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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.

It’s plays like this that win games. Reinhardt is just too damn good and I wish more people would play him. There’s this weird stigma that Reinhardt isn’t fun... which isn’t true at all.. he’s one of the higher skillcap characters that requires a ton of intelligence to play. It’s all about rallying your team, Read more

I’ve watched quite a few people play this game on Twitch and they absolutely love it. Just because a game is in “Early Access” doesn’t mean it can’t be polished and incredibly fun. Read more

An amazing game. If you haven’t picked it up yet you’re missing out! Infinitely better than H1Z1 and any Arma mods you will find out there. It’s still a bit buggy but I have faith they will be worked out over its time in Early Access. Read more

For the past few years, I’ve always wondered if it is possible for a volunteer could teach convicts how to design and code, especially develop websites and apps. It’s such a marketable skill, and you don’t need to be hired by anyone to use it or make money. Read more

It’s a nice idea, and something that will engage them which is important. Read more

that’s a really cool program, and could do a lot to help them work through issues in their life. Read more

I would like to remind everyone that this is not censorship and that Playtonic as a private business has the right to express itself as they see fit. If they do not wish to include voice work by a controversial figure in their video game that is well within their right. Jon’s free speech was not violated in any way

Overhaul Overwatch’s Overwrought Overthought.  Read more

Aaargh. We need one for PS4, and PSN accepts nothing but abusive chat reports. Read more

Aww, it was kind of painful to see Orisa get taken down by no less than TWO of the moves she was specifically built to counter. If Juv3nile had only used fortify there, Reinhardt’s hammer wouldn’t have hit, and his charge would have ended up with him on the ground and Orisa standing. Read more

I watched an early version of this game at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop at GDC last year and I was intrigued. It’s like if you could have any single item in Katamari be your character, except down to the sub-atomic level and up to the Galactic level. Read more

Not all game reviews benefit from sharing personal stories, but this one certainly did. Read more

“Map isn’t Dust? /quit” pretty much sums up what I remember back when I played. Specially when the server did polls. “Choose new map! Oh, look. Dust again.”
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When I checked it out it seemed there were almost way too many places to check/clear/get peeked from. Part of the balance in maps is limiting the likely hiding places so the game reverts to executes and tactics, rather than trying to guess where the enemy might be ambushing you from. The B site is full of narrow Read more

I played two games and liked it, but both games ended by my team steam rolling the opposition as CTs. Both game we had good T side games, loosing slightly and than it was a massacre. Read more

Saw these gals play in 2005 , before their first album was released. They already had a huge following somehow. Really amazing performance! Didn’t really dig the new album or follow the last couple, but at the time they were definitely special stuff; most of my 2005 Highschool bros still listen to Eisley, and these Read more

I’m from the same town as these guys! I was working at Hastings and remember when their first couple of EPs came out back when they were Mos Eisley. Man...people lost their shit over them Dupree kids.

That reminds me, side note, semi-related. A buddy of mine was in a local band that had a decent following across the Read more