Nathan Grayson

Enderal Is More Than A Mod, It’s A Whole New Skyrim

Enderal is a Skyrim mod that’s been in development for years. I’ve been playing for hours, and I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface. Enderal is a total conversion mod that adds a new, nearly-Skyrim-sized continent, loads of sidequests and secrets, and a whole new plot with its own lore and Chosen One. It…

Blizzard Reveals New Overwatch Map, Eichenwalde

Overwatch is about to get its first post-launch map. It’s a castle village in Germany with a distinctly medieval vibe, and it’s called Eichenwalde. Blizzard revealed the map at Gamescom in—wait for it—Germany. Pretty cheeky, Blizz. Here’s a video: It’s an Assault/Escort hybrid map, and it’s got an Omnic Crisis (read: robot apocalypse) related story…

Life Unfolds crams an entire lifetime into 30 minutes. You go from the womb to the grave, experiencing everything from childhood friendships, to your first kiss, to marriage, to raising a kid of your own. It looks cute, but your time is painfully limited. Every choice counts. It’s on Steam Greenlight right now, and it’ll…

Titanfall 2‘s Beta Is Skipping PC

It’s a tradition as old as… well, probably a few years, anyway. A game’s beta drops, and PC players crack it open in hopes of suckling out sweet morsels of information. Respawn’s seen it happen, and they’ve decided it’s just not worth the risk with Titanfall 2. Betas, while limited in content and scope, invariably…

Overwatch‘s Competitive Mode Is About To Get An Overhaul

Overwatch’s first competitive season is winding down in a couple days, but season two is set to kick off in a few weeks. If you didn’t love season one, Blizzard’s really hoping season two will be more to your liking. In a new video, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan broke down the upcoming changes to competitive…

Sorry, I’m Not Making The Five Nights At Freddy’s Movie

Everyone, I have a confession to make: I, Nathan Grayson of Kotaku dot com, am not making the Five Nights At Freddy’s movie. I just really feel the need to set the record straight on that. OK, time for some backstory: Last year, it was announced that Warner Bros had picked up the rights to…

Reigns Combines Ruling A Kingdom With Tinder

Swipe right. Long live the king! Swipe left. The king is dead. I just got done spending an hour with Reigns, a fun little Steam/iOS/Android game where you swipe right and left to make decisions that will ultimately save or ruin your entire kingdom. Oh, and your life. The game can be quite treacherous (I’ve…

Blizzard Is Making Overwatch More Responsive On PC

It’s been known for a while that Overwatch has a lower tick rate—that is, how often servers update to reflect what players are doing—than most other competitive first-person shooters. Thankfully, Blizzard’s finally upping it on PC. While Blizzard has said that Overwatch uses predictive server techniques to make up for the potential delay produced by…

Overwatch’s Reaper sure uses up a lot of guns. This SFM short by ArcadeCloud explores where his guns might come from and why he doesn’t just, you know, keep them. It made me laugh.

One Of The Best Pro DOTA 2 Matches In Years

DOTA 2‘s $20 million International tournament is in full swing, and so far, it’s delivered. If you’re looking for the must-see match of the tournament, try the back-and-forth-and-back-and-forth-and-back-again showdown between EG and EHOME. Here are some highlights: You can watch the full game on Twitch The North America vs China clash was characterized by momentum…

A List Of Stories We Found On Kotaku In The Year 2030

I can’t believe it’s been 14 years since 2016, a year I’ve decided to fixate on for no particular reason. The only thing more surprising than how things have changed is the way they’ve remained the same. Whoa Kotaku isn’t going anywhere. We’re celebrating Senior Week as a transition from one era to the next,…

Overwatch Cosplayers Critique Overwatch Porn

In case you haven’t heard by now, Overwatch porn is big. Search in the right corners of the Internet, and you’ll find sticky mountains of the stuff. The question on, well, somebody’s mind: what do people who like to pretend they are these characters think? Cosplay stunt mastermind D Piddy put four cosplayers—Kadu Out as…

Some Of The Best Starbound Mods

Starbound is massive. Here are some mods to help you make it massive-er Despite the fact that it “launched” only a couple weeks ago, Starbound has been in various states of Early Access for years. The quadrillion-planet-strong side-scrolling space sandbox has a mod community nearly as vast as its universe. Here are a few (but…

High Ranked Overwatch Player Cheats On Stream, Gets Banned Mid-Match

Got a sweet Overwatch strat for you today: never cheat. In this video posted by KiD x, a top-200 ranked Korean Overwatch player streams with an aimbot, a type of hack that essentially aims for you. It does not end well. They don’t even try to hide their bot’s lifeless mechanical maneuvering, and then, at…

The Internet’s Shrek Obsession, Explained

Shrek is love. Shrek is life. If you’ve spent more than a few seconds of your life on the Internet, you’ve probably seen a Shrek meme. Maybe it involved Smash Mouth’s seminal 1999 hit “All Star,” the song that inspired a whole generation to unite in shared mockery of Smash Mouth. Or maybe it involved……

Want the true D.Va experience? Try playing Overwatch with flight sticks. That’s what streamer Rudeism did, with full face paint for good measure. There was a bit of an acclimation period, but he managed some strong plays before it was all said and done.

Blizzard Warns Players Not To Use Overwatch‘s Lucioball Character Glitch

Overwatch’s Lucioball mode is all fun and games until D.Va or Widowmaker shows up, and somebody loses an eye. Or a head. It’s a bizarre glitch, and Blizzard has some advice for people taking advantage of it: don’t. What began as something of a funny prank has turned into a game-breaking exploit. Some people have…

Overwatch player acutefatcat lost their whole team, so the other team decided to be cool about it. I’ve heard a few stories like this, and it warms my heart each time. Overwatch can be toxic sometimes, but it’s fostered a uniquely rad community in some places. Here’s the full clip: And here’s a pic of…

Overwatch‘s First Competitive Season Ends In Two Weeks

Overwatch’s competitive mode has been a divisive subject for much of its first season, but Blizzard stated upfront that change is in the cards. Season two is just around the corner. Blizzard announced that season one will end on August 17 at 5 PM PT. Season two is currently scheduled to kick off on September…

Valve Closes Steam Cheating Loophole

Steam’s VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) and game ban systems can block people from playing games they’ve cheated in, no questions asked. But where there’s a will to break the rules, there’s almost always a way. One tactic Steam cheaters use is to stockpile giftable versions of games on one account (often during Steam sales) and then…