From the start, the lead developer of Crime Opera: The Butterfly Effect, Sean Bester, wanted his game to be…
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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.
Jeremy “DisguisedToast” Wang, who you might remember from his grueling shiny Pokémon ordeal earlier this week, is moving from Twitch to Facebook Gaming. This exclusivity deal comes in the wake of similar Twitch departures from high-profile streamers like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, and Jack…
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Half-Life: Alyx, you might be dismayed to learn, is definitely not Half-Life 3. But it is a new “full-length” Half-Li…
You win some, you lose some. Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you. Long have these sorts of…
It is 2019. Valve just announced a new Half-Life game. All bets are off now. Quit your job. Buy a lottery ticket.…
Many games have multiple branching paths where players decide who lives and who dies, indie role-playing game…
There was a time when a sequel meant something. I don’t mean that in a wistful, “back in my day” sort of way. I mean…
After a years-long ascent from action-RPG also-ran to PC gaming mainstay, Path of Exile, the free-to-play game that…
Pokémon Sword and Shield are out today. It should be a joyous occasion, except that some players have hit quite a…
Before the tail end of August, Daniel “Jokerd” Gobey was basically a nobody. Then he won the worldwide race to hit…
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Today, as part of Microsoft’s XO19 conference in London, Outer Worlds developer Obsidian announced its first project…
Whatever you think about Hideo Kojima’s latest fever dream—which imagines a world exactly like our own, except that…
Some memes explode into the collective consciousness with no remorse or regret, frothing at the mouth and daring hapl…
FairTube, a group pushing for YouTubers to unionize that has backing from the largest trade union in the EU, has commented on YouTube’s controversial new terms of the service. The new terms give the company “sole discretion” to remove videos that are “no longer commercially viable,” which has led to renewed calls for…
Movie Sonic is back. After dying earlier this year so that we could be saved from his own sinful visage, Sonic has…
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To say that YouTubers have an uneasy relationship with the company that hosts their videos would be a massive…
If you’re the sort of person who sees packs of animals majestically gallivanting about in forests or on the National…
There’s a meditative quality to soaring through Elite: Dangerous’ vast reconstruction of outer space, but every once…
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Earlier today, Cecilia and I streamed a few matches with brand new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter Terry Bogard,…
After 15 years and seven expansions, World of Warcraft has become the content equivalent of a foot-tall (not -long)…