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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.

The beauty of Fire Pro lies in how deep the customization for created wrestlers can get. Whereas WWE games give you maybe a handful of settings to tweak, Fire Pro games let you customize everything from how long a wrestler can last before getting winded to their favorite under-the-ring weapon. The crown jewel of this Read more

I am still not convinced dive meta is neccessarilly a problem that needs intervention. Read more

It will definitely be interesting to see Doomfist released and all the weird things people do with him! I’m sure there’s some kind of surprise hero synergy or strategy that hasn’t been discovered yet, just waiting to happen. Read more

I love hearing about Meta Athena. They always go for some weird stuff and usually it works out. Read more

You have to give it to speedrunners when become the source of a game’s relevancy by being the only people playing the game five/ten years later.

I like that a game like BlazBlue lets you revert to older versions of the game in the options. Read more

A similar thing happened with Journey actually! There’s a dedicated community based around leaving the level boundaries to go backstage and see how the levels are constructed and see areas of the game from new angles, like the Sunset slope bit, and advanced players will often show new players these areas (but only if Read more

It’s a start. In my experience, the only thing that keeps cheaters in check on multiplayer servers (at least for building/survival games) is a staff of dedicated moderators. If there aren’t mods on almost 24/7, script kiddies can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time. The automated tools are important, too, but Read more

Oh man, the promotion for Nunes Vs Rousey was terrible. It was all Rousey. Then Rousey is destroyed and no one cares about Nunes. They never tried to make a base of fans for Nunes. They have no foresight, none. More recently the UFC appears to only have a Plan 9. Read more

I have very similar experiences. I’m am way too shy and nervous to play competitively, but lately, I find myself wanting to get better at my games of choice.

I’ve been playing a ton of Injustice 2. I’m getting pretty confident in my ability to play. I even did a few online matches! (Until my anxiety peaks and I quit Read more

When people are watching me play Overwatch and say something like “wow, you haven’t died once”, it’s basically a death sentence. Read more

I am both the best Battlegrounds player in existence from 100-20 players alive, and the absolute worst from 19-1. Read more

Now you’ve got me wanting a game just like this except with no guns and tons of different martial arts styles you can choose from in the beginning. Read more

At least it wasn’t a bag of real dicks. Read more

More like PlayerWellKnown. Amirite, guys? Guys? Read more

Honestly the highlight overhaul is really fantastic too, especially for PC users! Read more

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I would not say 65 million players is not a bad number. No one expected the 750 million to hold up. Read more

so... basically what the original trailer showed us with the mewtwo group event. Read more

See, this is how you do it - add value, don’t take it away. Read more

Hope that counseling helps, sounds like he has some stuff to work out. Read more