Games 08 in rotation

What I play
when I stop building.

A running list, and the occasional screenshot I couldn’t bring myself to delete.

Now playing

Forza Horizon 5

Open-world racing — the modern descendant of the racing games he started on.

Playground Games playing
Wuthering Waves

Kuro Games playing
Tomb Raider (2013)

Crystal Dynamics playing
Marvel Rivals

Hero shooter.

NetEase Games playing
Valorant

Tactical shooter.

Riot Games playing
Bayonetta

playing

Some of these are converted from HDR captures — a few may read a touch overexposed next to the ones shot natively in SDR.

01 Rockstar Games

Rockstar again, two decades on from Vice City.

02 Playground Games

Open-world racing — the modern descendant of the racing games he started on.

Need for Speed II: Special Edition

One of the games running on the PC he was learning to take apart and reinstall Windows on, at fourteen.

Electronic Arts played
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Played around that same age, on the same machine he was busy figuring out how to reinstall and rebuild.

Rockstar North played
Zuma

Also from that period — one of the games that gave the tinkering something to be for.

PopCap Games played
Apex Legends

Squad-based battle royale.

Respawn Entertainment played

01 IO Interactive

Bond, as an origin story.