Nathan Grayson

Nic Cage Has A Bone To Pick With Destiny

Not the real Nic Cage, unfortunately, but a fairly convincing cartoon lookalike. He uses a fantastic review scoring system, too. While obviously intended to be funny, Mashed‘s video of famous/infamous actor Nic Cage ranting about Destiny pretty much tells it like it is. Getting friends together for raids can be kind of a pain, and…

Some Of The Best Counter-Strike Moments Of 2014

It’s been one hell of a year for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive This video by Peter Vallsten highlights ten of the best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro plays of the year. There is, needless to say, some crazy stuff in there. It’s a great watch even if you’re not into Counter-Strike, simply because these players pull of…

One Of The Most Powerful Weapons In Games Is… A Map

Swords, crossbows, and BFG9000s are cool and all, but they may as well be twigs and pebbles for all the good they do you when you’re lost. Enter the modern video game map—a perfect GPS, radar, and to-do list fusion born of mankind’s wildest organizational fever dreams. It’s one of the mightiest items in games.…

Dev On Steam Warns: ‘Do NOT Buy This Game As A Christmas Gift’

Frontiers looks really neat. The just-released-on-Early-Access fantasy RPG contains shades of The Elder Scrolls, especially Morrowind and Skyrim, but with an emphasis on exploration over combat. The game’s creator, however, doesn’t want you to give it to friends as a Christmas gift. He was adamant about that. Many developers have been upfront about the fact…

The Game That Goes Forever (By Eating Your Screen)

“You can’t win the game. It only exists to destroy your mind.” Made by Tom 7 as part of the Ludum Dare 31 game jam—whose theme was “entire game on one screen”—Entire Screen of One Game is a simple platformer (more of an interactive novelty, really) where you play as a little block… that turns…

Controversial Shooting Game Pulled From Steam Greenlight

Earlier today unsettlingly violent shooter Hatred appeared on Steam Greenlight. Not long after, it was yanked from the massive PC gaming service. And while Valve was—like Aus Target andGTA V—within their rights, I think they could’ve handled it better. Meanwhile Hatred continues to manufacture controversy, and that’s not OK. This is not the first time…

Grand Theft Auto V Shows Other Games How Graffiti Is Done

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, so graffiti is a big source of the color in its concrete jungle. And while it’s easy to think of graffiti as simple window dressing, these things often come from a very real place. AbsolutePab put together a video that fuses GTA V graffiti…

Boo, Valve Removed Bird Surfing From Counter-Strike

For a brief, magical period of time, you could surf on birds in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. As in, ascend into the skies on their tiny, feathered backs. Unfortunately, it broke the terrorist-fragging heck out of the game, so Valve had to take it out. But they added something fun to make up for it. When…

Far Cry 4‘s Knife Kills Defy The Laws Of Gravity

You can do a lot of things in Far Cry 4. Kick a rhino? Sure. Stampede over your foes on the back of a wild elephant? Totally. Fly like an eagle? Well, yes actually. Kinda. But there are limits. Here’s a video of people testing them to see just how far they can go. (Spoiler:…

Apple’s rejection of Papers, Please due to ‘pornographic’ content? Apparently that was a mistake. Creator Lucas Pope told me via email that nudity will be patched into the iPad version soon. He also explained what led to this all happening. Check out my updated story to read his full statement.

Years After Release, Here’s One Of Skyrim‘s Most Impressive Mods Yet

Enderal is a total conversion Skyrim mod that adds an entire new world to the game. Yes, its name sounds like something you’d take to cure a headache that is also the apocalypse, but this one’s dark, dank-with-atmosphere caverns and “mature” leanings make it the Skyrim mod to watch. Luke wrote about Enderal a while…

Apple Considered This Video Game Image ‘Pornographic’ [UPDATED]

Apple’s history of prudishness in the face of nudity is hardly anything new, but it really sucks to see overreaching policies de-fang provocative games like massively acclaimed indie hit Papers, Please. The emotionally exhausting immigration sim’s nudity made players uncomfortable. I thought it was important. (Warning: this post contains images that might be NSFW.) Creator…

Hooray, That Awesome Cyberpunk Game Is Back From The Dead

Once upon a time (read: a couple years ago), a crazy pretty cyberpunk game called 5734L3R—aka Stealer—took our un-cybernetically enhanced simian world by storm. But then, just as quickly as it appeared, it got canceled. The end? Hardly. It lives again, and this time it needs your help. A glitched out cyberscape painted in warm…

The End Of The World, GTA V Style

It’s the year 2014. Grand Theft Auto V is now on next-gen consoles. So what’s that mean for last-gen? Why, the rapture, of course, if this fan video is to be believed. The folks at 8-Bit Bastard, in conjunction with Sonny Evans, put together this video about the last desperate souls roaming the abandoned wasteland…

A Guide To The Witcher‘s Story, For Those Who Know Squat

Despite a recent delay, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt continues to be the new-gen game to watch, but it’s the third entry in a massive fantasy series with lore lining every crag of its handsomely (and lustily) scarred face. Where to begin? This video will help. And no, it’s not about witches. ShoddyCast, they of…

It’s Basically Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, But With Birds

Yes, Aviary Attorney stars birds. You’ll remember that the feather-flaunting ex-dinosaurs have also taken our dating simulators. What’s next? Far Cry? Wait… oh nooooooooo Despite the rather comical premise, this one looks to play it pretty straight and let the absurdity of bird lawyers paired with some gorgeous period art do the talking. Or squawking.…

Despite Player Outcry, Elite: Dangerous Will Remain Always Online

Elite: Dangerous is shaping up to be the best open galaxy/virtual reality space trucking game this side of the Milky Way (which it includes all of), but controversy recently blotted out its starry sky when Frontier yanked a long-promised offline mode right before release. Worse, not everybody was offered refunds. In a recent interview with…

Dragon Age‘s New Update Took Away My Damn Scars

Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s second big patch went out today, largely focused on the RPG behemoth’s PC version. I took it for a spin and discovered a few tiny tweaks paired with a big change for the worse: my character’s scars are gone—her face pristine as fresh plastic—and I’m not alone in that. The patch, released…

The Counter-Strike Player Who’s Giving Up A $7,500 Gun Collection

The Dahn is a collector. He’s managed to painstakingly amass a glittering arsenal of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in-game items that total out to a real money value of between $7,500 and $9,000. And now he’s getting rid of them all. Dahn’s collection—one of the most complete in the game, a veritable museum of glittering/camo-colored/fire-decaled rarities…

Half-Life 2 Is Now A Strategy Game. Thanks, Modders

It might seem like an odd fit at first, but Valve’s legendary Half-Life series—with all its tug-of-warring alien factions infesting Earth—seems like it was practically made to play host to a strategy game—albeit in the same way the human body was “made” to be host to a headcrab. But hey, this one is free. Lambda…