Beat Runner

This weekend, my friends are hosting a poker night, and I wanted to brush up on my poker skills. I haven’t played it…

Into The Breach is fiddly, tactical game where I have often taken three or four minutes to consider a single turn,…

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It’s a muggy, sleepy summer here in video game land, but esports does not rest. This weekend brings us a packed…

Eight years ago, Games Done Quick started as a handful of sleep-deprived speedrunners unexpectedly crammed into…

With the time-shattering feats and game-breaking exploits of Games Done Quick upon us, some video game players might…

Mario may be known for his background as a plumber, or his recent adventure as a body-snatching fashionista, but…

Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft and his son visit BitSummit

Speedrunner Illudude has been playing Wave Race 64 since it was released in 1996 on the Nintendo 64. Yesterday, be…

Super Mario Odyssey speedrunners often use glitches to grab tricky power moons or skip through major portions of the…