6 Games That Launched Broken and Clawed Their Way Back
A busted launch used to be the end of the story. These six shipped in a state that should have finished them off, then spent years digging out in public.
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The Mods That Outlived the Games They Came From
Half-Life is a museum piece and Counter-Strike still runs the building. The best thing anyone did with these games arrived after release, made by people nobody paid.
Outer Wilds Is the One Game You Can Only Play Once
Nothing you collect survives the twenty-two minute loop. The only thing that carries over is what you worked out, which is why you get exactly one run at this game.
The Card Games That Ate Their Own Video Games
A designer builds a small card game so a tavern has something in it besides dialogue. Every so often the thing gets loose and grows a tournament circuit.
We Made Lasagne in a Mug in Four Minutes and We Have Notes
A dish that normally wants a whole afternoon, compressed into 400ml of ceramic and a slowly rotating glass plate. It works, which is the annoying part.
Instant Noodle Carbonara Is the Best Bad Idea in Your Cupboard
A packet of ramen, an egg, half the seasoning sachet, and a Roman somewhere sitting bolt upright. Seven minutes, a dollar eighty, and it has entered the regular rotation.
Six Appliances Used Entirely Wrong, Ranked by Whether You Should
Dishwasher salmon down to the toaster laid on its side. Six kitchen heresies ranked by how good the food is against how likely you are to void a warranty.
Marathon: The Mac Classic That Died Twice
In 1994 the least likely gaming platform on earth had the most advanced shooter anyone had seen. Thirty years later Bungie revived the name, aimed it at the wrong target, and killed it in public.
Going Medieval: The Best Colony Builder Nobody Is Playing
Five years in Early Access, a full release this March, and a review count a fifth of the game that copied its homework. We have been playing since 2021 and we have complaints about your priorities.
RimWorld Is Still the Gold Standard, and It Is Not Close
Thirteen years, five expansions, 245,000 reviews at 98 percent, and 58,000 mods. The colony sim every other colony sim gets measured against, reviewed by people who have lost years to it.
10 World Records Nobody Should Have Attempted
Ninety-six spoons, thirty-five thousand Big Macs and five hours standing in a box of ice. Ten Guinness World Records that got ratified anyway.
8 Weirdest Sports People Genuinely Compete In
Eight sports with founding dates, written rulebooks and referees with job titles. One of them has an official called the Stickler. Another bans importing your own worms.
10 Weirdest Museums You Can Actually Visit
Ten institutions built around one very specific obsession each, from 16,000 locks of human hair in a Turkish cave to a nine-metre tapeworm in Tokyo. All of them open. All of them checked.
11 Strangest Wikipedia Articles You Can Fall Into Tonight
Wikipedia keeps an internal list of its own weirdest pages. We checked the sources under eleven of them, and the headless chicken was pulling in $4,500 a month.
10 Cursed Food Combinations the Internet Swears By
Ten food pairings the internet calls cursed, sorted into genuine regional traditions and marketing stunts. Exactly one of them turned out to be indefensible.
9 Abandoned Places That Look Like Film Sets
Nine places people walked out of and never went back to, with the dates, the reasons, and whether you can legally get anywhere near them today.
8 Strangest Festivals Around the World
Eight annual festivals still running, still governed by written rules, and still very difficult to explain to a customs officer. One of them protects spectators with a hat.
9 Bizarre Historical Fads That Actually Happened
Nine documented crazes with dates, named originators and prize money attached. One of them ends in a lead-lined coffin. The receipts are stranger than the folklore.
10 Weirdest Vending Machines Around the World
Live crabs held at 5C, gold bars repriced every ten minutes, and a used car lowered out of an eight-story glass tower. All real, all documented, most still running.
10 Deep Sea Creatures That Should Not Be Allowed
Ten animals from the deep ocean, each with a discovery date, a verified depth, and one adaptation that reads like a clerical error. All real. None of them should be allowed.
9 Weird Laws That Are Still on the Books
We read the actual statutes. Nine laws that genuinely exist, from suspicious salmon to Swiss guinea pig quotas, plus three famous ones that were never laws at all.
8 Plants That Behave Suspiciously Like Animals
Eight species that count, hunt by smell, remember being dropped, or operate a working toilet for a small mammal. All verified botany. None of them have a brain.
Cryptids, Ranked by Plausibility
Eight monsters ranked against the actual evidence, plus three that already passed the test. One of them turned out to be a coyote with mange.
9 Strangest Patents Ever Actually Granted
Nine inventions a real examiner looked at, considered carefully, and approved. Including a locking face mask, a childbirth centrifuge, and a legally protected method of swinging sideways.
9 Weirdest Indie Games You Can Actually Play Right Now
Nine games that a major publisher would never have greenlit, all of them purchasable tonight, several of them genuinely great.
8 Board Games Engineered to End Friendships
Eight games that manufacture betrayal on purpose, including one invented specifically to teach you that landlords are bad, which then made a fortune for a landlord.
7 Game Secrets That Took Years to Find
Seven secrets buried so deep that finding them required thousands of strangers, several years, and in one case dismantling the game file by file.
6 Speedruns That Physically Break the Game
Six runs where the players stopped playing the game and started editing it from the inside, including one that required a lecture on parallel universes.
7 Cozy Games for People Who Are Extremely Tired
Seven games with no fail state, no timers and nothing chasing you, recommended for the specific evening when you have nothing left to give.
The Mechanical Keyboard Rabbit Hole Has No Bottom
A field report from a hobby where people pay hundreds of dollars, wait eighteen months, and then apply lubricant to individual springs with a paintbrush.
9 Failed Gadgets We Still Think About
Nine products that took enormous funding, enormous confidence and enormous stages, then died. Several of them were right, just early.
7 Technologies That Flatly Refuse to Die
Seven technologies declared obsolete years ago that are, by the numbers, still running the world. One of them outsells the format that replaced it.
7 Internet Mysteries That Were Actually Solved
Seven long-running online mysteries that finally got an answer, including a song that took strangers seventeen years to name.
15 Dumbest Things You Can Buy on Amazon Right Now (2026)
The internet's biggest store, curated down to its fifteen most gloriously unnecessary objects. You're welcome, and we're sorry.
Temu Slop: The 20 Worst Products on Temu Right Now (2026)
Twenty real listings from the marketplace where physics is negotiable and every title is a poem. We read them all so you don't have to. You will anyway.
The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Slop
A decade ago we marveled at Deep Dream's dog-faced sky spirals. Sweet summer children that we were.
5 Reasons Why Smart Glasses Will Make You Uncool
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does put a camera on your face and call it fashion.
Latest Zombie Games Round-Up for 2026
The undead genre refuses to die, which is honestly very on-brand. Here's what's shambling onto your platform of choice.
10 Outrageously Unnecessary Kitchen Gadgets
Somewhere between the banana slicer and the Wi-Fi salt dispenser, humanity lost the plot. We investigate.
9 Weirdest Things People Have 3D Printed
Give humanity a machine that can make anything, and humanity will make ten thousand tiny boats.
8 Retro Gaming Handhelds That Are Cooler Than Your Phone
Your phone plays every game ever made and yet here we are, buying tiny plastic bricks with D-pads. There's a reason.
7 Reasons Your Smart Fridge Is Judging You
It knows what you did last midnight. It has photos.
10 Weirdest LEGO Sets of the 2020s
The bricks grew up with us, and now they're paying taxes. A sequel to our 2015 classic.
5 AI Music Acts That Shouldn't Work (but Somehow Do)
In 2015 sock puppets covered Nirvana. In 2026 the puppets don't exist at all. Progress?
The Not-So-Graceful Rise of Humanoid Robots
The future is here, and it's holding the handrail.
11 Great Geek Art Prints for the Home: 2026 Edition
Because nothing says 'cultured geek' like framing your obsessions properly. A long-overdue sequel.
World of Warships PC Game Review
Take command of your very own beautifully crafted warship in this thrilling and challenging naval warfare simulation game, World of Warships.
10 Outrageously Bad Fast Food Offerings
We present here 10 over-the-top fast food items from around the world. Most junk food is packed with grease, calories and conflicting ingredients that are just too much in every unpleasant sense of the word.
The weird and wonderful world of Google’s Deep Dream
The interest in artificial intelligence by the tech giants in Silicon Valley captured the (warped) imagination of the internet in June when Google introduced us to its DeepDream algorithm.
5 Reasons Why the Apple Watch Will Make You Uncool
Here are five perfectly valid reasons why getting an Apple Watch will make you the most uncool person in the world.
7 Simple Design Ideas for Small Rooms
Anyone living in a small space knows what it’s like to wake up to a cluttered mess. Luckily, there are some things you can do to remedy the situation.
10 Weirdest LEGO Sets
Everybody loves LEGO. With colorful bricks, cute minifigures and an amazing variety of sets, what’s not to like? Here’s our list of the 10 weirdest LEGO sets ever.
5 Hilarious Sock Puppet Parody Music Videos
Sock puppets have taken the music world by storm by re-imagining classic songs.
11 Great Geek and Movie Art Prints for the Home
Need some tasteful, sophisticated, decor for your geek home? Look no further.
Latest Zombie Games Round-Up for PCs, Xbox, and PS4
Zombie games are now more popular than ever. We look at some zombie games which are in alpha/beta, out now or coming soon.