Screenshot: GSC Game World You approach the camp at night, alone. It is dark, but you do not want them to know where you are—so your flashlight remains in your bag. You can barely make out the enemies’ positions, your only referent being the lights cast from beneath the barrels of their guns. You move …
2021 has been a tremendously odd year. It has also been my first year with a real job as a games writer. This means that I have a lot of pent-up feelings from the past several years about video games that I love, many of which are embodied by this very strange and messy list–which, …
Image: STALKER 2 STALKER 2 developers GSC Game World announced yesterday that they’d be adding NFTs to the game. Public reception was, as you’d imagine, not kind. NFTs (and the blockchain itself) are an environmental disaster, a pump-and-dump scam and a pointless assault on existing technologies and systems that don’t need fixing all at once, …
Because we didn’t spend $2,000 for an Xbox. Screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku Xbox Game Pass is a good name for a subscription games service. Xbox Game Pass for PC is not, so Microsoft got together with rappers Lil Dicky and GaTa last night during The Game Awards to announce the PC version’s new name, the …