screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct was a much-hyped affair, with a whopping 40 minutes dedicated to the Japanese company’s portable console and its games. Most people kept their expectations somewhat in check for this, because Nintendo said that the event would largely focus on products coming out this holiday season. But that still … Read more
screenshot: nintendo There’s going to be a Nintendo Direct on Tuesday morning, September 13th, at10 am ET, Nintendo has just announced. It’s going to be a big one, too, with an estimated clock time of 40 minutes. We’re hoping we’ll get to hear about some of the bigger games Nintendo has been silent on for … Read more
screenshot: Acegamersam Samuel “Acegamersam” Girarowns a batch of video games. The 32-year-old Québécois has a vast library of classic console titles, including complete collections of North American Dreamcast and N64 games. Five years ago, with a fledgling Twitch channelGirard began streaming the Nintendo titles to a tiny audience. That audience quickly began to grow as … Read more
And they said it couldn’t be done…screenshot: FromSoftware No-hit runs in games—a kind of self-imposed challenge where you take zero damage from enemies—are nothing newespecially for tough-as-nails titles like Dark Souls. Aim Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Twitch streamer and YouTuber TheUrbanOrb has taken that feat to the extreme, and after more than three years of … Read more
Image: EA Another year, another Madden. This time around, however, EA devs promised the “most polished version” in years. The reality appears to be much different as negative reviews for in on Steam and Metacritic. In fact, even some NFL pros featured in the game are trashing it. “First game out on Madden 23 hung … Read more
Image: Sega And to think, it’s been two whole months since the phrase has bounced its way across a stage in curly font: “WORLD PREMIERE.” That changes this afternoon with Gamescom’s opening live stream. In recent years, Gamescom’s kickoff event, officially called Opening Night Live, has become one of the big three annual video game … Read more
screenshot: Bungie/IGDB They said it was impossible and, for nearly two decades, that seemed to be the case. But last night, a streamer named Jervalin beat Halo 2‘s “LASO deathless” challenge, earning a cool $20,000 in the process. Talk about finishing the fight. Let’s rewind. Earlier this summer, the YouTuber Charles “Cr1tikal” White Jr. posted … Read more
screenshot: Bungie/IGDB They said it was impossible and, for nearly two decades, that seemed to be the case. But last night, a streamer named Jervalin beat Halo 2‘s “LASO deathless” challenge, earning a cool $20,000 in the process. Talk about finishing the fight. Let’s rewind. Earlier this summer, the YouTuber Charles “Cr1tikal” White Jr. posted … Read more
screenshot: Twitch/JTX_Live/G5_Sin/Kotaku G5_Sin, a twitch streamer with a smidge over six thousand followers, grimaced and showed his gun to the camera. “I will fly this motherfucker to New York City, to Manhattan,” he said earlier in the stream about JTX_live, a mid-sized streamer based in the United Kingdom who has made few videos criticalizing G5 … Read more
Image: HelloGames Speculate no more! Hello Games revealed the next addition to the ever-expanding universe of No Man’s Sky. It’s called Endurance, and it’s loaded with additions to space (space biome?) and brings the thrills of taking charge of a fleet of starships to your screen. While past updates have broadened the selection of ships … Read more