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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.

This is dumb, I’ve already had the mobile version for years! And I’m doing really well, haven’t lost a life yet.
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My opinion is that this was all but necessary after they adopted policies that locked out so many of the strongest e-sports forces out there at the moment. They needed to show that there can still be profit in running a team as a traditional e-sport at the same time they’re trying to evolve it to the next level, Read more

It honestly amazes me just watching esports evolve. Like no joke this is wicked cool Read more

Just as a heads-up, there’s an earlier version of this free on itch.io: Read more

They get a cut from sales on the marketplace as far as I’m aware. Read more

Honestly the only one that surprises me is Portal 2 (and not just because I figured the original would be higher-rated). Smaller indie games tend to spread by word-of-mouth among people who are already predisposed to love that kind of game. It’s the big name games that tend to have an uphill battle winning over a Read more

I’ve played so much of OFDP and i still love it. I got friends into it and they got their friends into it. That game’s a blast. Read more

Oh my God, Factorio looks like the micromanagement game that I have always wanted but feared because I know I’ll waste so much time on it. But it looks so pretty and I’m always a sucker for these types of top-down/isometric art styles and look at that train and those animals and the sprite animation, oh my! Looks like Read more

I believe, fundamentally, the most important compliment I have for Dead Cells (which, btw, is worth every penny it costs to play in its current state) is that the really awesome maneuvers and action pulled off in the very impressive trailer are all extremely easy for me, the player, to pull off in the game. Read more

Dammit. This is the first time in a long time I’m upset I’m not a PC gamer. Read more

The problem with most esports compared to regular sports is the lack of a “ball” of some kind. A ball creates an easy focus for the spectator, saying: here is where the most important action will take place. But in a typical Overwatch match, there’s a Pharmercy battle going on in the sky, a Reinhardt shield battle Read more

On top of that, Overwatch’s spectator tools are sorely lacking and make high-level play confusing to watch for newcomers. Read more

re: the last paragraph, TBS aired an overwatch tournament like 6 months ago and we were having dinner at my girl’s parents house. they know i play the game, but don’t know jack about games in general let alone the specifics of overwatch. they were still able to get sucked into the presentation, i thought it was really Read more

This reminds me of the first time I played through Half-Life 2, which was on the Dell with integrated graphics and barely any ram that I had gotten for school. Pretty much all the major effects had to be turned off, but the game still looked pretty good (thanks, great art direction!) and the game was still very Read more

I really needed a reason to laugh today and this was fantastic. Those poor SWAT side hangers. Can’t imagine what they did to piss their drivers off that badly. Read more

That woman didn’t even bat a fucking eye at a police officer falling out of the sky. Los Santosians are hardcore!
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Remove GTA V and you’ve got yourself a regular and accurate headline Read more

god damn i’ve been resisting buying this game for weeks now because i can’t convince my overwatch buddies to bite with me, but it looks so fun everytime you guys cover it.
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