Peter Szpytek

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Peter Szpytek

Extraction shooters are pretty fun. I’ve only played a handful over my gaming career, but while they’re not exactly ‘My Thing’, I certainly see the appeal. There’s something about executing a high-risk, high-reward plan and having to improvise when things inevitably break bad that gets the blood pumping. It’s the kind of genre that perfectly embodies the ‘okay, just one more game’ mentality. That all said, when did everything become an extraction shooter?

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Peter Szpytek

Now that Game Pass prices have done nothing but go up, Microsoft decided that it was finally time for the Xbox Series S to follow suit. Raising the price of both products, however, has completely destroyed their value. It Was Easy To Recommend The Xbox Series S It’s easy to understand why the Series S was a runaway success for Xbox, outselling the more powerful and more expensive Xbox Series X for several financial quarters.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Peter Szpytek

Before the very first Assassin’s Creed released way back in 2007, Kristen Bell (remember when she was in these games?) let slip a major spoiler. The information she revealed wasn’t anything about the twists and turns of Altair’s story, but instead a spoiler for the narrative framing device that Ubisoft was trying to keep quiet.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Peter Szpytek

Discussing value is always a tricky thing. Conversations about whether something is priced fairly always need to be cuffed with a ‘to me’, but as someone who writes about games and gaming hardware for a living, I do a lot of product recommendations, so I’ve got a solid grip on how the average person is going to react to value propositions.

1 week ago | thegamer.com | Peter Szpytek

Video games have taught me that I’m actually super interested in fashion and character design. What a character wears tells us so much about them as a person and good character design can further inform a narrative without having to say a word. I love any game where you can unlock alternate outfits because it gives you a look into what else might be in a character’s wardrobe. Playing dress-up in games is always a lot of fun, but I only ever like it in theory.