Nathan Grayson

Dad Quest is a game about hurling your child at all of your problems. See an enemy? Aim and throw. Kids have classes like scholar and jock and, like real children, can be upgraded with elemental powers. If you die, your kid grows up to be The Next Dad. Dad Quest is on Steam Greenlight,…

Steam Game Offers $35 DLC That’s Just A Certificate

Hadean Lands is a text adventure renowned for being good but tough. It’s been around for a couple years, and it just got a Steam release. Steam, of course, supports DLC. Hadean Lands’ developer decided to take advantage of that feature in an… unusual way. Hadean Lands itself is only $12, but if you want,…

A Third Of Valve Is Now Working On VR

Valve? More like VRlve. Hm, that doesn’t really work. Valve isn’t super big into dishing on whether they still make games these days, but they’ll talk your ear off about VR. Despite an overt effort to usher in The VR Age, it’s still kinda shocking to hear just how much of a concerted push Valve…

Overwatch Fans Have Turned Tracer Into A Completely Different Character

A major part of Overwatch’s appeal is character personality, but not because they’re overflowing with it, per se. Overwatch’s characters are colorful vessels for players to inhabit, foundations on which to build. Blizzard gives us their motivation, a bit of backstory, and some banter, but players’ imaginations are meant to do the heavy lifting. Unsurprisingly,…

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer: ‘We Will Ship Games On Steam Again’

If you’re a PC gamer, the big news out of E3 this year was Microsoft’s decision to (finally) re-embrace PC as a gaming platform. If you buy their games on Xbox One, you’ll get them on PC as well (and vice versa). For big games, however, Microsoft’s been awfully Microsoft in recent times. Their store…

Steam Controller Update Lets You Customize Every Button Press

The Steam Controller continues to be a thing that is not super comfortable for a lot of people, but that hits just the right spot for customization junkies. Valve’s regularly updated it since launch, and now it’s gotten one of its most ambitious updates yet. Activators, currently available on the controller’s beta client, allow you…

Overwatch‘s Winston, As A Gorilla-Sized PC Case

Why build a massive PC case out of Overwatch’s bespectacled, science-tastic simian? Alternative question: why not? The build, which was on display at E3 this week, was given life by the tech warlocks at PCJunkieMods. They even made videos chronicling the process: It’s a damn impressive piece of work. What if there’s more to it,…

Counter-Strike Weapon Sounds Spark Controversy

Valve just dropped a big Counter-Strike update with some good stuff (snazzy new knife finishes, an extension to Operation Wildfire), some experiments (CSGO Prime accounts now require lieutenant rank 21 in addition to a phone number), and some questionable decisions. The big point of contention in the new Counter-Strike update is a single weapon sound.…

A Closer Look At Secrets Hiding In The God Of War Reveal

God of War 4 (aka God of W4r, God of Four, 4 God 4 Fourious, etc) is, I think it’s fair to say, not what people expected from a God of War follow-up. In it, Kratos has a precious new family member (his beard) and also a son. What does it all mean? Nothing’s concrete…

Resident Evil 7 Will Be More Like Classic Resident Evils Than The Demo

In the wake of Resident Evil 7‘s E3 reveal, Capcom dropped a teaser demo that’s… different. “Resident Evil? More like Resident P.T.-vil,” said somebody somewhere, probably. But according to Capcom, the final game will be more like classic Residents Evil (the correct plural; fight me) than people are expecting. As with anything that’s different, the…

One Video Game Publisher’s Passive-Aggressive Turf War With E3

E3 isn’t for everyone. It’s a massive video game convention built on glitz, glamour, and the bones of exhausted booth workers. It costs money to exhibit within those cramped halls, and people might not even notice. For years, Devolver has gotten around this by demoing games in a lot across the street. That, however, comes…

What’s Next For Overwatch

Overwatch has only been out for a few weeks now, but it’s already got 10 million players. Naturally, Blizzard has big plans for the future. In a recent forum post, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan laid out Blizzard’s plans for the next many months, noting that the team is “working on content patches throughout the…

First Agents of Mayhem Gameplay Footage Plays It Surprisingly Safe

Agents of Mayhem is the new game from Volition, developer of the unabashedly wacky, deceptively smart Saints Row series. If you were hoping for them to rein it in—to say, make a somber period piece set in 1930s Ireland—prepare to be disappointed. Volition writer Jason Blair debuted gameplay footage of Agents of Mayhem on Twitch’s…

Skyrim Remastered Will Work With Old Mods

Skyrim is getting remastered. It looks very pretty. The best part? It won’t drop a load of dragon doo on the game’s long-running PC modding scene On Twitter, Bethesda’s Pete Hines was asked whether old Skyrim mods will be compatible with Skyrim Special Edition. “Basically, yes,” he replied (as spotted by PC Gamer), as Thomas…

Rock Band 4 is getting an expansion called Rivals this fall. It’ll include “really big, new modes” that Harmonix isn’t saying anything about for some reason. They also announced a Fender Jaguar guitar controller that’ll be foldable. Convenient! Now it’ll gather dust in your closet even more efficiently. (I kid.)

Overwatch Update Nerfs McCree And Widowmaker

It’s been hinted at for a couple weeks, but now it’s finally here: Overwatch’s first big post-launch balance update. Blizzard has looked in the general direction of McCree and Widowmaker and uttered those fateful words: “It’s hiiiiiiiigh noon.” For now the patch is only out on PC. These changes will be included in a larger…

Detroit: Become Human Is Intense And Full Of Androids

Detroit: Become Human is the latest game from Heavy Rain developers Quantic Dream. It’s about a sci-fi Detroit where androids don’t have human rights, a description that also applies to real Detroit. The trailer demonstrates moments of tense choice involving an unhinged android and a little girl. He holds her hostage on the roof of…

Ark: Survival Evolved Update Will Let You Play (And Breed) As Dinosaurs

During E3’s PC Gaming Show, Studio Wildcard outlined the year ahead for their more-popular-than-Barney (but not nearly as fierce) dinosaur survival game, Ark: Survival Evolved. The craziest addition? A mode that lets you play as dinosaurs. Ark: Primal Survival is coming later this year. Here’s how it works: “ARK: Primal Survival is an upcoming Total…

Steep Is Ubisoft’s Open World Alpine Sports Game

Ubisoft just announced a new series, Steep. It’s an open world mountain sports game about skiing, snowboarding, wingsuiting, paragliding, and probably falling down a lot. You can explore a mountain with your friends and race down it while doing Stunts And Shit. The first-person stuff looks like Mirror’s Edge, but with skis and tremendous amounts…

Our First Look At The Star Trek VR Game

Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a game about working together with friends to fly a starship. During E3, it was demonstrated by Jeri Ryan, Levar Burton and Karl Urban—aka members of multiple real-life (which is to say, still fictional) Star Trek crews. The game, which we already heard about over the weekend, sees you and…