During a PAX-adjacent Microsoft event in Seattle last week, I’d just finished playing the demo of Backbone, a noir…
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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.
Usually, video game romances are about hot and heavy beginnings or fiery ends. Even visual novels often focus on the…
If Found is a game where you uncover the story by erasing the main character’s diary. It’s a neat-looking mechanic that sounds like it’ll be paired with some fascinating subject matter. First and foremost: a black hole that’s about to destroy the earth. “Erase her diary, uncover secrets, meet a diverse cast of…
Super Meat Boy designer Tommy Refenes knew that the name Forever was cursed territory in video games. Originally, he…
One generally accepted idea about outer space is that it’s really, really hard to get there. It took pretty much the…
There is no formula for surefire success on Steam, but there are at least some commonalities among games that pull…
When Metro Exodus was made an Epic Store exclusive just two weeks before its launch, Valve added fuel to the fire by…
Overwatch is a game with gravity. Assembled from the scraps of the never-released MMORPG Titan by one of the most…
Boat-based mystery darling Return of the Obra Dinn is coming to Switch. Nintendo announced during today’s Nintendo Direct that the Switch version of the 2018 already-classic will be out sometime this fall.
In the time since Valve first started alluding to (and accidentally leaking mock-ups of) a mysterious Steam library…
If you follow video game news relatively closely, you probably know Disintegration as “that upcoming game by one of…
Sighted outside PAX West: Satanists. The Seattle chapter of the Satanic Temple was looking for new recruits outside the Seattle-based convention earlier today, bearing signs with phrases like “Love thyself” and “Love is never a sin.” I was surprised to see them orbiting PAX until I remembered that Satanists love video…
If you watch people play games on Twitch, or you read about them on websites, or you just awoke from a thousand-year…
In the wake of widespread outcry over yesterday’s changes to building, Fortnite developer Epic Games has done a 180…
Even after years of updates, Shovel Knight does not tire, nor does he slow down. He is determined to shovel onward,…
One Monster RPG is a game in which you raise a slime as though it was your own... so you can kill it. You play as a level 99 hero who’s on the tantalizing cusp of level 100, but there’s only one monster left in the world, and it’s history’s scrawniest slime. So you lead the slime around, letting it devour animals,…
A week after its release, Remnant: From The Ashes remains at the top of the Steam charts. It’s safe to say that its…
After two years of anticipation, WoW Classic is finally live. Top streamers from every corner of Twitch are…
Upon its release, Ion Fury seemed like a bullet-proof success. The Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior-inspired retro…
During a Twitch stream earlier this week, popular leftist streamer Hasan Piker made a statement that would, by…