Nathan Grayson

Spider-Man Continues To Look Like A Lot Of Fun

Everything in the world might be bad, but if nothing else, the last couple years have made it official: Spider-Man is good again. Today during Sony’s E3 press conference, Insomniac showed off a demo of its upcoming Spider-Man game. It centered on a conflict between Spidey and Electro in a prison. After downing the helicopter…

Sable is an open-world desert exploration game that just got announced at E3’s PC gaming conference. It’s a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of an alien planet rich with its own history. The art style, inspired by French and Belgian comics, is something else. It’ll be out on PC and consoles next year.

Valve just announced Steam China. The goal is to introduce more games to China, though how that will work isn’t clear yet. In recent times, Steam has added some popular Chinese games. However, Chinese players have become Steam users’ go-to object of borderline-xenophobic rage thanks to cheating issues

Ubisoft just announced Trials Rising The latest installment in the over-the-top dirt bike racing series looks zanier than ever, though it’ll have a dedicated tutorial system put together with assistance from the series’ community. It’ll be out in February 2019 on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and the Switch.

Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls VI

During today’s press conference, Bethesda briefly teased The Elder Scrolls VI It was just a brief teaser that showed a large landscape, and Todd Howard implied it’ll be coming after single-player sci-fi RPG Starfield, which he announced seconds beforehand. If I had to guess, Elder Scrolls VI will almost certainly be on the next generation…

The Elder Scrolls Blades Announced For Phones

Today Bethesda announced a new Elder Scrolls game called Elder Scrolls Blades Todd Howard likened it philosophically to Fallout Shelter as a “uniquely mobile experience.” It’s first-person ala traditional Elder Scrolls games, but with touch-screen based swiping combat. It features both handcrafted and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s not just a dungeon-crawler, though. There are outdoor…

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Is A Co-Op Game Coming Next Year

Today during Bethesda’s E3 press conference, Machine Games announced a new Wolfenstein game. The next Wolfenstein is called Youngblood. It’s set in the 1980s in Paris and stars series hero BJ Blazkowicz and love interest Anya’s twin daughters (!!!). It’s “a co-op experience” that you can also play solo. In the trailer, BJ monologues about…

Our First Proper Look At Rage 2

As part of today’s E3 press event, Bethesda revealed footage of Avalanche-developed post-apocalpytic shooter sequel, Rage 2 The demo was preceded by a full-blown goddamn Andrew W.K. concert, which absolutely rocked and was completely wasted on an audience full of already-tired E3 attendees. I mean, look at this: Amazing! The actual game was cool, too.…

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets A New Teaser Trailer

As part of today’s Microsoft E3 press conference, Witcher developer CD Projekt Red showed off a new teaser of its next monster-sized, but also monster-free RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 The trailer began with a male character saying that his city is the worst in America, referencing a “sky high rate of violence” and “more people living…

Microsoft just announced a new Battletoads It’ll have 2.5D graphics and couch co-op. They didn’t show or say much else. It’ll be out next year.

Forza Horizon 4 Is Set In Britain

Today during its E3 press conference, Microsoft debuted Forza Horizon 4 The new racer in Forza’s arcadier sister series is set in Britain. It features “dynamic seasons” in a “shared open world.” Apparently this “changes everything.” Here’s a trailer: During the E3 demo, we got to see multiple seasons—summer, winter, and everything in between—each of…

Today during Microsoft’s E3 news conference, it showed off a new trailer for Ori And The Will Of The Wisps, the sequel to Ori And The Blind Forest. It’s full of beautiful psychedelic imagery and some gnarly monsters. The game will be out in 2019.

Everything We Know About BioWare’s Anthem

To close out EA’s E3-adjacent EA Play news conference, BioWare walked the audience through a lengthy deep dive into Anthem, its Destiny-esque multiplayer shooter. To begin, BioWare’s Casey Hudson, Mark Darrah, and Cathleen Rootsaert explained that the goal with Anthem is to avoid “diluting” the story by keeping it separate from action-heavy combat. You’ll go…

Yarn Game Unravel Gets A Co-op Sequel, Out Today

Yarny is back, and this time, it’s personal Today, as part of its E3-adjacent EA Play conference, EA announced a sequel to side-scrolling yarn-’em-up Unravel. It once again stars Yarny, an actual doll knitted by creative director and perpetual sincerity engine Martin Sahlin. This time, though, he’s got a partner, a blue yarn doll. The…

Conan Exiles Struggles With Unmoderated Griefing, Racism

Conan Exiles officially launched last month, and was playable in early access for more than a year before that. Unfortunately, the game still contains no means of reporting other players for griefing, abuse, or racism. It’s a common question asked on Conan Exiles’ forums, Steam discussion page, and subreddit: “how do you report a player…

Steam’s Irresponsible Hands-Off Policy Is Proof That Valve Still Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson

Yesterday, Valve announced a sweeping new policy for Steam: From now on, the platform will allow “everything” except for games Valve decides are “illegal, or straight up trolling.” In light of controversies like the recently removed school shooter game Active Shooter, the announcement came as a surprise to those who were expecting Valve to offer…

Survival Games Are At Their Best When You’re Alone

I lost my raft. Not the best way to start a game called Raft, but I soldiered on, desperately doggy-paddling through an endless sea in hopes of finding dry land before I starved to death or got eaten by a shark. As the in-game sun set, I accepted my fate: I would die cold, afraid,…

Valve Says It Will Now Allow ‘Everything’ On Steam, Unless It’s Illegal Or ‘Straight Up Trolling’

In recent times, Valve has struggled to draw a line in terms of what’s allowed on Steam. Controversy has raged over the removal of games with explicit sexual content as well as objectionable themes like the glorification of school shooters. In response to all of this, Valve has decided to open the floodgates even wider.…

Overwatch Is Getting A Looking For Group Tool

For pretty much the entirety of Overwatch’s two-year existence, players have been clamoring for a role queue or some other way to simplify character selection. Now Blizzard’s taking a stab at doing something about it. Game director Jeff Kaplan, Our Hallowed Gamefather, announced a series of new social features that’ll be released as part of…

Deaf Overwatch League Fan Comes Up With Custom Signs For Heroes

In Overwatch, sound is key. Aural cues tell you when enemies and allies are using their ultimates, and (good) teams regularly coordinate over voice chat. For deaf fans, those are some pretty big hurdles to get over whether they’re playing or watching. 14-year-old Danik Soudakoff is a deaf Overwatch League fan who was recently spotlighted…