Chris Holzworth

This article originally appeared on Kombo, through whom I was able to attend THQ’s Metro 2033 event in San Francisco.

It’s about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Pacific Standard Time, and I’m in downtown San Francisco standing beneath Route 80. I’m exhausted, and the Starbucks vanilla latte I called “breakfast” is not doing its job. Hours earlier, midnight,  I touched down in the City by the Bay after being flown out of Philadelphia, PA. I climbed into a limousine and drove in style to my hotel, the St. Regis, where I succumbed to jetlag-induced sleep. All of this – the flight, the limousine, the five-star hotel – was orchestrated and paid for by THQ. I’m here to cover a press event for Metro 2033, their upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter set in the ruins of Moscow, Russia. Under different circumstances I would not allow THQ to curry favor by footing the bill – integrity, journalistic ethics, that whole thing – but I’m a destitute student, one who does not get paid to be a journalist. One who has never been to San Francisco, video game journalism’s Mecca. How could I turn down this opportunity? Read the rest of this entry »