You Are the Castle

When you cover speedrunning for a while, you start to ask: “can I do that?” This weekend, I started doing my own…

Over the past three decades console game controllers have evolved from utilitarian rectangles to sleek works of…

Before the latest season of the big APEX Overwatch tournament series started, few knew the name Meta Athena. Now…

Ninja are mysterious. There are things we know and things we don’t. But the notion that some have about these ninja…

At last weekend’s PAX East, Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez and I had the chance to check out a ton of games in…

One week after release, the speedrun for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has fallen under one hour thanks to…

The Zelda timeline has long been a matter of dispute among fans, but after the release of Hyrule Historia, they…

Speedrunner Coolkid, aka DaBiGBoOi, won this weekend’s sixth ever Best of NES Big 20 Race, a competition in which…

Disney is at its best when it abandons pretense. Every great Disney animated film has that moment when the wheels…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…