![]() The Hunger Games is grim, but it's more of a tragic hero's journey than straight horror Battlegrounds, at least in my experience, grips you with unrelenting tension. ![]() The West got its own version of the premise in The Hunger Games almost a decade later, but Battlegrounds hews closer in style and tone to its Japanese antecedent. How Overwatch Became a Rarity: The Troll-Free Online Shooter Arrow It's missing features and limited in scope-its own description says it's "being developed with community feedback." It's rife with glitches and errors that range from minor to game-breaking it's the sort of game that you sometimes have to struggle with to play. First released onto the Steam marketplace as an unfinished Early Access title in late March, it initially bears a strong resemblance to most other unfinished titles on the platform. This is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a PC game that takes survival of the fittest as a religious mantra. I hear gunfire, but before I can even pinpoint where it's coming from, I'm dead. I open the bathroom door, creep out of the abandoned house-slowly, slowly-and crouch-run through an open field. I wait until I get the alert that I'm no longer in a safe zone. My eyes wander, tracing the cracks in the tiled walls, examining the mouldering toilet. I might look like I'm camping, crouched in the corner with my shotgun pointed at the door, but this isn't about taking advantage of unsuspecting prey-it's about survival. I've been hiding in the bathroom for the past five minutes now, an eternity in game time.
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