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Your Guide To Crafting The Perfect Gaming TikTok For You Page
10.1.2023
Before I downloaded TikTok—which is currently the most downloaded app in the world—headlines tried to spook me over vile, international plots to siphon personal data. Grown ups (anyone at least six years older than me) tsk, tsked my generation’s shriveled attention spans, and offline advocates...
Twitch Streamer Plays FromSoftware Games In A Truly Absurd Way
10.1.2023
Spend any time on the internet—whether Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube—and you’ve likely seen some streamer doing some absurd-ass playthrough of a Soulsborne game (probably Elden Ring). Whether it’s beating Margit with a harp or two Malenias simultaneously (one with a dance pad), there are some wild...
AI-Controlled VTuber Streams Games On Twitch, Denies Holocaust
6.1.2023
Neuro-sama is a VTuber who streams Minecraft and the rhythm game Osu! on Twitch. But unlike most anime avatars, she’s controlled by an artificial intelligence program rather than a human being. That makes her catnip for the denizens of Twitch chat, who can prompt her to respond with all sorts...
Drama: New Overwatch 2 Patch Buffs Moira’s Pee Charge
6.1.2023
The latest Overwatch 2 patch notes have dropped alongside a cool, Ancient Greece-themed limited time mode, and the Moira detractors are absolutely going to hate this announcement. Alongside a few bug fixes, several characters got adjustments in this latest update, and Moira’s will only add to...
Logan Paul Says Some Of His NFT Game Devs Were 'Con Men,' But He Didn't Scam
4.1.2023
After keeping his mouth shut for roughly two weeks, Logan Paul has finally opened up about his blockchain NFT “game,” CryptoZoo, in a response video to investigative YouTuber Stephen “Coffeezilla” Findeisen. However, if you were hoping for some sort of explanation of what went wrong with...
Madden Chaos Continues With Wiped Saves And Botched Presents
4.1.2023
It’s a new year and Madden NFL 23 is still in shambles. One of the crown jewels in Electronic Arts’ sports game monopoly, the latest entry continues to find new ways to piss off some of the series’ most diehard players. Busted in-game holiday gifts? Locked game modes? Wiped franchise saves? Poor...
Twitch Streamer and NFT Founder DNP3 Admits to Gambling Away Investor Funds
4.1.2023
His projects, including The Goobers NFT and charity-focused cryptocurrency CluCoin, were down following the announcement. It's unclear how much money was lost
Twitch Star Apologizes For 'Insensitive' Comeback Stream
3.1.2023
Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo, the embattled Twitch streamer who was suspended from gaming organization One True King (OTK) last September amid allegations that he helped cover up an alleged sexual assault, has apologized for the “insensitive” and “tone-deaf” behavior he displayed in a broadcast from...
The Year In Twitch Pol Himbo King Hasan Piker
29.12.2022
Hasan Piker is many things. He’s a hardcore himbo, an amateur gamer, and frequent heated moment haver. He speaks to legions of young men, women, and enbys on the internet almost every day via his wildly popular Twitch channel, and feeds their parasocial bond via his other social media channels....
Twitch Streamer Pokimane Wants Tougher Laws On Revenge Porn
28.12.2022
One of the biggest female streamers on Twitch wants to take a harder stance on revenge porn—nude photos that are posted online without their owners’ consent. Imane “Pokimane” Anys said in a recent Twitch stream that it should be “illegal” to possess nudes without their owners’ consent, and that...
The 10 Biggest Kotaku Posts Of 2022
26.12.2022
What did Kotaku readers click on this year? Once you see the list of 2022's top 10 posts below, the topics likely won’t be too surprising. Things like Pokémon, hentai, and and fast food are practically internet catnip. You might read about them even as you curse your curiosity about these...
Game Awards Photoshops Bill Clinton Kid Out Of Elden Ring Speech
22.12.2022
The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up on stage and muttering nonsense about “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a picture celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s second...
Streamer Dislocates Knee Playing Call Of Duty
21.12.2022
Have you ever caused yourself any genuine, physical harm while playing a video game? My thumb tore open after playing Gran Turismo endurance races for a week back in 1998, and I once kicked a table doing some kung fu shit for an EyeToy game. That’s about it. I have never, unlike this poor guy, done...
Overwatch 2 Holiday Mode Brings Back Enemy Freezing For Sickos Who Miss It
15.12.2022
Overwatch 2’s various reworks and balance changes have fundamentally altered several characters from their original forms, and that shift means a lot of mechanics that were once key to the original game no longer exist in the sequel. This came as part of a larger change in the game to remove...
The Game Awards 2022: Where To Watch And What To Expect
8.12.2022
It’s that time of the year again: Geoff Keighley’s annual Game Awards ceremony will be held today, December 8, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles at 4:30 p.m. local time / 7:30 p.m. ET. Are you going to watch along with us? Read more
Twitch Star Hasan Piker Banned After Rebroadcasting Unhinged Kanye Interview
7.12.2022
It happened again: Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker, Twitch’s top political commentator, just got hit with another ban hammer. However, this time, it’s not because he called white people “cracker”. Instead, it was due to apparent copyright infringement for watching an interview with rapper-turned-antisemite...
Twitch Star Is Hawking A New Livestreaming Platform Owned By Banned Gambling Site
7.12.2022
A few months ago, the growing presence and influence of gambling sites on Twitch motivated the platform’s top personalities to threaten to strike. Pressure from top streaming celebrities like Pokimane pushed the Amazon-owned site to ban crypto gambling site Stake.com and others that “aren’t...
Twitch Streamer Amouranth Receives $70,000 In Cash, Private Security From Anonymous Donor
6.12.2022
29-year-old Kaitlyn Siragusa, who variety streams on Twitch as Amouranth, has not had an easy year. She pushed her offline extracurriculars, buying an inflatable pool company and building her investments, but her public life got overshadowed by her brutally candid disclosure that she was in...
Amouranth se po skandálu vrátila na Twitch, místo svlékání zase hraje hry
3.12.2022
Jedna z nejpopulárnějších streamerek světa v říjnu šokovala své fanoušky, když oznámila rozchod se svým manželem, který ji měl podle jejích slov zneužívat. Nyní je zpátky a tvrdí, že život je opět skvělý
Army Planned To Spend Millions On Twitch And Call Of Duty To Recruit Gen Z
2.12.2022
The U.S. Army’s gamer to soldier pipeline is hardly a secret at this point, but new documents show its recent, detailed plans to spend millions to recruit Gen Z through gaming-related sponsorships and ad campaigns. The partnerships ranged from Call of Duty Twitch streamers to sponsoring content...