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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.

Wow, this is great. I’m definitely getting this. I only played through the game once as a kid, but I have very fond memories of it, especially the ending. Read more

I remember getting a Lucas arts demo disc that had this, dark forces, and rebel assault 2 on it and i played full throttle more than the other two. Can’t wait for this. Read more

I get excited now when I see there’s a new Developer Update, not because there’s new Overwatch news, but because I can’t wait to see what Dinoflask comes up with next. Absolutely amazing videos.
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“you should choke on my lijiang tower”

My first visit to Verdun came on a rainy, cold day with my soon-to-be wife. We walked into the Douamant oOsuary there, a long, oppressive hallway with thick orange frosted glass windows on the outside, and other windows on the inside. Where you can see the bones. Of approximately 130,000 unknown French and German Read more

Glad to see in inclusion of the French . WW1 represents the French military at the height of its power, they were the most feared army in Europe at that time and their exclusion while the USA was included seemed a bit wrong.
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Cowboy Bebob, FLCL, Gurren Lagann. We wanted to do something that was different—both a throwback to old stuff we love” Read more

I tend to be instantly turned off by the “things used to be better” track of logic, but the creators here shore up their reasoning with arguments that go beyond nostalgia, and the line of thought serves more as a supplement to the core, which seems like an interestingly constructed and presented game. I’ll be Read more

I love that he said Batman: Arkham’s supervillains were a big influence. In that 16 minute gameplay video released the other day, at one point we meet a “trickster” orc that has a very Joker vibe to him. Read more

stoked for the brazzers parody. “Shadow of Whoredor: Orxxx and Men”
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“Chu said she was created not as a hype campaign smokescreen, but to bring Orisa’s disparate elements together.” Read more

Obviously this leads to the very important question, “Where’s my Overwatch Saturday morning cartoon?” Read more

Anything inspired by Eric Chahi’s “Out of this World” is a win in my book. Yeah, the 80's aesthetic works so well with this, probably because it falls back on the weird essence of the 80's and doesn’t rely on “look a rubiks cube/delorean/power glove” tropes that so many others do. Read more

The article I believe sums up the risks pretty well. The sad truth is that A LOT of streamers will give advice that in order to grow as a streamer you need to stream long hours (at least 5) as you are trying to basically outlast your competition so when they go offline, their viewers move to you.

So basically it’s a Read more

So it is true.... In a dream, I saw the Eastern sky grow dark. But in the West, a pale light lingered. A voice was crying, “The doom is near at hand, Isildur’s Bane is found!” Read more