By day, Brenden McCormack is a developer at Wargaming, working on World of Tanks. In his spare time, though, he’s…

The idea underlying Twitch extension Crowd Control is not wholly new. Since the dawn of time, people have messed…
On Friday, the charity speedrunning stream hit one million dollars for US charity Prevent Cancer Foundation. Late on…
Metroid games are so much better when the story is as subtle as possible. On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we…
Here’s cosplayer Dani Buzzini channeling Samus Aran with a suit that not only looks the part, but lights up as well.

Imagine: You’re playing Link to the Past, the seminal Super Nintendo action-adventure game, and you walk into a…
Sometimes, it just isn’t enough to speedrun a game. Sometimes, you need to get your hands dirty. One speedrunner…

Speedrunning is often best known of the amazing records it produces. The practice that goes into producing those…

The SNES is old. As much as I love the first Mario Kart, going back and loading up the Mode 7 graphics of Bowser…
At the biannual Games Done Quick speedrunning marathon, there’s always an ongoing contest: In Super Metroid, should…

Super Metroid has one of the most famous themes in video games. If you’ve ever wondered where it came from, you’ve…

It’s been a little over two decades since Super Metroid debuted on the Super Nintendo, and it’s lost none of its…