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Nathan Grayson
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Kotaku senior reporter. Beats: Twitch, streaming, PC gaming. Writing a book about streamers tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.

also yeah, the teleporting enemies are monstrous when you first encounter them, but good snipers can dismantle them pretty easily. just remember to avoid clumping your units together. teleporters have an ability that disables weapons, and they love to drop it on groups of units. Read more

the difficulty curve is definitely rough early on, but I’d advise playing with an eye toward setting up overwatch alleys. basically, send one unit forward until you can see enemies but can’t be seen. then position all your units so they’ve got good vantage points and put them on overwatch. have one unit (not on Read more

I hope they do a big expansion like enemy within! seems like xcom 2 sold reasonably well on pc, and it’s coming to consoles later this year. we’ll see what happens after that, I suppose Read more

so I decided to check in on xcom 2's steam workshop page and...

here I got this just for you

Other things that make this game sound great:

This is just the next phase of a Half-Life 3 announcement ARG that will last until the sea swallows the earth and the sun explodes. Read more

It can lead to some awkward situations, for sure. And it’s always a little weird when devs/PR solicit me for impressions on the spot because a) I haven’t had much time to think about it, and b) it’s not my job to give them feedback. I’m not a QA person or a beta tester. I’m not there to work on their game. Read more

Not to mention something to extract the banana bits you keep finding in its fans for some reason. Read more

I hope CD Projekt memorializes her with a Gwent card. It’s the least they can do. Read more

the holy grail of goofs. I never thought I’d see it in all my days. it’s beautiful Read more

hahahaha, I love the idea of a saints row v that’s set in the past and hyper serious, and you keep waiting for it to wink at you or break character, and then... Read more

Yeah, there wasn’t much of substance shown beyond... Fifa. But hey, that looked alright if you’re into that kinda thing. Read more

You are correct! I fixed it and then fired all of our internet gremlins for their mistake.* Read more

Oh man, I almost forgot about that one! So funny watching enemies flop around on the ground. Sad they never made a full game out of it. Read more

I had a similar thing going in Tribes Ascend. For whatever reason, if I was slightly past buzzed, my brain would be like, “I now have an intuitive understanding of complex trajectory dynamics.” To which I replied, “OK sure now please shoot that guy” Read more

The characters. However, I’ve yet to see any evidence that drinking in real life until you can’t feel your face won’t give you super powers.* It might even make you better at Wasted!** Read more