Some would tell you that The Game Awards are gaming’s Academy Awards. Those people are hilariously wrong, given that…
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Nathan Grayson
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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.
If you search any popular Twitch streamer’s name on YouTube, you’ll find countless videos scraped from their…
Far-right groups that often employed Nazi-inspired language have long been able to create ugly little dens on Steam…
In the annals of holiday lore it said that, every year, after circling the globe on a carpet-sized copy of Death…
Top streamers Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo, Saqib “Lirik” Zahid, and Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar have all signed “multi-year” exclusivity deals with Twitch. Twitch partners are technically exclusive to the platform already, so this is being billed as a “re-signing” in a time that’s seen popular streamers like Ninja, Shroud,…
Anybody can make an account on Twitch. It’s a quick, simple process that takes only a few minutes. You (a super…
Donkey Kong 64 stood out from the rest of the banana-obsessed Donkey Kong bunch. The DK Rap is, of course, its most…
Plenty of games offer players multiple solutions to problems. Fight or talk. Stick to the beaten path or explore.…
It’s not like Minecraft ever really went anywhere. But it definitely spent the past handful of years less firmly…
Halo: Reach, Bungie’s final entry in its second (of three, so far) series about armored space knights, is finally on…
Sometimes, as borders erode, new fissures form in their wake. In 2019, more games flowed between PC and other…
Everyone could benefit from therapy, especially streamers. While popular streamer Byron “Reckful” Bernstein’s…
If allowed to chatter and meme unchecked, Twitch chat can grow into an unstoppable avalanche of ugly behavior. Many…
Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, which means we have officially entered the swirling vortex of vacation days,…
We are gathered here today to bid farewell to the Steam Controller, the little gamepad that could in some cases, but…
There are more than 30,000 games on Steam. When Valve removes the odd offender for breaking the rules by, say, being…
Deep-pocketed companies like Valve and Oculus have been pushing virtual reality for years, but mainstream interest…
Despite a small crowd of diehards who went so far as to organize events in an attempt to save the game, Battleborn se…
World of Warcraft contains countless fantastical creatures with otherworldly powers. Legendary dragons,…