Nathan Grayson

G2A has acknowledged Gearbox’s demands that they clean up their act. They just told me that they’re in talks with Gearbox now and will have more to say after the weekend. Check out my updated story for more.

A Look At The Sketchy Sites That Sell Hacked PSN Accounts

In the world of games, shady key resale sites like G2A are nothing new. On PlayStation 4, however, things are a little different. Many sites sell entire PSN accounts with the promise of delivering particular games on the cheap. Would you be shocked—shocked, I say—to hear that some of them aren’t exactly legit? Waypoint’s Patrick…

Gearbox Threatens To Kill Partnership With Shady Key Dealer Unless They Change Their Ways [Update]

Yesterday, Gearbox got hit by a tidal wave of backlash for partnering with controversial key resale site G2A. It got so bad that popular YouTuber John “TotalBiscuit” Bain publicly threatened to stop covering Gearbox’s games unless something changed. To their credit, Gearbox listened, and they now have a list of demands for G2A. The demands,…

Gearbox Hit With Backlash For Partnering With Controversial Game Key Seller G2A

Recently, Gearbox announced that they’re partnering with game key re-seller G2A for a collector’s edition of Bulletstorm. Problem: over the years, G2A has been subject to widespread criticism for lax security, enabling fraud, and making money at developers’ expense. Predictably, Gearbox has taken serious flack for the partnership. G2A’s reputation has fallen so far down…

Pro Counter-Strike Team Loses Round Due To Notorious Grenade Glitch

In Counter-Strike, nobody’s entirely certain how molotov cocktails are supposed to work when smoke grenades enter the picture. Sometimes smokes put out molotovs when they land on top of them, but not always. Other times, smokes magically douse flames through walls. Recently, it even happened in a pro game. During a StarSeries Season 3 match…

Blizzard just released a new Overwatch comic. In it, the Overwatch team grapples with how to handle a robot uprising in London, despite the fact that they’re technically not allowed to intervene. The comic likely exists as setup for next week’s event, but it’s also just a slick comic. Check it out

Show Us Your Ugliest Video Game Outfits

You did it. You finally got that sweet armor set you’ve been assembling for days. You look like a million bucks. Time to parade around town being shiny AF and… oh no. You found a new chest plate with slightly better stats. Have fun being a damn circus clown for the next 20 hours. I’ve…

Court Orders Notorious Cheat Maker To Pay Blizzard $8.5 Million

Last month, Blizzard demanded $8.5 million from cheat maker Bossland as part of an ongoing legal battle. Now, in absence of any defense from the Honor Buddy (WoW) and Watchover Tyrant (Overwatch) creator, the court has sided with Blizzard. The court has granted Blizzard statutory copyright damages totaling out to $8,563,600. Bossland also owes Blizzard…

Sacred Fire is an RPG where combat is dictated by emotions and psychology, rather than weapons, attacks, or damage types. Anger might make you strong, but it’ll leave you open to a punishing riposte. Fear can turn enemies into a shell of their normal selves, but it can leave you quaking too. The game is…

Sometimes It’s Best To Quit A Game While You’re Still Having Fun

Typically when I sit down with a video game, I play until I’m either a) bored, or b) teeth-grindingly furious. Lately, though, I’ve been trying something different: quitting when I’m feeling goddamn fantastic. I recommend it! Here’s an example: the other day I was playing Overwatch (shocking, I know), and I was just on. I…

Valve Says They’re Making Big Changes To Steam To Stomp Out ‘Fake Games’

Recently, Valve had two popular YouTubers, John “TotalBiscuit” Bain and Jim “Jim Sterling” Sterling, visit their offices. Over the course of a day-long series of meetings, the company laid out a roadmap for the future of Steam. Both Bain and Sterling posted lengthy videos about their descent into GabeN’s mystery dungeon. You can watch those…

Ark: Survival Evolved just got a big update on PC. It includes underwater bases, aquatic creature breeding, teleporter pads, and a total inventory overhaul. It also adds four new creatures, one of which is an ancient horse. That is to say, an ancestor to modern horses—not a very old horse. That would just be sad.

Spontaneous Battlegrounds Friendship Ends In Tragedy, Revenge

In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ default mode, it’s every person for themselves. That does not mean, however, that people don’t form alliances. It just means that they tend to end poorly, sometimes with tears. CamCANTRUN highlighted a moment in which he became pals with another player while they were holding down a house they’d converted into a…

Reigns, a game about ruling a kingdom through an interface that’s basically Tinder, just got a big update on PC and mobile. It adds more than 100 new cards, which include new objectives, characters, and of course, ways to die. Reigns was one of my favorite games of last year, so if you haven’t played…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Players Win Match By Staying In Their Own Flipped Car

In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, you’re up against 100 people, and a couple well-placed bullets will take you out of commission for good. Chaos reigns. Sometimes, though, chaos can work in your favor. Competing in a duos match, Sir Lance and a friend found a car. They were planning to use said car for car things, like…

Blizzard Shuts Down Mod Aiming To Make World Of Warcraft‘s Story Better

Questing in World of Warcraft can be a slog. This is especially true during the game’s early levels, before you reach recent expansion content. Warcraft Tales is a mod that would’ve improved that with voice acting and more elaborate stories. I say “would’ve,” because well… Blizzard recently shut down the still-early project, as it would’ve…

Mafia III‘s First Story DLC Is Fine, But Too Short

Mafia III’s new DLC is like a good car chase: over in a flash, but a fun ride while it lasts. The story-based DLC, called “Faster, Baby!”, is also mostly about car chases, as well as weed and blatant innuendos. It takes place in a new rural location called Sinclair Parish, where notoriously racist sheriff…

Fans Won’t Stop Playing One Of Steam’s Most Popular Games, Even Though They Claim To Hate It

H1Z1: King of the Kill is one of the most popular games on Steam, despite the fact that thousands of fans claim to hate it. Now that a similar game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has appeared, many say they’re going to jump ship for good—and this time, they really, really mean it. Maybe. King of the Kill…

All Walls Must Fall is a tactics game that owes as much to Rez as it does to XCOM. It takes place in a future Berlin where the Cold War never ended. Time-traveling agents loop the same night over and over via tactical battles that occur to the beat of music. Looks wild! It’s on…

Pro Overwatch Team Known For Wild Plays Finally Meet Their Match

Over the course of the big APEX Overwatch tournament, Meta Athena went from unassuming underdog to dark horse favorite with plays that seemed to spring forth from some mad scientist’s lab, freshly glistening with incubation tube goop. Their winning streak, however, has finally come to an end. In the most recent semifinal match of the…