video games

January 9, 2023 Nate Bender

There’s one name that comes up in almost every edition of the 1UPdate. From starting as a 24/7 broadcast of...

December 15, 2022 Nate Bender

2022 was a big year for gaming. That’s why this July, WDET introduced the 1UPdate as a weekly segment on...

December 8, 2022 Nate Bender

The Game Awards of 2022 are tonight, Dec. 8, and six games will be vying for the coveted Game of...

December 5, 2022 Nate Bender

This February, someone will become the first-ever composer to win the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games...

November 10, 2022 Nate Bender

Kali Scales is a journalist for Esports Illustrated. She recently covered the League of Legends World Championships at the Chase...

October 31, 2022 Nate Bender

This Halloween, we wanted to talk about some scary video games. Like horror movies, horror was a well-established genre when...

October 27, 2022 Nate Bender

Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is a notoriously successful Twitch streamer. Before she started streaming in 2016, she was an impressive cosplayer....

October 13, 2022 Nate Bender

The gaming world is massive and all-encompassing. There’s always something going on, except for right now. Right now, it is...

September 29, 2022 Nate Bender

Young gamers are being recruited by right-wing extremists on Twitch. The Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) recently published a...

September 21, 2022 Nate Bender

A middle school math teacher is bringing gaming into the classroom. AlgeBruh is a gamer, a Valorant player and a...

September 19, 2022 Nate Bender

In this segment, we talk about some of the movers and shakers within the video game world. These are people...

September 9, 2022 Sophia Jozwiak

If you’re not a gamer but you live with one, their conversations might sound like they’re in a foreign language...