Kotaku • May 14 2022

Mass Shooting Apparently Planned On Discord, Streamed On Twitch, Investigated As Hate Crime [Updated] - Kotaku

Tragedy struck New York on May 14 as an 18-year-old white male shot and killed at least 10 people and wounded three others in the New York city of Buffalo, police said. The shooter, whose online username is reportedly “jimboboiii,” has been taken into custody after livestreaming the whole thing on the gaming platform Twitch, the company told Kotaku on Saturday evening. The shooter released a 180-page manifesto detailing his racist and anti-Semitic views, which he partially attributed to the cont...

Complex • October 9 2024

Florida Man ‘Lieutenant Dan’ Goes Viral Amid Hurricane Mi...

UPDATED 10/10, 2:19 p.m. ET: Lieutenant Dan, the Florida resident who refused to evacuate his boat in Tampa Bay, has survived Hurricane Milton’s landfall.Speaking with Kevin O'Donnell, a reporter at Fox 13, Malinowski stated that the experience was not as bad as he expected it to be.“Was it as bad as you thought?” O’Donnell asked, to which Malinowski replied “No.”See original story below.As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida’s coast, many residents are taking to social media to explain their ch...

GameSpot • September 24 2025

Former Pokemon Legal Chief "Wouldn't Touch" Homeland Security Video That Used Ash Ketchum

In response to the Department of Homeland Security's video using Ash Ketchum to promote ICE, The Pokemon Company's ex-legal chief said he "wouldn't touch" it, suggesting some possible reasons why the company might not pursue legal action.This week, Homeland Security posted a video to X of an arrest compilation. In between footage of ICE agents handcuffing people at their homes and in their cars are clips from the OG Pokemon TV series, with the famed "Gotta catch 'em all" theme playing in the bac...

Kotaku • July 17 2023

FBI Used Nintendo Switch To Locate Abducted Child [Update] - Kotaku

The FBI used a Nintendo Switch console to locate an abducted 15-year-old girl, who had been missing for 11 days back in August 2022, Forbes reports. In a horrendous case involving kidnap and sexual exploitation, a teenage girl was found and rescued only after she logged online with her Nintendo Switch. The unidentified Virginian teenager is a homebody, said family and friends, and unlikely to run away. However, she met a stranger—then 28-year-old Ethan Roberts—on the online chatting platform Ome...

Kotaku • February 2 2023

The Truth Behind Those Wild TikTok Videos Meant To Hack Your Attention - Kotaku

If you spend any time on TikTok, you may have noticed that a certain kind of video collage is popping up all over your For You page. Maybe it has a clip of the adult cartoon Family Guy in there, or socialist Twitch streamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker talking about Black Lives Matter. But no matter the footage, it’s likely one of the other panels will be playing gameplay of mobile endless runner game Subway Surfers. And if you’re confused about what the hell is going on, well, great! Because I was, t...

GameSpot • September 17 2025

Florida Sets Its Lawsuit Sights On Porn Games

Florida has set its lasers to "sue" as the Sunshine State moves to attack porn games and their distributors in court.As reported by the Tallahassee Democrat, Florida's attorney general James Uthmeier filed two separate lawsuits against Lustyheroes.com and the parent company of Nutaku.net and SpiceVids.com. The dual suits allege that these websites have violated HB 3, the state law that went into effect in January and forced explicit websites to verify the ages of Florida users.According to Uthme...

Kotaku • March 4 2024

Destiny And Halo Composer Is Running For Congress - Kotaku

Video games and Washington politics are converging in a way you might not have had on your 2024 bingo card. Martin “Marty” O’Donnell, the composer behind Bungie’s Destiny and Halo games, has announced his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Nevada’s third congressional district on March 3 as a Republican, challenging the current Democratic incumbent Susie Lee.O’Donnell declared his bid for the congressional seat on Twitter, in a post championing “the traditional family” and securin...

Kotaku • November 2 2023

Now Is The Time For Universal Video Game Accessibility Guidelines - Kotaku

As Kotaku’s resident Soulsbud, I was stoked to check out the action-Soulslike RPG Lords of the Fallen when it debuted back in mid-October, so I booted it up and immediately navigated to the settings menu. This is always my first stop when starting any game, to ensure I can actually play the thing.But that wasn’t the case with developer CI Games’ new hotness. Despite fiddling with the minimal accessibility options, I still found myself unable to read much of the text, let alone move through most...

Kotaku • February 28 2023

It’s About Damn Time Games ‘Git Gud’ At Black Hair - Kotaku

When you think of Black hair in games, what comes to mind? Maybe a clean set of cornrows? What about some dreadlocks? Or, and this is probably the most likely, do you think of an afro, a Caesar fade, or just a bald scalp? This litmus test is a conversation that’s been raging in the games industry for as long as games have featured playable protagonists and character creators. Even former Kotaku staffer Evan Narcisse took the discourse to task in his essay on the difficulties depicting Blackness...

Complex • October 17 2025

To Catch A Predator’s Chris Hansen Is Still Doing It All ...

Trigger warning: child predation, suicide.Before internet personalities like Jidon Armani Adams and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy broadcast their crusades to catch child predators during livestreams, Chris Hansen was doing it on network television in the 2000s.Maybe you’ve heard of him. A baking-apprentice-turned-investigative-journalist from Chicago, Hansen is best known for his Dateline NBC show To Catch a Predator. Running from 2004-2007, the program was something of an odd phenomenon on television. Wh...

Complex • October 17 2025

Kai Cenat Is The Biggest Streamer Right Now, According To...

If you were asked who the biggest streamer right now is, what would your answer be? If you’re the TwitchCon attendees, it’s likely that your response to that question would almost universally be echoed: Kai Cenat.While at TwitchCon 2024 in sunny San Diego, California, Complex stopped anyone and everyone who was down to chat about their thoughts on who the biggest streamer is. While Kai Cenat emerged as the clear favorite, the top of the mountain isn’t lonely for him. According to regular-degular...

Complex • October 17 2025

We Spoke To Anime Avatar Twitch Streamer Ironmouse Who Su...

At the tail end of September, the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch posted a celebratory tweet to its official X account. Streamer Ironmouse smashed the world record for the most subscribers on the platform at over 321,000, a number that eclipsed AMP star creator Kai Cenat’s March 2023 record of 306,621.There was a lot of praise for the impressive achievement. Creators such as fighting game streamer Koefficient and variety YouTuber Ludwig gave Ironmouse her flowers. Meanwhile, some stre...