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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.

Really wanted the Mercy skin, bought 11 boxes and leveled up from 150 to 171. But alas it was not meant to be. But perhaps that will make me stop spend money on the darn thing. (Christmas themed stuff is usally ugly anyway.)
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First and only Exotic drop was the Mercy Witch skin. Read more

Wonder what a Polka based on Blizzard’s games would be like...
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Blizzard doesn’t make video games - they make interactive narcotics Read more

Weird Al puts on an awesome show. Isn’t he somewhat into games as well? Nothing will be more interesting than Deadmau5 performing for TI5 and then trying to get into Dota2 after because he thought it was cool looking. Read more

As a Finn, can confirm that everyone’s experiences are 100% accurate and true to life.
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When I built my car, everything was fine, but water pump kept failing, suddenly fan belt dissapeared, no replacement part in store. Now in changelog it is said that all despawned parts respawn on landfill, where drag racers occur. Thanks, now I have to take a van, and drive half a map and search on enormous field for Read more

I remember the first Arcade Brawl - I ended up with my friends in a 45 minute slog on king’s row against a team of six invincible Meis. We eventually took the first point, and it was another further 20 minutes from there to a hard-won victory. It was beautiful, chaotic madness. I got a match card for doing something Read more

Yeah, the critical piece here is that it’s not one you PLAY TO WIN. Read more

Cannot decide if this is needlessly complicated, or actually useful. Read more

In a desperate move to get people to buy stamps, Poland releases special Gwent stamps. Read more

Lol, those types are always my favorite. I saw one where a widow maker literally missed all her shots, than ulted, body shot someone, who was killed by someone else. Read more

I saw a POTG in which Pharah got one kill and then shot herself against a railing. After that I figured POTGs weren’t really serious. Read more

One contributing factor of the low rate of PotGs for those characters is what the system recognizes as a massive game-changer based on the characters’ abilities and the extent they reach. Another is player skill behind the character and what passes as common technique. Mercy flying in out of nowhere to rez the whole Read more

What they really need to do is give credit to anyone that sets up a potg. Think about how many potg fuels by nanoboost, or set up by mei or zarya - only to have a junkrat or pharah get all the glory Read more

Tried it out earlier. It’s cool but the density can get silly at times. If the modder can just figure out how to tweak the values or offer a lesser version as an alternative I think it’ll be great. Some really great mods already like the fast action mod, no more holding the A button!

Some of those doors are not even blocked by anything, they are just fake doors. I’m starting to be convinced there is some conspiracy in Prague to install fake doors to thwart the man who is ransacking all the city’s credit chips, electronics parts, Pocket Secretaries and beer. Read more

Cases of Heineken have kept many a doors shut. Make smart decisions kids. Drink Guinness. Read more

They had something good for a while, but now it’s gone too far. I suspect Blizzard will have a more refined approach next time they do something like this. Read more