apocalypse

The Quiet Moments In Metro: Last Light’s Apocalypse

Mood is such an important thing in a nuclear apocalypse; a detail that is so easy to forget. That’s something that’s painfully palpable in the first hour of Metro: Last Light


50,000 People Used To Live Here, Now It’s A Minecraft Town

Minecraft aficionado Tsarcorp is the one responsible for this gigantic, 109sqkm map of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It incorporates an almost 1:1 replica of the Pripyat area, just as we’ve seen in the latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R.


These Video Game Towns And Villages Were Doomed From The Start

Oh those lovely hometowns, starting villages… Their peaceful and harmonious atmosphere ensures that there’s nothing to worry about; our journey is yet to begin. And then suddenly, it’s all gone, leaving behind nothing but dust. And sometimes a bit of fire.


The Most Atmospheric Post-Apocalyptic Video Game Worlds

Post-apocalyptic worlds in video games don’t necessarily have to be grimdark, depressing or colourless. There are many fine examples where the game’s design either moves beyond these tropes, or develops them to perfection. We have collected a few of them below.


Little Inferno Is A Delightfully Grim Tale, And Its Best Story Is A Hidden One

Maybe it’s because Little Inferno doesn’t present the side of Armageddon that we’re used to seeing in games, but you might not even pick up on its apocalyptic storyline. Yet as I burned prize after prize in my Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace, a thought tugged at the back of my mind: why am I doing this?


Final Pocket God Update Blames Scientology For The End Of The World

Those poor Mayans. All this time we’ve been pointing to their broken calendar with anxiety and dream, when we really should have been pointing at completely plausible alien-based religion created by a science fiction author. Do you think there’ll be Tom Cruise? Oh yeah, there’ll be Tom Cruise.


The World Won’t End This Month (But If It Did, It Should Look Like This)

As you may be aware, there’s a belief that the Mayans predicted the end of the world this month. They didn’t. But just the thought of the apocalypse has people dreaming up ways they’re going to meet the end of days.


The Massive Delivers A Chilling, Water-Logged Look At The End Of The World

Most pop-culture apocalypses crank up the volume, right? Whether it’s alien invasions or natural disasters, the end of civilisation as we know it tends usher in a whole lot of noise pollution. So, the palpable silence left by mankind’s near-extinction happens so quietly is one of the best things about The Massive.


A Nuclear PC Mod For A Post-Apocalyptic World

This gorgeous monstrosity was once an Antec Lanboy Air, which is lovely but hardly capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust. Mod Brothers Podcast host Kyle Van Der Mewre and Mnpctech‘s Bill Owen saw fit to fix that, and fix it they did.


It’s Our Last Day On Earth. What Are You Going To Play?

Today is the Rapture, according on one Harold Camping, a minister who sounds like Vincent Price and looks like a pickle in a deep fryer. All the Christians will be spirited to heaven, while the rest of us will be left to suffer the tribulations of the coming apocalypse. Babylon Surf City, let’s go!


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