Nathan Grayson

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Players Discover An Infinite Damage Combo

Divinity: Original Sin 2 might look like a sparkly new take on creaky old PC role-playing games, but it’s built atop a foundation of intricately interlocking systems that allow for even more possibility than the classics. Here’s a case in point. Players have discovered that a particular characteristic, undead, and a handful of selectively-applied abilities…

Heat Signature Is A Thrilling Game About Spaceship Heists

Heat Signature’s clock is ticking. Ten seconds until I get detected in an enemy spaceship, and I haven’t even assassinated my target. Finally, I find them. It’s over in one cruel slice of my long blade, but the timer is still counting down, and the ship is a labyrinthine hulk. I run. I see a…

XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen, As Told By Steam Reviews

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is a turn-based Shakespearean tragedy generator, and also there are aliens. Steam users have been sharing their tales of devastation, woe, and, every once in a while, victory. I was expecting to enjoy the expansion, but I had no idea just how much Shadow of Mordor-like personality it would…

A Possible Explanation For Half-Life PS2’s Mysterious Moving File Cabinet

Weird fact: there was a PlayStation 2 version of the original Half-Life. Weirder fact: it contained a file cabinet that would move to face you if you approached it. People have posted videos of this file cabinet for years. The exact cause of it remains unknown, but there have been some compelling lines of speculation,…

Minecraft’s “Better Together” update launches today It allows players on Xbox, mobile, VR, and Windows 10 to play together. It also adds a host of new features like new host options, game start rules, and parrots (!!!). The Nintendo Switch version, unfortunately, isn’t ready yet, but Mojang says it’ll be out this winter.

Play As A Giant Robot Who Wants To Save Humanity, Accidentally Ruin Planets

It’s not easy being a giant robot with a body better suited to destroying planets than saving them, especially not when people react to your noble, monster-vaporizing efforts with bullets and lasers of their own. Jettomero, though, doesn’t really mind. He just wants to make sure everybody’s alright. Jettomero: Hero of the Universe is a…

Cars With Video Game Names, Ranked

A lot of cars share names with popular video games. Obviously, we had to rank them. 23. Ultima Evolution 22. Dodge Journey 21. Plymouth Horizon 20. Dodge Avenger 19. Pontiac Tempest 18. Pontiac Aztek 17. Land Rover Defender 16. Pontiac Phoenix 15. Dodge Durango 14. Mahindra Scorpio 13. Dodge Monaco 12. Nissan Rogue 11. Toyota…

Valve’s Solution To Steam Review Bombing Is To Add Charts

For years, Steam has struggled with the issue of review bombing, where large numbers of users leave negative reviews on games’ pages, often because of controversial subject matter or news that doesn’t actually impact the game’s quality. Today, Valve finally addressed the problem. Sorta. In a new blog post, Valve announced that it’s decided to…

I don’t think anyone’s ever looked at Counter-Strike and said, “Man, I really wish that was a fighting game,” but Chris Le’s video might change some minds. It re-imagines CSGO as a hyper over-the-top fighter with juggle combos, supers, and even an announcer. No, it’s not and probably never will be playable, but it’s fun…

A Bold New Overwatch Strategy: Being Nice

Become a better Overwatch player with this one neat trick: being nice. You’ll get results almost instantly! “Think about all the times somebody’s said something negative to you in the game and imagine now if somebody had said something positive to you instead,” Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan said in a recent video. Some (myself included)…

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Let Me Turn A Giant Boss Into A Chicken

Divinity: Original Sin 2 pro tip: when all else fails, try turning your enemies into chickens. Seriously. Warning: slight Divinity: Original Sin 2 spoilers ahead. Things were actually going pretty well until a giant worm from The Void popped out of the earth. I wouldn’t say I was fighting a flawless battle against Bishop Alexander,…

Popular Fallout 4 Mod Deletes Creation Club Ad

Despite grand promises at E3 this year, Bethesda’s conceptual sequel to paid mods, the Creation Club, recently debuted in Fallout 4 with milquetoast fare like a ten-years-too-late horse armor gag. Skeptical fans weren’t thrilled. Now modders have taken matters into their own hands. Since an update at the end of August, the upper right-hand quadrant…

15 Hours In, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Is Brilliant

I’m fighting a losing battle. Again. One of the last steps between me and freedom from a magical prison island, a weird flesh-obsessed magister named Kniles the Flenser, has me woefully outgunned. Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s combat ruthlessly punishes the unprepared, and I basically went into the game blind. After 15 hours of play, I…

Blizzard Says Fighting Toxic Behavior Is Slowing Down Overwatch Updates

Overwatch has serious issues with toxic players, and in recent months, those problems only seem to have gotten worse. Blizzard swears up and down that it’s working to improve player behavior, but according to game director Jeff Kaplan, those efforts are taking a direct toll on other aspects of the game’s development. In a new…

Shirtless Mario Leads To Widespread Pandemonium

"everyone was so horny to play as naked link they didn't consider the consequences. now we have naked mario. i hope you're happy."

Pro Overwatch Team Starts Cooking Show

Team EnvyUs is a major esports organization whose Overwatch team is like a circling bird of prey. Other teams might be flying high, but Envy’s shadow always looms heavy. So anyway, they’ve started a cooking show. The first episode of EnvyUs’ YouTube show “Envy Eats” stars Overwatch aim god Timo “Taimou” Kettunen and follows him…

It Isn’t Easy Being An Overwatch Fan In Africa

When Shuaib Sookia, an Overwatch fan who lives in the African country of Mauritius, posted to both the game’s subreddit and official forums about how much of a pain it can be to play Blizzard’s team-based shooter without servers located anywhere on the continent of Africa, he wasn’t expecting much in the way of response.…

Military Shooter Expansion Shows You The Toll Your Battles Take

Playing as a young man, I run up verdant hills to a church. I’m told of this person’s disdain for local conflict-heavy politics and his love for his community. Then I step on a mine and die. No respawn. That was just the game’s opening. Laws of War, a mini-expansion for military sim Arma III…

New Battlegrounds Patch Makes It Harder To Earn In-Game Currency By Doing Nothing

If you ask many PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players (or PlayersUnknown, if you want to use the grammatically correct plural form) what their biggest problem with the game is, they’ll probably say AFK farmers. Now, after weeks of complaints, PUBG’s developers have made it much harder to sit around and earn currency. As part of the game’s…

Counter-Strike Team Blows $70,000 Championship Match After Being Penalized For Showing Up Late

Prominent esports organization Immortals suffered a major misfire over the weekend when three members of its Counter-Strike team showed up late to a $70,000 Dreamhack Montreal finals match, forcing them to forfeit the first map in a best of three set, per the tournament’s rules This put Immortals at a serious disadvantage against opposing team…