Did You Know Gaming? (shortened as DYKG) is an American blog and online show that started in May 2012. The website shares videos about interesting facts and trivia related to video games. Sometimes, it also does reports about forgotten games and lost secrets in the gaming world. Each video is narrated by well-known internet personalities and experts in the gaming field, such as JonTron, Arin Hanson, Smooth McGroove, David Hayter, and others.
Since it began, the website has been mentioned in many major news and gaming websites, including Huffington Post, MCV, Game Informer, MTV, Nerdist, and the Houston Press.
In 2017, Did You Know Gaming? started a second channel called DYKG Clips (previously named Did You Know Gaming? 2).
History
The site started on May 14, 2012, created by Shane Gill. He had the idea for a website focused on gaming trivia after seeing Facebook groups about trivia. By July 2012, the official Facebook page had almost 20,000 fans in less than eight weeks. As of January 2022, the official YouTube channel has over 2,300,000 subscribers and more than 580 million video views.
On January 25, 2014, Did You Know Gaming partnered with a relaunched website called Normal Boots. This website was created by Jon Jafari and Austin Hargrave to share gaming-related content. A new series called Did You Know Movies was also started on the The Film Theorists channel. Later, this series moved to the NormalBoots YouTube channel, where most of the original videos were revised.
On July 7, 2017, Did You Know Gaming? introduced a new channel. This channel features content created by Dazz, who also makes The Spriters Resource and Region Locked, and Greg, who also works on Region Locked. The channel has a more casual style and focuses on adding extra content to support the main channel. It includes its own versions of two main shows: Did You Know Gaming? Extra and Region Locked Light. As of April 2021, this second channel has over 160,000 subscribers and more than 4.1 million video views.
On November 21, 2017, the team announced that Region Locked Light would end and that Did You Know Gaming? Extra would move to the main channel. At that time, they had few plans for the second channel. One idea was using it to promote smaller trivia and gaming channels.
On June 29, 2020, Did You Know Gaming? 2 was renamed DYKG Clips, which collects clips from Did You Know Gaming? and Did You Know Gaming? Extra.
On April 23, 2022, they announced they would release one-hour videos from DYKG Clips as podcasts.
On April 28, 2023, the channel was hacked by cryptocurrency scammers.
Content
The website shares videos that include fun facts about different video game series. Some of the series covered are Star Fox, Pikmin, Super Smash Bros., Metroid, and others. A particular series named Easter Egg Hunting explores hidden secrets and Easter Eggs found in games related to specific shows or individual games, such as South Park, Doctor Who, and Metal Gear Solid.
VGFacts
VGFacts is a sister website of Did You Know Gaming? It launched in March 2013 and shares gaming-related facts. The site was created with The Spriters Resource. It includes information about thousands of games, game series, and video game consoles. The website also has articles about different topics, and some articles are written by Konami, a game publisher.
Reception
The site has been well-received by critics. Hamza Aziz, CEO of Destructoid, praised the site, saying, "The Did You Know Gaming series is a very interesting look at the lesser known facts of your favorite video games." Steve Napierski, author of the webcomic series Dueling Analogs, has posted about Did You Know Gaming? multiple times, stating, "I have shared many Did You Know Gaming? videos on my webcomic. I am a big fan of them."