Nathan Grayson - Aftermath (Page 26)

Suicide Squad Is Fine

Last night I downloaded the “early access” version of Suicide Squad, a lightning rod for controversy that happens to come bundled with a video game. After playing for an hour,

By Nathan Grayson

/ 1 Feb 2024

Big-Name YouTubers And Twitch Streamers Aren't Actually Retiring

Over the years, YouTube and Twitch have given us too many trends to count, but the latest is one that will be difficult for parasocially-minded fans to imitate: retirement. The

By Nathan Grayson

/ 31 Jan 2024

Big-Name YouTubers And Twitch Streamers Aren't Actually Retiring

Sony Forces Rebrand Of Bloodborne Fan Game From Creator It Had Already Allowed To Release A Bloodborne Fan Game

“Welp, it happened,” developer Lilith Walther said on Twitter late last week. “Sony contacted me.” Walther has spent the past two years working on Bloodborne Kart – a meme turned Mario-Kart-esque

By Nathan Grayson

/ 29 Jan 2024

Sony Forces Rebrand Of Bloodborne Fan Game From Creator It Had Already Allowed To Release A Bloodborne Fan Game

The Damage

Yesterday, Microsoft laid off nearly 2,000 people in its gaming division, or about eight percent of the division in total. Initially, this was followed by confusion from workers: Where

By Nathan Grayson

/ 26 Jan 2024

Introducing: Aftermath Hours, Our Weekly Podcast

It’s been a mere three months since we, the staff of Aftermath, invented blogging and revolutionized the internet, but today we’re trying something a little different. We call

By Nathan Grayson

/ 26 Jan 2024

Introducing: Aftermath Hours, Our Weekly Podcast

I Am Fine With The Robot Spider

I haven’t played much Diablo IV since the game came out last year, since the long-forgotten days when you had to hack your Steam Deck (by installing some very

By Nathan Grayson

/ 24 Jan 2024

It’s Not That Deep

Ever since last Friday heralded the dawn of a new era – The Age Of Palworld – games industry pundits have feverishly sought to explain the game’s record-breaking launch. What brain-scrambling

By Nathan Grayson

/ 23 Jan 2024

Over the weekend, John Carmack, co-founder of Doom developer Id Software, researcher of the kind of AI nobody is sure how to achieve, questionable convention attender, and ex-rocket ship entrepreneur,

By Nathan Grayson

/ 22 Jan 2024

Four Hours In, 'Pokémon With Guns' Hasn't Given Me Any Guns

Palworld, which launched into early access on Friday, is a sensation. In just a handful of hours, it sold over one million copies, and it peaked at over 370,000

By Nathan Grayson

/ 19 Jan 2024

Four Hours In, 'Pokémon With Guns' Hasn't Given Me Any Guns

Mystery Solved

If you’re an Aftermath OG – a longtimer who’s been here for two entire months, the truest of real ones – you’ll remember one of my first pieces for

By Nathan Grayson

/ 18 Jan 2024

Video Game Ownership Is Already Dead

In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay said something that, frankly, is not surprising to hear from a director of subscriptions: He wants players

By Nathan Grayson

/ 17 Jan 2024

Speedrunning Dog

A dog named Peanut Butter just completed a run during this year's Awesome Games Done Quick speedrun marathon. He played through all of Gyromite, a game that came

By Nathan Grayson

/ 16 Jan 2024