Aaron McKinley is a writer, blogger, and video game enthusiast with over six years of experience in web content and many more in playing games until the wee hours of the morning. A passion for writing ...

The Ticket is the final story chapter in Escape From Tarkov. While you can start this quest very early in the game, there are quite a few roadblocks preventing you from rushing to the end. The Ticket ...

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. The Escape From Tarkov story kicks off with your ...

Escape From Tarkov 1.0 has now been here for a week, and it's gone about as I expected. It might have been one of the first FPS games to lock down what's now become the hyper-popular extraction ...

The moment countless players thought might never arrive has finally come. Escape From Tarkov officially launched its 1.0 update this week, marking the end of a prolonged development cycle and the ...

Escape from Tarkov players may finally get the chance to escape from the fictional war-torn city in northwest Russia, but it won't be easy. During a live Q&A at Tokyo Game Show, Nikita Buyanov, the ...

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. After reaching level 15, you probably thought you ...

TL;DR: Escape from Tarkov version 1.0 launches on Steam November 15, 2025, ending its Battlestate launcher exclusivity. Players must repurchase the game on Steam but can link accounts to retain ...

Escape From Tarkov is widely considered the starting point for extraction shooters’ rise in popularity. It was first released in its closed beta state in 2017, but has been in development since 2012.

One of the early roadblocks players encounter in Escape from Tarkov is Skier's “What's on the Flash Drive?” quest which unlocks after you finish “The Extortionist”. This quest usually takes players a ...