Nathan Grayson - Aftermath (Page 17)

The Painstaking Process Of Adding Rideable Horses To Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas does not contain horses, but it feels like it should. The now 14-year-old game’s whole vibe is exceedingly Wild West, and yet there’s nary a

By Nathan Grayson

/ 4 Sep 2024

The Painstaking Process Of Adding Rideable Horses To Fallout: New Vegas

Concord Shows That The Triple-A Pivot To Live Service Was Always Doomed

Concord, the latest game in Sony’s ongoing live service salvo, came out a week and a half ago. Already, the writing was on the wall. There was no buzz.

By Nathan Grayson

/ 3 Sep 2024

Concord Shows That The Triple-A Pivot To Live Service Was Always Doomed

Why Big Games Like Concord Aren’t Surefire Successes Anymore

Sony, a pillar of the video game industry, recently released a big new multiplayer tentpole game, but you wouldn’t know it based on buzz. Concord, which iterates on the

By Nathan Grayson

/ 31 Aug 2024

Why Big Games Like Concord Aren’t Surefire Successes Anymore

The First Democratic National Convention To Invite Content Creators Was Marked By Uncomfortable Tension

If you only caught the highlights, last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago looked like a glamorous, four-day-long coronation for Kamala Harris. But outside the United Center, protests raged,

By Nathan Grayson

/ 28 Aug 2024

The First Democratic National Convention To Invite Content Creators Was Marked By Uncomfortable Tension

French Game Developers Allege Mismanagement, Go On Strike In Minecraft (And Real Life) [Update]

To hear French game dev union STJV tell it, workers at Spiders – the studio behind flawed but consistently-ambitious role-playing games like Greedfall, Steelrising, and The Technomancer – are not having a

By Nathan Grayson

/ 27 Aug 2024

French Game Developers Allege Mismanagement, Go On Strike In Minecraft (And Real Life) [Update]

Fandom Has Turned Everybody Into Emotional Shareholders (Derogatory)

Why can’t people just play a game, say it’s fine, and move on anymore? Why does everything – whether it’s a finite single-player experience like Black Myth: Wukong

By Nathan Grayson

/ 25 Aug 2024

Fandom Has Turned Everybody Into Emotional Shareholders (Derogatory)

Kamala Harris’ First Twitch Stream Peaked At Under 1,000 Viewers, Some Of Whom Spammed Palestinian Flags

Kamala Harris, current United States vice president and the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, now has a Twitch channel. Yesterday evening, her team broadcasted from it for the first

By Nathan Grayson

/ 23 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris’ First Twitch Stream Peaked At Under 1,000 Viewers, Some Of Whom Spammed Palestinian Flags

Black Myth: Wukong’s ‘Feminist Propaganda’ Streaming Restrictions Are Unusual, But Not Unprecedented

Chinese action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong is officially a hit, breaking Steam’s concurrent single-player record within hours of release. It’s also embroiled in a culture war that, unlike a

By Nathan Grayson

/ 21 Aug 2024

Black Myth: Wukong’s ‘Feminist Propaganda’ Streaming Restrictions Are Unusual, But Not Unprecedented

We Don’t Have To Keep Molydeuxing This

Yesterday, as part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, the nothingburger-est of Geoff Keighley’s annual trio of too-long trailer extravaganzas, the host trotted out Peter Molyneux. If you’re over

By Nathan Grayson

/ 21 Aug 2024

Valve’s Mystique Is Served By Silence

There is much we can take away from the recent furor around Verge reporter Sean Hollister’s decision to do his job by revealing basic information about a new Valve

By Nathan Grayson

/ 16 Aug 2024

Streamer Playing Through GTA IV With Traffic Speed At Max: ‘If Life Is Suffering, Why Not Choose More Suffering – And More Life’

It would not be unfair to call Tom Walker a madman. It would probably be more fair to call him an Australian comedian who streams games on Twitch – because that’

By Nathan Grayson

/ 14 Aug 2024

Streamer Playing Through GTA IV With Traffic Speed At Max: ‘If Life Is Suffering, Why Not Choose More Suffering – And More Life’

Not Even Helldivers 2 Can Escape From Live Service Hell

Remember when everybody was awooga-eyes in love with Helldivers 2? When the whole world had Joel Fever and every inch given or taken in the game’s endless intergalactic tug-of-war

By Nathan Grayson

/ 14 Aug 2024

Not Even Helldivers 2 Can Escape From Live Service Hell