1UPdate: The Game Awards 2022

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

1UPdate: See the first Grammy nominations for best video game score

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

1UPdate: The underdogs take Worlds 2022

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

1UPdate: Horror game recommendations

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

1UPdate: Popular Twitch streamer Amouranth reveals domestic violence

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

1UPdate: Getting through the ‘dead period’

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

1UPdate: Report shows extremist recruiters are targeting young gamers

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

1UPdate: School teacher brings gaming to the classroom

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

1UPdate: Learn about the biggest influencers in gaming

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

1UPdate: A newcomer’s guide to gaming terminology

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

1UPdate: Harassment campaigns are increasingly common in gaming communities

While video games can be a source of fun for millions of people, gaming culture has a really uncomfortable relationship...

1UPdate: Are esports the sports of the future?

Esports (short for electronic sports) have a long history going all the way back to the '70s, but today are...