I had plans, darn it. Grand plans. I was going to go outside, probably. I might have picked a flower. Maybe it…
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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 process of finding games on Steam has become increasingly driven by a tag system. Mouse over, say, Sekiro on…
We have a habit, in the gaming industry, of declaring things “The Year Of ___.” 2013 was The Year Of Luigi. 2014 was…
Given that 2017's Star Wars Battlefront II is broadly considered the tipping point in an anti-loot-box conversation…
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Slime Rancher, the relaxing game about slimes and also ranching, just received a free DLC expansion. It’s called “Viktor’s Experimental Update,” and it sees you delve into a “virtual re-creation” of Slime Rancher’s setting to root out nefarious glitch slimes. You’re able to make use of a whole host of new gadgets in…
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They Are Billions, the tower defense-RTS hybrid that took Steam by storm last year, is now out of early access. The 1.0 update, free to all who previously purchased the game, adds a long-awaited (if, so far, divisive) campaign and new survival mode maps. It also includes a host of bug fixes and addresses stability…
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Overwatch just kicked off a new themed challenge event, this one focused on combat medic Baptiste. Inspired by the “What You Left Behind” short story Blizzard released yesterday, the Reunion Challenge offers new Baptiste cosmetics—including a special skin—to players who win games from June 18 to July 1. You can also…
If you really think about it, all video games—dazzling feats of technical mastery assembled over the course of…
Last week, Dr Disrespect, a popular streamer who parodies toxic gamers by just straight up being one (except in a…
Late last month, the Twitch game category section dedicated to embattled Valve card game Artifact briefly rocketed…
If ever you need proof that there’s no justice in this cruel society of ours, witness the plight of one Mr. Sonny…
In Phantom Brigade’s very first encounter, I immediately found myself severely outnumbered—just two mechs against an…
A few weeks ago, Valve announced that it’d be making its own version of the massively popular Dota 2 mod Auto Chess.…
Embr’s house groaned as fire licked away at its supports. Collapse was imminent. With a panicking resident slung…
Yesterday, popular Twitch streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm walked into an E3 bathroom and walked out without a…
It’s the most video games time of the year, with every developer and their (voice actor’s) dog showing off glamorous…
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Today, popular Twitch streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm got suspended from Twitch after streaming from inside a…
It’s been so long since Tom Nook last bled us dry and left us to die beneath a mountain of themed furniture inside…
Today during its E3 press conference, Square Enix showed off new gameplay footage of the Final Fantasy VII remake…
For the most part, yesterday’s Bethesda E3 press conference was about as standard as they come, albeit with a dash…