Divinity: Original Sin is a really cool game, but it’s not all that interested in holding your hand. It can be…
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Nathan Grayson
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Kotaku senior reporter. Beats: Twitch, streaming, PC gaming. Writing a book about streamers tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.
Building a gaming PC can be time-consuming and stressful. There are a thousand things that could go wrong, and any…
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If you take a look at Steam's most-popular games right now, you'll see some familiar faces: Dota 2, Counter-Strike,…
Having followed weird games for a good part of my teens and adulthood, I have to say that the virtual companion thing is a recurring idea....
Anyone remember desktop animals and creatures like that sheep, orange (olympic or world cup mascot character if I'm not mistaken), or some anime characters? I think there was a…
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The simplicity and relative lack of direct interaction kind of reminds me of Seaman :) Read more
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The mountain with a horse for a head sighed, "I'll never forget this snowy day." And then it got hit by a flying…
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Violence in games can be great—not to mention really powerful, as we recently discussed. What about the other side…
5 hours. Damn Vapors of Lethe. Read more
Well done, Participant! It looks like you will survive for a very respectable two hours in the Chamber! If you do not lose your way or become a faceless extension of the Swarm That Is One Mind, you might have time to light as many as three of the 12 Beacons Of The Hopeless. Unfortunately, shortly afterward your blood… Read more
I'm reminded of a time while I was playing Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, it was just another mission in the world of video games. I had a squad of Germans pinned down behind a wall near a hedgerow and one of them broke cover and I shot him. He staggered and then collapsed.
Then something inside me just clicked. I… Read more
That's a great point from Walt Williams about Fallout 3. I'd never even thought about that, but because I play Fallout games as do-gooder (I really don't like being EVIL-evil for the hell of it) I managed to avoid killing the Overseer my first time playing. But to think of how the game reacts to your actions like that… Read more
FFVI, when Kefka kills Leo. Comes out of nowhere. I was slackjawed for at least ten minutes when I first played through that. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPQEnO… Read more
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This moment in Wolfenstein: The New Order, while not the most violent, was really creepy.
I'm reminded of what Kirk wrote about Bioshock Infinite's sudden violence. Read more
I was shocked when Link stabbed Ganon in the head. Especially since Celda had such a light hearted look to the game yet ganon had the most gruesome death in the series. Read more
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There's really no getting around it: many, many games are about violence, and sometimes it can be a bit much. Kill…
Downloadable content (DLC) is often a sore subject, with some gamers feeling shortchanged by map and weapon packs…
The best conspiracy theory in gaming this week just might be that Valve fixed the game they built around their infamo…