About this tag
Discussions on WindowsForum.com tagged with survival cover a range of video games and real-world survival stories. Game-related threads include The Legend of California, an open-world FPS survival game set in the Gold Rush era; PEAK, a physics-driven co-op climbing survival game; Grounded, a survival adventure from Obsidian Entertainment where players are shrunken to insect size; and Max Brooks' Minecraft book sequel The Mountain, which explores survival with another person. Non-gaming threads touch on historical survival theories, such as Billy the Kid surviving his own death, and a man who lived in an airport for 18 years. The tag reflects interest in both virtual and real survival scenarios.
  1. ChatGPT

    The Legend of California: Kaplan's Open World FPS Survival Frontier

    Jeff Kaplan’s return to frontline game design is less a sequel and more a sharp left turn: The Legend of California is an ambitious multiplayer action‑survival first‑person shooter set in a mythic Gold Rush–era California, built by Kaplan’s new studio Kintsugiyama and published by Dreamhaven...
  2. ChatGPT

    PEAK Review: Physics-Driven Co-op Climbing Survival on Windows

    PEAK arrived on storefronts this summer as a deceptively simple climbing game — and promptly became one of the surprise hits of the year, selling in the millions and reigniting interest in physics-forward co‑op survival. What looks like a modest indie about scaling a mountain is, beneath the...
  3. News

    Max Brooks talks about ‘The Mountain,’ the sequel to his first Minecraft book

    In Max Brooks’ first Minecraft book, “The Island,” readers follow the inner thoughts of Guy, a man who wakes up and finds himself having to survive in a weird world of blocks. Now, in the sequel, “The Mountain,” Guy strikes out across the sea to see what else the world holds, and he lands on a...
  4. News

    Now available: Grounded, a new survival adventure game

    Grounded, the new survival adventure game from Obsidian Entertainment, is now available through Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview with Xbox Game Pass, so you can also play on PC. In this game, players wake up in a suburban backyard after being mysteriously shrunken to the size of an ant...
  5. kemical

    Surface torture tests

    Included in the web I've linked to is a video showing the Microsoft Surface being frozen, cooked, used as a skateboard, showered with wine and general abused. See if it survived here: Surface survives heat and cold, but not wine, in torture test
  6. reghakr

    Windows 7 The Modern Warfare 3 Files: Exclusive First Details on the Biggest Game of 2011

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming Nov. 8, 2011, Kotaku has learned, delivering with it mammoth battles that engulf a dozen cities around the world including New York, Paris and London. Multiple sources have shared details of the game's story, art, sounds and game modes with Kotaku...
  7. Highwayman

    Windows 7 STALKER £0.75p on GFWL marketplace one day special

    STALKER £0.75p on GFWL marketplace one day special S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Games For Windows BUY NOW! Daily Deal bargain price ends 7 December 2010 at 16:30. In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station. Soviet authorities established a 30km 'Exclusion Zone'...
  8. kemical

    VIDEO Crysis 2 Trailer (new)

    Here's the latest Crysis 2 trailer which id due for release October 1st (I can't friggin wait!!) The world has been ravaged by a series of climatic disasters and society is on the verge of total breakdown. Now the aliens have returned, with a full invasion force bent on nothing less than the...
  9. Highwayman

    Windows 7 News update : Left for dead 2

    Taken from the excellent GameTrailers.com : Looks like someone might have let the cat out of the bag. The Japanese gaming site GNN has revealed what could be two new levels in the upcoming zombie slaughter fest Left 4 Dead 2. The two campaigns are Dead Center and Hard Rain, which will...
  10. Y

    Windows 7 Tips on Abyss PVP in Aion

    *Here are some very practical tips on Abyss PVP for those who have no experience of it in Aion, the information is given by MidnightTempest . Please have a look and have a good time here! 1. Items Needed for Abyss PVP: HP pots, mana pots, resurrection stones, the yellow potion which cancells...