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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.