Nathan Grayson

Our Favorite Things About Overwatch‘s Big Winter Update

This week on our semi-regular Overwatch show, Cecilia, Heather, and I discuss the big Winter Wonderland update. Come for a surprisingly heated debate about Roadhog’s holiday skin, and stay for in-depth talk and tips for Mei’s Snowball Offensive and nu-Symmetra. Are you digging the new update? What do you think of Mei’s Snowball Offensive? How…

Overwatch Comic Not Released In Russia Because Of Gay Propaganda Law

Today’s new Overwatch comic was delightful and, among other things, revealed that Tracer is queer. She shares a nice smooch with her partner, Emily, and that’s pretty much the end of it. It is, however, a bit much for Russia. As pointed out by Twitter users like Malkythera, the comic is unreadable on the Russian…

Sorry, Steam Award Nominations Don’t Involve Half-Life 3

Last month, Valve revealed its first-ever Steam Awards. They came with a twist: a final category to be plucked from user submissions, many of which ended up being tongue-in-cheek. Now Valve’s revealed their selections, and sorry, but no: none of them acknowledge fans’ many write-ins of “the game most in need of a sequel.” Despite…

New Overwatch Comic Is Full Of Holiday Cheer

Blizzard just released a new Overwatch comic, and it’s a refreshingly joyous look into the lives of the game’s heroes. Especially Tracer. Like the game’s recent Winter Wonderland update, the comic centers around the holidays. In it, Tracer rushes to find a gift for A Special Somebody, only run out of time (and the magical…

EVE Player Acts Like A Jerk About Secret Santa, Gets Sent 6,000 Pieces Of In-Game Coal

In games as in life, it’s not a great idea to complain about Secret Santa presents. In the wake of a recent fan-organized EVE Online Secret Santa event, one player wasn’t too pleased with the gift he received—a skin for a Purifier ship—and decided to voice his frustrations publicly. “I don’t even use fucking Purifiers,”…

Overwatch Players Band Together To Send Cookies To Blizzard

You might not always agree with the choices the developers of your favorite games make, but they work hard, dammit. As a show of gratitude, a bunch of Overwatch players have pooled their resources to buy cookies for the development team. Christopher Culley started the Blizzard Cookies Project on Indiegogo yesterday with the goal of…

Denuvo Says Doom Dropped Their Anti-Piracy Tech Because It Got The Job Done

Denuvo, once the iron-clad terror of pirates everywhere, was recently removed from two high-profile games, Doom and Inside. Why? After more than a week of speculation, Denuvo’s decided to clarify things. “The simple reason why Denuvo Anti Tamper was removed from Doom was because it had accomplished its purpose by keeping the game safe from…

Farewell, Weird-Faced Assassin’s Creed NPC

Last month, this dear precious boy appeared in Assassin’s Creed Ezio Collection and immediately became an Internet sensation. It is with great and terrible regret that I now inform you of his passing. A patch (spotted by Eurogamer) did the deed. Have a look: The NPC could show up in Sequence 1, Memory 1 of…

The State Of PC Gaming In 2016

2016 was yet another year that showed PC gaming is, in many ways, on the forefront of gaming. So many of gaming’s most popular trends—the proliferation of Early Access on consoles (for better or worse), survival game elements in everything, multiplatform mods, esports, and virtual reality—all started on PC. Even as it inspired other platforms,…

Blizzard Says Their ‘Cool Meter’ Was Off On Mei’s Holiday Overwatch Skin

Overwatch skins might appear to be simple cosmetic alterations, but for some, they’re a matter of life and death. Or at least life and death by embarrassment. Fashion faux pas simply will not stand in this endless war of waifus and husbandos. Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland event and brawl center around Mei, who received a new…

Modder Gives Counter-Strike‘s Most Popular Maps A Holiday Makeover

Counter-Strike might have Christmas chickens, but it’s severely lacking in Christmas maps. Enter a selection of phenomenal modded maps by BadtRIP Thanks to their handiwork, you can now play festive versions of Train, Inferno, Mirage, Overpass, Cobblestone, and Dust2. Changes are wholly cosmetic and include snow, lights, sleighs, and even Christmas trees. The weather outside…

Overwatch‘s Holiday Brawl Is A Bit Of A Letdown

Overwatch’s seasonal brawls, the sporty Lucio Ball and PVE-centric Junkenstein’s Revenge, have been almost universally beloved, taking the game in directions nobody saw coming. Comparatively, the latest one, Mei’s Snowball Offensive, is kind of a buzzkill. A snowball fight was, of course, a natural pick for this season’s brawl, but Mei’s is not all that…

Four Years Later, The Wii U Hasn’t Gotten Any Big Price Drops

The Wii U is in an odd spot. It never found the audience Nintendo was hoping for, and after two or three years it was already being phased out in favor of the Switch. Despite that, it’s yet to receive a significant price drop, even as the more-successful PlayStation 4 and Xbox One take detours…

In the Overwatch holiday update, Roadhog’s gun is a present from Junkrat. That strange fluttering sensation you’re feeling in your chest right now? That’s your heart being warmed. Thanks for spotting this, gaara

Overwatch‘s Holiday Event Has Begun

The holidays are almost here, and you know what that means: a new Overwatch seasonal event (and also presents and family or whatever). Overwatch’s seasonal event, titled Winter Wonderland, just began. It includes Christmas skins, emotes, and highlight intros for pretty much every character in the game. Here are some of the skins: Torbjorn as…

MMA Champion Uses Video Games And Cosplay To Deal With The Stress Of Fighting

Angela “Overkill” Hill is the strawweight champion of the world’s most prominent women’s MMA organization, Invicta. She’s on the verge of a second crack at UFC glory. Last time around, though, she found herself too bogged down by the pressures of fight life to compete as well as she could. These days, she’s using cosplay…

UFC 206 Didn’t Need Bogus Storylines To Be Great

UFC 206 took place over the weekend, and despite losing multiple fights (including its original main event) to injuries, it ended up being one of the best fight cards of the year. It was uncomplicated, brutal fun—a breath of fresh air after months of beefs, organizational drama, and various other flavors of bullshit. On paper,…

DOTA 2 Update Forces Players To Re-Learn A Game That Took Hundreds Of Hours To Understand [UPDATE]

DOTA 2‘s biggest update yet is here, and players are coming to terms with the fact that a game they spent hundreds of hours barely wrapping their heads around just got turned upside-down. Ever since Valve took the reigns on DOTA with DOTA 2, the game’s received all sorts of updates over the years. While…

OneShot Is A Game Where The Main Character Knows Who You Are

OneShot first freaked me out when it said my name. My real name. I don’t know how it got my name. I didn’t give it my name. It’s not even part of my Steam profile. In OneShot, an adventure game that just came out on Steam, you play as a cat creature named Niko. However,…

Blizzard Saves Overwatch Player From Loot Box Disaster

Imagine that, after buying hundreds of loot boxes, you finally had all the Overwatch skins you spent so long coveting from afar. Then imagine that they started slowly disappearing. It’s like something out of a very dorky (yet EXTREMELY terrifying) Twilight Zone episode, but that’s exactly what happened to Kaleptik. Over the course of a…