Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

PERSONAL ADVENTURES IN GAMES

OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

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REMEMBER THE BACK OF THE ARCADE, WHERE THE NOT-SO-FLASHY COIN-OPS LURKED IN THE DARKNESS, WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED? BACK IN 1987, THIS IS WHERE YOU’D LIKELY HEAR A BLOOD-CURDLING FEMALE SCREAM THAT COULD BELONG TO ONLY ONE GAME… SEGA’S COIN-OP CREATURE FEATURE ALIEN SYNDROME

From inventing the extraction shooter to finally reaching 1.0, the creator of Escape From Tarkov has refused to compromise on its original game-changing vision