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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.

At this point, Steam users have successfully turned the review system into an irrelevant feature of the shop. It’s no longer a place to judge the quality of the game, but instead to express personal umbrage you take with whatever tiny and often irrelevant detail a game has. The old magazine world was dominated by Read more

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Not sure if this is a gaming thing or just the world we live in but it seems like no matter what people find a reason to complain. When it comes to gaming I feel like developers are put in no win situations because they can’t possibly please everyone and they basically have to pick their poison. Read more

I actually always appreciated Uncharted for doing this sort of thing. The typical Movie way of showing a romantic reunion is to have them just make out and pash right on the spot. But it always felt more realistic and heartfelt to me when Nate and Elena simply had a long and strong hug instead, because that’s what I Read more

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As Lieutenant Commander Data would put it, ‘oh shit’.

Wow, this is pretty cool. I saw someone on my friend’s list playing it earlier, which made me realise it had been renamed to ‘Star Wars: Battlefront II (Classic, 2005)‘, but I didn’t realise that that was part of an update that had added new official multiplayer servers. Read more

From someone who just went and fought 15 Thargoids last night, didnt win once, (Since you cant right now until they release the new weapons) what I can tell you is this adds a whooooole other level to this game. I absolutely love this game again. Read more

Stories like this and from Eve are fascinating - obligatory comment with mandatory followup that: I’ve got zero interest in playing the game. Keep it up! Read more

Man, Elite Dangerous has been a slow burn, huh? This is pretty interesting, but I’m more than content to sit on the sidelines and read about it every few months. Read more

I drive an Eternal (Hyundai) Sonata Read more

did you use to work for clickhole.com, you got me Read more

This is pretty much more of the same from OS1 but cranked to 11. The amount of freedom you have in these games...it’s insane. True role playing experience and a true sandbox. I’ve been rooting for Larian ever since Divinity 2(which yes wasn’t the most amazing game ever but damn if it didn’t do some cool things, great Read more

I almost always wait to play games now: so rarely are games polished on release these days, and coupled with DLC, waiting can net you the “full” experience for less money and with fewer bugs, but only if you have the patience. That was what I did with the first game, finally playing Original Sin Enhanced Edition back Read more

I’m glad I backed this game. I’ve played the numerous alpha builds and saw its potential, and the devs, as expected, delivered as they received the feedback from us. Read more

Nipples? That’s burying the lede. Waxing. TONS. OF. WAXING. Read more

About 5 minutes until you step on that mine. Read more