Too Many Series Forgot How To Count To 4

First published in GRIND IV, page 3.

TOO

MANY

SERIES

FORGOT HOW TO COUNT

UP

”Per aspera ad GRIND!”

What do Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, DOOM (2016) and the film The Matrix Resurrections have in common?

They all forgot how to count up to 4: and instead of producing a sequel, they rebooted, reinvented, reimagined and/or rebuilt the series from the ground up.

GRIND magazine, however, is made from a different dough. The scovergi expansion is in full swing and shows no sign of letting up — soon they will completely fill the space on collectors' shelves!

We're back before Christmas, in Anno Domini 2024, with a magazine thicker, glossier, richer and more packed with content than ever before!

The number of authors contributing to the project has grown. The quantity of topical articles, looking back on the memorable releases of 2024, is also at a new historical high. And, as the muscles in your fingers and forear-

TO 4

ms can feel, the page count is breaking new records! But quantity without quality is like a collection of expansion packs for The Sims 4: the same Mary, just in a different hat — and making a different mess.

That would mean us putting out a GRIND that's insipid, odourless and monochrome. But the content you'll find within these pages marks a new literary zenith for each author.

What, did you think we reached our absolute moment of glory last year when we launched the magnificent GRIND 3? Were you under the impression that we'd spend our time reflecting on past glories and polishing earlier works? Well, you weren't entirely wrong… because in 2024 we already gave you the remade version of the first GRIND!

But the project always looks forward, even when we who write it feel overwhelmed by nostalgia for childhoods lost in front of CRT monitors. Because, although our lives are short and ephemeral, the grind is eternal and crowned with glory. In memory of the hundreds of hours of button-mashing in front of bright screens, in the hope that our impressions will be appreciated and discussed, it gives me great pleasure to present GRIND 4: a new frontier of journalism with and about games, traced by people who understand very well the sacrifice this art entails.

To you, those who still read: we respect you, we salute you, we thank you, and we are about to delight you with a consummate, uncompromising work. It's what we ourselves would have wanted to find in a magazine from Romania… and we hope this aspiration is a constant you'll feel throughout the read.

Per aspera ad GRIND!

VLAD COSTEA