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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Not-So-Graceful Rise of Humanoid Robots
The future is here, and it's holding the handrail.
11 Great Geek and Movie Art Prints for the Home
Need some tasteful, sophisticated, decor for your geek home? Look no further.