Geoff 'Zag' Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: 'Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2'

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Geoff Keene/Krafton) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer Get the PC Gamer Newsletter Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Every Friday GamesRadar+ Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you’re going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them. 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The first time he saw Diablo was at a LAN party organised by his dad’s coworkers. “They all had these computers in the basement, like 10 of them or something,” he says. “I remember clicking around and just being kind of lost … I think that must have been the first time I was thinking about videogames as more than just a thing that’s around, but actually like a hyper-fixation.”Keene entered the games industry with his first company, Sandswept Studios. Its initial project, the ill-fated survival sim The Dead Linger, offered a hard lesson in the challenges of game design. But after developing Unfortunate Spacemen and a brief stint at Rocketwerkz, Keene founded Deep Field Games, creators of the brilliant survival sim Abiotic Factor, where players assume the roles of scientists exploring a giant underground research facility.Deep Field is now working on a new project, while also planning more updates for Abiotic Factor. “We’ll have a new roadmap soon for ABF,” he says. “All through 2026, we’re doing updates. We’ve got some DLC planned. We’re following some other story threads. We have a bunch of stuff we want to do with ABF becau