Nathan Grayson

PC Gamer has posted a list of things you should never do to your PC. The last two are especially important.

You really need to check out Sunless Sea The dread-drenched sewer ocean explorer has been on Steam Early Access for a little while, but now it’s done. It’s a mix between Sid Meier’s Pirates and your darkest lovecraftian nightmares—in other words, fantastic. Not convinced? Read how I went mad and died horribly.

Game Of Thrones: TV Actors vs. Game Characters

Game of Thrones finally has a good video game series, with solid cameos by some of the TV show’s most memorable ladies and gents, to boot. With episode two out, many of the major players—Jon Snow included—have made their polygonal debuts. But do they actually look… right? Let’s find out. Cersei Lannister Cersei’s pretty close,…

Dude Beats A Super Mario World Record Five Times In One Week

You thought that near-impossible Super Mario World glitch completion time was fast? It was just the beginning. While the guy who first demonstrated the glitch, SethBling, has whittled his world-record-setting completion time all the way down to 3:07.2, he’s been completely blown out of the water by another player who goes by the handle Dotsarecool.…

A Skyrim Kissing Mod That Doesn’t Totally Suck

We highlighted a mod that let you kiss everyone in Skyrim a while back, but it was kinda embarrassing. Your character latched onto people like some kind of alien everything-sucker and made this cartoon smooching noise. This one, however, is a bit more like the real deal. Kinda? The somewhat awkwardly titled ” Kissing—Immersive Lovers…

Track: Brussels | Album: New World Sundown | Artist: Hotel of the Laughing Tree Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Pac-Man Ghosts Are Smarter Than You Think

Pac-Man might not seem like much next to today’s hyper-realistic gun, dungeon, and gungeon-packed blockbusters, but the tiny puck that aspired to manhood inhabited a surprisingly complex world. His nemeses, the ghosts, are still pretty clever, even by modern video game standards. PBS’ ever-interesting Game/Show took an in-depth look at Pac-Man‘s ghosts and the way…

League Of Legends‘ Latest Character Skin Is Damn Cool, Damn Expensive

Meet DJ Sona. She doesn’t just look radically different from her old self/selves, she also sounds different. Using her mighty technicolor turntable, she can alter League of Legends‘ entire soundtrack. Oh, and she has multiple forms. The only drawback? A possible deal-breaker of a price tag. DJ Sona is a new League of Legends ultimate…

A Game About Taking Selfies As A Skeleton. That’s It.

You are a spooky, scary skeleton. You take selfies. That is the whole joke. It’s fucking fantastic. OK, there’s a bit more to it than that, but not much. Spooky Selfies is a free game where you walk—or, you know, skulk—around a graveyard and take selfies. It’s simple and dumb and, for roughly two minutes…

H1Z1 Players Have Created An Actual Fight Club

You know the first rule of fight club, don’t you? Well, these H1Z1 players broke it a bunch. But in the process, they herded other hapless players into a tooth-and-nail brawl to the death, and I’d like to think that having a fight club at all is more important than remembering to not talk about…

Only One LGBTQ Person Allowed Per Team In LoL Tournament [UPDATE]

Garena, operator of League of Legends in places like Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and the Philippines, is hosting an all-women eSports competition. Hurrah! There’s just one problem: they’ve put a limit on the number of LGBTQ people allowed per team because they might offer an “unfair advantage.” It’s a puzzling policy that could’ve, admittedly, been mangled…

Final Fantasy Kitchen Knives Deal Critical Damage To Fruit, Vegetables

Yes, I know. I want them too. But, much as I’d like to own some rad Final Fantasy cutlery, these were custom-made for one specific super-fan. We can ogle them from afar, though, and ogle we shall The Super-Fan Builds team enlisted the help of the ever-talented folks from Man At Arms to construct four…

If Only Lego Skyrim Were A Real Video Game

Batman has a Lego video game. So do Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Indiana Jones and a million other series. That’s nice. That’s cute. Whatever. I want Lego Skyrim, and I want it yesterday. The Guildmaster Studio put together a painstaking re-creation of Skyrim‘s opening scene using Lego blocks and stop-motion, and…

DOTA‘s Early Days Were Rough

DOTA 2 is one of the biggest games on Steam. It’s also the centerpiece of one of the biggest annual tournaments in all of eSports. And yet, once upon a time its most dedicated players resigned themselves to the idea that they’d probably never make a cent off it. Pro gaming behemoth Na`Vi put together…

Meet Twitch’s Newest Star: A Piano Player

For most of this week, I was pretty sick. There was an upside, though: it gave me the opportunity to stumble across one of Kyle Landry’s piano marathons on Twitch. That night, he became one of the most viewed anythings on Twitch, nearly beating Counter-Strike, Hearthstone, and Dying Light At first, it was just idle…

No One Can Figure Out What’s Up With This Bizarre Steam Account

Recently a bunch of people stumbled across a mysterious Steam account that’s part of nearly 200,000 groups. It’s level zero and has only one friend. It’s the strangest goddamn thing. It’s also a little creepy, if I’m being honest. The account was originally unearthed by a Reddit user who was looking for an account associated…

Skyrim Mod Lets You Marry Creepy Wooden People

I do not like the implications of Skyrim‘s craftable followers/NPCs mod. Not one bit. You can create life—give birth to fully formed adult wooden children—and then marry them if you so please. I can’t believe I even need to say this, but don’t marry your wooden children, people. OK, aside from the unholy matrimony, this…

Team Fortress 2 Fans Pay Tribute To Beloved Video Maker Who Passed Away

Kitty0706 was a popular YouTuber who made funny videos for nearly a decade. He spent two of those years battling leukemia. Recently he passed away, leaving a community heartbroken. But they haven’t forgotten the laughter he gave them. They never want to forget that. The news of Kitty’s passing surfaced on Reddit a couple days…

We Talk About The Witcher 3‘s Sex, Hair, And Open World

I got to play the first few hours of The Witcher 3, and so did Kotaku UK’s own ruthless god-commander, Keza MacDonald. Per UN mandate, this meant we were required to talk about it. Watch the video to hear our thoughts on open-world stuff, combat, the series’ progress in portraying sex, and more. For those…

There is a RoboCop mod for contemplative Steam puzzler The Talos Principle Because of course there is, right?