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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.

They might be a bit salty

I keep telling myself not to get this game until alll the DLC comes out so I can do it all in one playthrough, but they make it a really tough sell. Read more

It could be getting a very HIGH Badass rank and or maybe playing it in NG+ if such a mode is officially confirmed. Read more

Reminds me of The Harbinger from Fable 1 that required a good amount of strength to pull it out of the stone. Read more

Nice, Borderlands 2 was thick with this type of stuff and this is what i hoped Destiny would have. Take notes Bungie. BL:TPS is pretty great and i'm only level 9 right now and i just got my first 2 purples via a moonstone chest. Read more

.... So play The Evil Within before diving in to this one? Read more

Pretty much seems to be the general consensus. It's essentially MOAR Borderlands and it will do nothing to persuade those who hate the series to like it and it won't persuade those who like the series to hate it. Read more

By and large, however, game makers have been content to churn out bland carbon copies of better games coated in the rotten, blood-caked skin suits of familiar series. In no particular order, hello there Aliens: Colonial Marines, Catwoman, Fight Club, most Spider-Man games that aren't Spider-Man 2, most James Bond Read more

Now we just need some good movies based on games... Read more

There's a difference between a licensed game (ie: a Batman, LotR or Alien game) and a movie-tie-in game. The latter is simply based off an existing franchise, the latter has the game's development tied with the production of a movie, which often results in a rushed production and a generally crappy game. Read more

I have been enjoying the stuffing out of Shadow of Mordor. I've been carefully collecting every little thing—and I mostly hate "completionist" activities, because they feel like busy work to make up for a lack of content. Here, though, the feel is different.

I just now (sixteen hours in) unlocked the ability to Read more

It's not the fact they're advertising for games, it's mainly the fact their viewers are unaware of the fact it's a paid advertisement due to the fact they generally hide this somewhere obscure. Read more

So Youtubers are being paid to advertise a game.... Why would they be allowed to say anything negative about it? Would you make a commercial pointing out a flaw in a product you were selling? No. Welcome to America and capitalism. I see no problem here. Read more

Neotopia is—wait for it—on Kickstarter, jangling a very big cup in the air in hopes of catching £250,000, which comes out to about $402,745. Chump change that ain't. And of course, there's the $402,745 question: do people even want a PlayStation Home-style virtual hangout on PlayStation 4? So let's start here: do you? Read more