Nathan Grayson

A Dark Theory About The Origin Of Minecraft‘s World

Have you ever stared up into Minecraft‘s night sky? I mean, like, really taken a good, hard look into the frigid cosmos? You might notice that something’s amiss. It’s kinda empty, and the moon is always opposite the sun, and… this world doesn’t work like ours, does it? Here’s a shockingly bleak theory on why…

Wanna know how long it’d take to beat every game in your Steam library? There’s a calculator app for that. Just go there and either sign in or, if your profile is public, enter your Steam ID. I’m looking at 2842 continuous hours, or 118 days, 10 hours, and 12 minutes. How about you? The…

Sony Offers Refunds To Fans Angry About Zombie Game Microtransactions

SOE’s DayZ-ish zombie MMO, H1Z1, just launched on Steam Early Access. That means it is, on no uncertain terms, unfinished. However, even fans with that knowledge were surprised to discover a microtransaction airdrop that affects gameplay. They felt like they’d been misled. The real money microtransaction, an airdrop players can buy and call in, has…

Five Years Later, Fallout: New Vegas Is Still Getting Great Mods

Modding communities are odd. Some dogpile on a game, try to build Rome in a day, get discouraged/bored, and leave. Others stick with the same game for years, feeding it a steady diet of tweaks and changes, eventually transforming it into something entirely different. Fallout: New Vegas is the latter. Here’s SkyttsTV running through ten…

Two New Steam Features You Might Not Have Noticed

Steam is changing all the time—even if it feels like it’s improving in Valve Time, not regular people time. That means key features can, occasionally, slip through the cracks. Here are a couple recent additions with big potential. First up, the feature with the biggest long-term implications. There is now a “follow” button in every…

A StarCraft Tournament That’s Only For Robots

We are training robots to excel at outer space future war. In a video game. This is sure to end well for humanity. The Student StarCraft AI Tournament pits 42 bots—all programmed to excel at stars and the crafting thereof (also war)—in a total of 861 games against each other. Each match is 1v1, and…

This Is Not How I Remember Perfect Dark On N64

Remember Perfect Dark? The N64 spy shooter that was a lot like Goldeneye because it was basically a sequel to Goldeneye? Someone’s gone and made it into a horrifying glitched out hellscape. Vinesauce, renowned master of glitchy, unpredictable “corruptions,” put his personal spin on Perfect Dark. The result is equal parts deranged and hilarious. People’s…

Hearthstone Master Loses To Low Rank Player With Starter Deck

OK, time for a game of fill in the blank: “Pride goes before a ____.” Jason “Amaz” Chan is not a Hearthstone player to be trifled with. In addition to being one of the online collectible card game’s most popular streamers, he’s won multiple tournaments including last year’s Numericable Millennium Cup and IEM Shenzhen. He…

Pro StarCraft Player Suspended After Longest Match Ever

There are many ways to win a StarCraft II match. Countless tactics, schemes, and ways of naming each of your beautiful baby zerglings that you love dearly I mean what no that’s crazy nobody does that. This, however, is probably not a strategy you should ever employ. No, that time stamp is not wrong. The…

Fans Are Bringing Counter-Strike‘s Most Popular Maps To Halo

Halo and Counter-Strike both have guns, but otherwise they couldn’t be more different. And while I really hope someone focuses on upping Halo‘s chicken count soon, for now a couple classic Counter-Strike haunts will have to do. MyHouseRules is recreating fy_iceworld and perhaps one of the best known video game maps of all time, de_dust,…

Great Video Game Sex Scene Involves People With Guns For Heads

There is absolutely NO WAY this game is intended to say something about the state of modern video games. None whatsoever. But even if you don’t care about that, its lone sex scene is one of the best I’ve ever seen in video games. Warning: maybe NSFW, but also maybe not depending on how your…

Dude’s Entire YouTube Channel Is Just Far Cry 4 Wingsuit Stunts

I wouldn’t be surprised to see this guy post a video of himself soaring through the eye of a needle next. I used to dream of flying, you know. But now here’s Danny Rusk, who flies like he was born in Far Cry 4‘s wingsuit rather than the lame, earthbound birthday suits the rest of…

Tricks That Will Help You Become A Better Counter-Strike Player

Playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive like a mere mortal is all well and good, but normal shooter skills will only get you so far in this one. Playing like a diabolical mastermind, though? That takes finesse. Finesse and incredibly specific knowledge. Jackfrags has kicked off a series exploring Counter-Strike‘s lesser-known ins and outs, and these are…

What happens when Alien: Isolation and Team Fortress 2 mix? You get this nicely done short film by MaGGoT4th, in which an Alien turns TF2‘s colorful cast into quivering mush puddles. Make sure to stick around for the twist ending.

PC Modders Turn Metal Gear Solid Into A First-Person Shooter

The Metal Gear Solid games have allowed players to look around in first-person for quite a while, but to play the whole game like an FPS—with convincing movement and decent controls? This looks like a job for modders. The Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes first-person PC mod—which you can see in action courtesy of…

No, People Are Probably Not Gonna Buy A Rare NES Game For $100,000

There is currently a factory sealed copy of extremely rare (there are only two copies in near-mint condition on Earth) NES game Stadium Events listed on eBay. It’s reached a bidding high of $100,000, and it still has six days to go. Unfortunately, there is likely foul play involved. As Wired outlines, auctions like these…

Five Nights At Wario’s Makes Nintendo Terrifying

Five Nights At Wario’s is a Five Nights At Freddy’s parody game chock full of Nintendo characters like Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach. Also their eyes are dead and they’re bleeding pure darkness from infinite void orifices. And then there’s Waluigi. Dear god, Waluigi. Five Nights At Wario’s is available for free over on Game…

Life-Size Pac-Man Maze Unhinges Jaw, Consumes LA

It could be said that Los Angeles is an urban maze, a sprawl of overlapping, interlocking grids and dumpster-strewn dead ends. Yesterday, you could have also said it was a Pac-Man maze. Because it was. The maze was put together to be used in—of all things—a Bud Light beer commercial that will apparently air during…

Smash Bros. Amiibo Tournament Is One Hell Of An Emotional Rollercoaster

“I knew I should’ve trained him better,” a friend said somberly of her Luigi Amiibo after he got steamrolled by another friend’s Captain Falcon. “I knew he wasn’t ready.” Amiibos, tiny plastic statues of popular Nintendo characters that can interact with a handful of Nintendo games, are all the rage right now. They’re nice-looking, collectible,…

DayZ Short Film Is, Surprise, Not A Feel-Good Movie

DayZ is a game about the zombie apocalypse, survival, and permadeath. It is also—thanks to players—about trolling, griefing, and the truest, douchiest darkness of the human heart. Bitter enemies become the best of friends… until it stops being convenient. I love the drama and cinematography on display here. Eternum Pictures really captured the look and…