apocalypse
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Dying Light 2’s Post-Apocalypse Would Be More Fun If It Just Let You Hang Out
I’ve started Dying Light 2 twice now, once on PC, and once on PS5. Both times I’ve had the same struggle: I don’t want to leave that starting location. A few rotting skeletons aside, it’s perfect — it’s where I want to be in an apocalypse. Screw this guy’s missing sister, she’s probably long dead.…
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Boy, I Picked The Worst Time To Start Playing The Division 2
As the world started to realise the true scope of the spread of the novel coronavirus, it seemed like many people turned to apocalyptic and pandemic-based fiction as a peculiar balm to soothe their nerves. I did much the same, but in a more video game fashion, and found that it was much harder to…
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A Strategy Game That Finally Made Me Take Stealth More Seriously
I’m not very good at stealth games. I like the idea of trying to sneak around undetected, but as soon as I get caught all hell breaks loose. In real life I’m happy to be a wallflower, but in games I often want to be at the center of the action, or violently creating it…
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Robert Kirkman’s New Comic Oblivion Song Is About A Nation Trying To Move Past A Supernatural Tragedy
Massive, modern-day disasters that shake countries to their core come in many different forms. But whether they’re natural like hurricanes or man-made like mass shootings, the nations they befall are almost always able to move forward in large part because people can explain what happened. How, though, does a country or even a city come…