out on PC for less than two weeks. Anyway, here’s Thomas the Tank Engine.
Apr 9
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Memes. These days, they’re everywhere. They are the pillars upon which internet culture—and by extension, pop…
Apr 9
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As of last month, the age of NFTs was officially upon us. As of this month, it might be on its way out. Average…
Apr 7
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The past year has not been kind to, uh, basically anybody, but Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter is one of the (generally…
Apr 7
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Many Twitch streamers have YouTube channels, and vice versa. They also have Twitter pages, Instagrams, TikToks,…
Apr 6
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Last night, Genshin Impact began trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Which ones, exactly? Well, that’s…
Apr 5
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Thanks to the endlessly depressing extent to which covid has kept everybody trapped inside, Discord is more relevant…
Apr 5
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A free update to a masterpiece? That adds full voice acting, new quests, and a slew other of bonus features? Gee,…
Apr 2
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Once upon a time, Shigeru Miyamoto famously said, “A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever.”…
Apr 2
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Twitch trends come and go, but one thing remains constant: the endless debate around what women should be allowed to…
Mar 31
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Sometimes, you just decide that you’ve gotta fix something, and you’re not going to rest until you’ve won a battle…
Mar 31
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Today, the top streamer on Twitch was forced to quit mid-stream because, he says, he forgot to pay his power bill.…
Mar 30
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Reused NPCs. An environment you’ve already spent dozens of hours in. Contrived progress gating based on time. On…
Mar 29
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Today, Activision Blizzard announced the promotion of Blizzard chief commercial officer and the chief operating…