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The oddities // October 26, 2026 Takeshi's Challenge: Takeshi Kitano's Impossible NES Game Takeshi Kitano's 1986 Famicom game calls itself practically impossible on the box. To reach the treasure you divorce your wife and quit your job. Read the story Hardware & tech // October 25, 2026 WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color: Yokoi's Last Handheld Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi died in 1997, before his last handheld went on sale. Bandai's WonderSwan sold about 3.5 million units, all in Japan. Read the story Indie & upcoming // October 24, 2026 Half-Life HLX: every leak so far, and what Valve has said Every Half-Life HLX leak in date order, from hidden Valve groups to a composer's remark on stage, and what Valve has and has not confirmed. Read the story Gaming history // October 24, 2026 Creatures 1996 game: how Norns learn and breed Creatures (1996) gave its Norns a mutating genome and a 952-neuron brain that learns. A 1998 paper on it by Steve Grand and Dave Cliff has been cited more than 70 times. Read the story Mods & total conversions // October 24, 2026 Sonic Mania: the game Sega handed to its fan developers Sega built Sonic Mania on a fan's engine with the team behind the fan remake Sonic 2 HD. What Plus added, and why there is no Mania 2. Read the story Gaming history // October 23, 2026 OnLive cloud gaming service and why it shut down How OnLive streamed games in 2010, why it ran out of money by 2012, and how Sony ended up with its patents in 2015. Read the story The oddities // October 23, 2026 Gizmondo console: why it failed and the Ferrari crash The Gizmondo sold fewer than 25,000 consoles and left about $300 million in debt. A director then crashed a Ferrari Enzo at 162 mph. Read the story Gaming history // October 23, 2026 Dragon Age: Origins got its name from a random generator BioWare made Dragon Age: Origins from 2002 to 2009. A random name generator picked its title, and the writers had to add dragons to a game that had none. Read the story Mods & total conversions // October 23, 2026 Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss factions and the 1.8 update A volunteer crew has added three towns to the 1999 Heroes 3 since 2011. The latest, Bulwark, came in the 1.8 update. The mod is free on Steam. Read the story Gaming history // October 22, 2026 Habitat video game: Lucasfilm's 1986 world and NeoHabitat Lucasfilm's Commodore 64 world gave 'avatar' its online meaning and closed in 1988. NeoHabitat runs it again in a browser. Read the story Gaming history // October 22, 2026 GoldenEye 007 remastered for Xbox 360: Rare's Project Bean Rare remade GoldenEye 007 for Xbox 360 as Project Bean. Licensing killed it in 2008. A near-final build leaked in 2021. Read the story Mods & total conversions // October 21, 2026 Total War: Warhammer III and Shogun 2 get third-person mods Derpy's Third-Person Battles lets you fight as one soldier in Total War: Warhammer III. The Shogun 2 version is only a Reddit video. Read the story Gaming history // October 21, 2026 Alone in the Dark: the 1992 original behind Resident Evil Shinji Mikami said that without Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil would probably have become a first-person shooter. It still sells on GOG and Steam. Read the story Gaming history // October 21, 2026 Atari E.T. landfill, what was really buried in New Mexico In 1983 Atari buried unsold cartridges in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The man who ran it said 728,000. A 2014 dig recovered about 1,300. Read the story The oddities // October 21, 2026 Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, the worst-reviewed game ever made GameSpot scored Big Rigs 1 out of 10 and Metacritic has it at 6 out of 100. The story of who made it and why it shipped unfinished, up to its 2025 Steam return. Read the story Retro // October 21, 2026 No One Lives Forever, the 2000 shooter not on Steam or GOG The Operative: No One Lives Forever scored 91 on Metacritic, and no digital store sells it. Who may own the rights, and how people play it on PC today. Read the story The oddities // October 20, 2026 Why Superman 64 Is So Bad, From the People Who Made It Superman 64's technical director called it "pretty much a disaster from start to finish." Titus co-founder Eric Caen blames Warner's rules and the N64's limits. Read the story Retro // October 20, 2026 Eternal Darkness on GameCube: history and where to play Silicon Knights began Eternal Darkness on the N64 and shipped it on GameCube in 2002. It has never been re-released and plays only on GameCube or a launch Wii. Read the story Retro // October 19, 2026 Shenmue Dreamcast: what it cost and how to play it Shenmue cost Sega $47 million by Yu Suzuki's own count and sold 1.2 million on Dreamcast. Here is how it was made and where to play it now. Read the story The oddities // October 19, 2026 Nokia N-Gage: why the taco phone failed The N-Gage cost $299 to the Game Boy Advance's $99.99. Nokia's 400,000 "sales" were phones shipped to stores. Why the taco phone failed in 2003. Read the story Gaming history // October 18, 2026 Vampire: Bloodlines history and how to play it today Vampire: Bloodlines sold 72,000 copies in 2004 and Troika closed in February 2005. How it was made, and how to play it today with the Unofficial Patch. Read the story Gaming history // October 18, 2026 Donkey Kong's 1981 flyer art and the arcade flyer archive Leslie Cabarga painted the 1981 Donkey Kong arcade flyer. A Nintendo manager saved the original from a dumpster, and the printed flyer is free to see online. Read the story Gaming history // October 18, 2026 Shogun 2 Complete Edition removed: what an ex-CA dev says SEGA pulled Shogun 2 Complete Edition two days after its October 13 launch. Creative Assembly says it was made outside the studio and skipped QA. Read the story Gaming history // October 17, 2026 Assassin's Creed Destiny canceled gameplay from Qin China Leaked portfolio footage shows Assassin's Creed Destiny, a console game set in Qin-dynasty China that TiMi and Ubisoft reportedly canceled. Read the story The oddities // October 17, 2026 Virtuality arcade VR: the 1000CS pod and Dactyl Nightmare What it took to play four-player VR in a 1991 arcade: an Amiga 3000 in a pod, £4 for three minutes, and the museum where one still runs. Read the story Gaming history // October 15, 2026 Axel Gembe and the Half-Life 2 leak of 2003 In 2003 a 20-year-old in Germany got into Valve's network through a blank password and leaked Half-Life 2. The FBI then tried to lure him to Seattle. Read the story Gaming history // October 14, 2026 Halo began as an RTS: how Armor became Combat Evolved In 1997 Halo was a Myth-engine strategy game called Armor. By early 1999 it was a third-person shooter, and Microsoft's buyout made it first person. Read the story Gaming history // October 13, 2026 Doom shareware WAD: the free episode id sold to pirates DOOM1.WAD held Doom's free first episode and locked out custom levels. How id earned money by giving it away, down to selling boxes to Taiwan's pirates. Read the story Gaming history // October 13, 2026 Diablo II Secret Cow Level: the D2R portal and the 1996 hoax The steps to open the Secret Cow Level in Diablo II and D2R. The level started as a 1996 rumor that Blizzard joked about for three years before building it. Read the story The oddities // October 12, 2026 Desert Bus game: why it never shipped and how to play Desert Bus, the eight-hour Sega CD bus ride, was finished in 1995 and never sold after Absolute Entertainment closed. How to play it today, free on Steam. Read the story Retro // October 12, 2026 Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines sold 100 times its forecast Pyro Studios in Madrid expected 15,000 sales of Commandos. By May 2000 the game and its expansion had passed 1.5 million. Read the story The oddities // October 11, 2026 Jurassic Park Trespasser: why the 1998 game failed Jurassic Park Trespasser shipped a year early for an AMD deal and sold about 50,000 copies, yet its physics fed Half-Life 2. How it failed, how to play it now. Read the story Gaming history // October 10, 2026 Elite 1984: the 22 KB game behind Elite Dangerous Elite (1984) built 2,048 planets from a seed number in 22 KB on a BBC Micro. Thirty years later Frontier built Elite Dangerous on the same idea. Read the story The oddities // October 10, 2026 Seaman on Sega Dreamcast and how the talking fish game works Seaman shipped with a Dreamcast microphone and a fish wearing its creator's face. How the talking worked, and what a copy costs to play today. Read the story Mods & total conversions // October 9, 2026 Half-Life 2 RTX release date and how to play the demo Half-Life 2 RTX has no release date as of October 2026. The free Steam demo covers Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt and needs Half-Life 2. Read the story The oddities // October 9, 2026 Hypnospace Outlaw sequel: why Dreamsettler was canceled Dreamsettler, the Hypnospace Outlaw sequel set between 2003 and 2005, was canceled in June 2025 when the money ran out, and creator Jay Tholen took the blame. Read the story Mods & total conversions // October 8, 2026 Skywind release date in 2026, and how Skyblivion compares Skywind still has no release date after its May 2026 update. Skyblivion, the Oblivion remake on the same engine, is aiming for 2026. Read the story Mods & total conversions // October 8, 2026 Fallout: London, the free Fallout 4 mod built by volunteers Almost 100 unpaid modders spent five years on Fallout: London. It is free if you own Fallout 4 and every DLC, and it needs the game's pre-next-gen version. Read the story

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Every reel I have made, ranked by views. Filter by shelf, search a game, or sort by date. A reel with an article opens here; the rest open on YouTube.

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Big Rigs

988KThe oddities

Shadows of Doubt

762KIndie & upcoming

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Fallout: London

606KMods & total conversions

Warband mods

332KMods & total conversions

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Creatures

224KRetro

Sid Meier's Pirates!

175KRetro

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Skywind

170KMods & total conversions

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No One Lives Forever

157KRetro

Creative Assembly apologies

143KGaming history

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Superman 64

91KThe oddities

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Shogun 2 ex-CA AMA

80KGaming history

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Elite

77KRetro

5 dark fantasy games

64KIndie & upcoming

Arx Fatalis

53KRetro

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Dragon Age: Origins

50KGaming history

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Commandos

49KRetro

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Total War 3rd person

48KMods & total conversions

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Doom shareware

37KGaming history

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Vampire: Bloodlines

32KRetro

Mario's moustache

30KHardware & tech

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Trespasser

29KRetro

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Shenmue

26KRetro

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Desert Bus

25KThe oddities

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The Half-Life 2 hack

13KGaming history

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Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss

12KMods & total conversions

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Half-Life HLX

11KGaming history

Cruelty Squad

11KThe oddities

Claw

11KRetro

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Atari E.T. landfill

10KGaming history

3 loved games that flopped

10KRetro

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Eternal Darkness

10KRetro

Chaos Theory

10KRetro

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WonderSwan

9KHardware & tech

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Hypnospace Outlaw

8KIndie & upcoming

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Halo as an RTS

8KGaming history

LSD: Dream Emulator

8KThe oddities

Black & White 2

8KRetro

Robin Hood

8KRetro

Chronicles of Myrtana

7KMods & total conversions

Noita

7KIndie & upcoming

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GoldenEye XBLA remaster

7KRetro

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Virtuality VR pods

7KHardware & tech

Empire Earth II

7KRetro

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Assassin's Creed Destiny

6KGaming history

Garfield Kart

6KThe oddities

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Nokia N-Gage

6KHardware & tech

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Diablo II Cow Level

6KGaming history

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Seaman

6KThe oddities

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Habitat

6KRetro

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Half-Life 2 RTX

6KMods & total conversions

Lunacid

5KIndie & upcoming

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Alone in the Dark

5KRetro

Apotheon

5KIndie & upcoming

Evil Genius

5KRetro

Sega Activator

5KHardware & tech

F.E.A.R.

5KRetro

Sega Saturn surprise launch

4KGaming history

Chex Quest

4KThe oddities

Newstower

4KIndie & upcoming

Is This Seat Taken?

4KIndie & upcoming

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OnLive

4KGaming history

Ghost Master

4KRetro

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Gizmondo

4KHardware & tech

Gloomwood

4KIndie & upcoming

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Donkey Kong flyer art

4KGaming history

Kind Words 2

4KIndie & upcoming

A Little to the Left

4KIndie & upcoming

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Sonic Mania

2KMods & total conversions

Pentiment

2KIndie & upcoming

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

653Retro

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Takeshi's Challenge

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