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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.

I read that as “the wealthy” instead of the weather and it made just as much sense. Read more

I predicted (no great skills needed here) that Steam would continue to be capricious and inconsistently violate their own rules even after this latest ‘for sure this time’ and sure enough. Read more

Don’t give a shit if I get dragged for this, but: Read more

As Kotaku’s “connoisseur of Japanese smut games” Mike Fahey once put it, “characters fall into the uncomfortably young category, but rest assured they are whatever age they need to be to ensure publisher NIS America doesn’t get arrested.”
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Good on Andrea and the rest of the GDQ community to push them into what is pretty fucking crystal clear response they should have given at first. Read more

It’s gonna take weeks for me to get the Creep off of my skin after that ending. Holy shit.
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The phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” comes to mind. At this point it seems both performer and the audience are growing sick of each other. There’s a reason why athletes and actors have off seasons and breaks. Because constantly being “on” isn’t really good.  Read more

That tomb raider death scene razzed me out so bad that I actually lost my gaming edge, and kept messing up the sequence, and saw it a dozen more times. Read more

In most games, they’re harmless or only slightly damage you, but sometimes you catch on fire, and your character starts screaming, and it’s a whole thing. Read more

There’s nothing like karaoke with a crowd of people who sing along, dance with you and root for you no matter how terrible you are. If there’s one thing I miss about my pre-fatherhood days, it’s midnight karaoke in Brooklyn. I had karaoke at my wedding, for christ’s sake. Read more

God, all these quotes from Twitchcon panels just make the whole process feel...fraught. But yeah, “Stream like there’s nobody watching.” That nails it. Read more

Back when I was a late teen, an ex-girlfriend of mine tried to turn me on to Coheed, her favorite band. I was pretty reluctant at first, I heard this scream-o band and just kind of shrugged. After we broke up, I came across a few of their songs on..something, I forget even what. I started listening to the lyrics, to Read more

Coheed are and always have been, the shit. Read more

This kind of makes me want to play it more now. I have plenty of super challenging, complex-themed, over-the-top epic games. A cute, light puzzler sounds good to me. Read more

This track is so fucking sick, oh my God. Best opening 3 tracks of a record I’ve heard in a long-ass time! Read more