The idea underlying Twitch extension Crowd Control is not wholly new. Since the dawn of time, people have messed with each others’ games for laughs. In the beginning, there was Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. These days, there are games like Choice Chamber, where users in Twitch chat can vote to change…
Watching Gregory “Mrgregles” Storey stream, there’s a good chance you’d never even realize he has Tourette Syndrome, a rare neurological condition characterized by repeated involuntary vocalizations and movements, or “tics.” From behind his drum kit, Storey grooves, showboats, and interacts with viewers like he’s been doing it all his life. He regularly puts on rockstar…
For the San Francisco Shock, locking up the first perfect stage in Overwatch League history was a nice cherry, but the team always had their eyes on the sundae: victory in Sunday’s stage two playoffs. Yesterday they once again faced off against Vancouver Titans, running back the stage one match-up that they lost (in what…
Streamers, like other humans who for some reason choose to not spend most of their day on camera, have to eat. Most streamers casually snack or have meals while streaming, which adds to the feeling that viewers are watching a regular person go about their daily routine. However, for Twitch’s headband-wearing money king Tyler “Ninja”…
There are many ways to be good at popular medieval combat game Mordhau. You can sling cold steel with the best of them. You can fire arrows from afar. You can build fortifications that help your buddies. But the only way to truly win, if you ask me, is to become the greatest lute player…
Video game conventions have their upsides; you get to play all the latest games and meet people who are interested in the same stuff as you. But big conventions are also a reminder that human beings are loud meat megaphones that constantly emit a dying bouquet of foul odors. Playing video game demos while overstimulated…
Track: Genesis | Artist: Devin Townsend | Album: Empath Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Barotrauma is a game where up to 16 players cooperatively pilot a submarine—in space. You play as a captain, engineer, mechanic, medic, or security officer to help your teammates survive or, ominously, “make sure no one does.” Along the way, you’ll explore alien ruins and the darkest corners of the deep space-sea. There’s a Sunless…
Back in February, the makers of the P.T.-inspired Steam horror game Devotion experienced a haunted house horror story of their own. The game came out, and at first, everything seemed to be going all right—great, even. Reviews were unanimously positive. Sales were good. Then players discovered a piece of in-game art that seemed to disparage…
“What happened to Numbani?” “Where is Numbani???” “When was the last time you played on Numbani?” These are just a handful of the many thread titles that have popped up on the Overwatch subreddit since the game’s “Storm Rising” update in the middle of April. Players, for some reason, could no longer bless the rains…
Stream long enough, and you become mercurial. Either that, or you watch the passion you once felt for your favorite game slowly fade into a hazy silhouette of duty. Over the past few weeks, big streamers who helped turn Grand Theft Auto V role-playing into a Twitch phenomenon have started to burn out even as…
Overwatch’s newest map, Havana, is now live. Set in Cuba, it sees you push a payload through streets, a warehouse, and colonial ruins. Prior to today, Havana was on the PTR for three weeks. It’s now in all versions of the game alongside a patch that includes new Overwatch League All-Star skins.
Games with good swordplay are rare. Multiplayer games with good swordplay are rarer still, like Excalibur of Arthurian legend. It’s no wonder, then, that Mordhau has cut through the clutter and laid siege to the Steam charts. Steam users are digging the heck out of it. Kotaku’s Ethan Gach described Mordhau as a game that’s…
Whether you’re a professional basketball player or whoever left that Starbucks cup on the Game of Thrones set, everybody has off nights. Well, everybody except the rejuvenated San Francisco Shock. After a messy first season, they’ve spent season two looking like an entirely different team. Yesterday, they achieved something no other team ever has: a…
Track: Mother Tongue (Orchestral Cover) | Artist: Shadow People (Original song by Bring Me The Horizon) | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Littlewood is a game about rebuilding your town after you helped save the world. Between farming and fulfilling requests for townspeople, there are some definite similarities to Stardew Valley here, but Littlewood puts an emphasis on building restoration and town design. It’ll be out sometime this month.
As part of her most recent revamp, Overwatch’s Symmetra gained the ability to fabricate teleporters into existence, but all they do is deconstruct heroes’ entire molecular structures and project them from point A to point B within a limited space. That’s a real drag. I mean, what’s the point of portals if you can’t put…
It’s Shrek. In Sekiro. Finally, we can all die. This mod for the PC version of the game, hotly anticipated by the whole of mankind since the dawn of time, comes to us by way of modders Dropoff and Katalash. It replaces the Chained Ogre miniboss with Shrek, an ogre forced into a quest to…
The internet, you might have heard, did not love Sonic’s recently revealed design for the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog movie. Now, thank the furry, blue heavens, it’s going to change. Today, director Jeff Fowler responded to all the criticism on Twitter “The message is loud and clear,” he said. “You aren’t happy with the design…
It’s been a long time since Overwatch’s winged flock of Mercy mains were entirely happy with the state of their favorite healer. A series of changes and nerfs had many feeling like she was less exciting to play than she used to be, and she didn’t fare well in the game’s now-waning GOATS meta. Some…
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