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Mythbusters: San Andreas
GTA: San Andreas is full of legends, and it's got me chasing ghost ships and urban myths like a schoolkid in 2004

By Jeremy Peel Published

The horror There's a magic in the myths that wikis have taken from us.

The horror
A burger in FF14
How a former NASA employee became the world's foremost author of videogame cookbooks: 'It can't look like you're eating a Pokémon'

By Rick Lane Published

Grilled Wars Victoria Rosenthal has written recipe books based on Fallout, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy 14, and many more.

Grilled Wars
Sami and Erkka in a window
The Dwarf Fortress of survival gaming has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'

By Rick Lane Published

All Finnish, no finish UnReal World has been in development since 1992.

All Finnish, no finish
Codename Eagle
Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series

By Jeremy Peel Published

Roll of the dice The millennium-era reviews make for funny and illuminating reading.

Roll of the dice
I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade

By Joshua Wolens Published

Marx at the arcade VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt is my dev to watch for 2026.

Marx at the arcade
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The bold and futile attempt to fix the disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines

By Rick Lane Published

Alien Resurrection? Can a mod fix this infamously terrible Gearbox shooter?

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Alien Resurrection?
The Wheel of Time FPS
Inside the astonishing development of 1999's The Wheel of Time FPS: 'The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle'

By Rick Lane Published

The Path of Daggers "I never played my games after they were done, but this one I played forever because it was so fun."

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The Path of Daggers
Whatever happened to They Hunger: Lost Souls, the sequel to one of Half-Life's best mods?

By Rick Lane Published

Famished Unravelling the strange death of the once highly-anticipated mod.

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Famished
The untold story of SiN Episodes involves freeway chases, electrical cannons, a nude Elexis, and a whole lotta penises: 'It took Walmart saying they would cancel their order in order to get that removed'

By Rick Lane Published

Confessional Much like a certain fellow Source FPS that we were promised, SiN Episodes never got to the finish line.

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Confessional
The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist's depraved mind

By Rick Lane Published

Male (dis)order. Postal: Brain Damaged succeeds by using the series' scattershot satire as a basis to build great levels.

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Male (dis)order.
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