Metal Slug (1996): The Hand-Drawn Arcade Run-and-Gun That Still Holds Up
Some games you remember for their story. Metal Slug you remember for the explosions, and for the fact that every single frame of them was drawn by h…
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Counter-Strike 1.6 Mod Seeks Developers to Overcome Technical Hurdles and Complete Free Content with Premium Plugins
Revitalizing Counter-Strike 1.6: The Anti-Pierista Project’s Bold Vision In the shadows of modern gaming, a dedicated modder is breathing new life i…
Planet Zoo 2 cohabitation chart: which of the 1,221 animal pairs can actually share an enclosure
Planet Zoo 2 cohabitation chart: which of the 1,221 animal pairs can actually share an enclosure Planet Zoo 2 ships 130 species , which is 8,385 pos…
WebRTC Voice Lobby Telemetry: Setting Replay Boundaries for Disconnected Players
Short answer: replay connection and delivery metadata, not recorded voice, and stop replay at the point where a player could mistake an old event fo…
One Credential DNS Plus Mail Setup vs Separate Vendors: 2026 Reconciliation
Short answer: Use one credential for DNS plus mail setup only when the platform owns the zone; with separate vendors, keep an explicit reconciliatio…
Registrar APIs vs DNS Interfaces — Different Jobs in a Tenant Migration
A registrar API and a DNS interface overlap at the word ‘domain’, but they make different promises. For a gaming platform creating one subdomain per…
Phone Verification Debugging for Game Recovery — Correlating Send and Verify Evidence
Short answer: treat a phone verification attempt as one trace that spans send, delivery, and verify, then make every transition auditable before you…
Building a game server tracker: what I learned exposing a public JSON API
A few months ago I shipped L2 Calendar , a tracker for Lineage 2 private server openings. Players kept asking the same thing: "when's the next Inter…
Zapp Chess: 3-Minute Chess Battles From the Middlegame
Zapp Chess skips the part of chess most people don't have time for. Every game starts from a curated middlegame position, so you're straight into ta…
Stop guessing your mana curve: Deterministic math vs LLM intuition
If you've ever played a competitive TCG—Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Lorcana—you know the feeling. You spend three hours tweaking a list. You add…
Documenting a Narrative Horror Game: Lessons from Building a Fan Wiki
I recently built a fan guide for The Skin Stapler, an indie narrative horror game from Tainted Pact Games (creators of Suffer the Night). It launche…
The GTA VI leak isn't really about GTA VI — it's an extortion playbook
Originally published in Spanish on El Rack . Browser translation handles the rest of the site fine if you're into homelab/security content. On Augus…
The storefronts are coming to Linux: Epic, GOG, and the tipping point
For most of Linux gaming's history, the story has been the same: Linux users want to play games, game companies don't care about Linux users, and th…
Gaming AI-Agent KPI Dashboards: Metrics API or Logs, EU GDPR, Node.js Rollback Safety
Short answer: use pre-aggregated metrics for the charts in a gaming AI-agent admin dashboard, keep structured logs for investigation, and make rollb…
NVIDIA 610.57.04 for Linux: the point release actually worth installing
On August 3rd, NVIDIA quietly shipped two Linux driver branches on the same day: the new feature branch 610.57.04 and the stable 595.91.07. The stab…
Building on Base: Sub-Cent Gas for Real-Time Blockchain Games
Introduction One of the biggest challenges in blockchain gaming is balancing decentralization with user experience. High gas fees and slow transacti…
Building a lightning-fast Roblox Wiki using Next.js and Markdown
Most gaming wikis are built on legacy platforms like Fandom, which are notorious for layout shifts, aggressive ad networks, and terrible mobile perf…
Building a Zero-Latency HTML5 Aim Trainer Core
When developing web-based esports utilities, standard React or Next.js state updates can sometimes introduce micro-stutters. To achieve absolute pre…
Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet
Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."
I built a browser-based controller tester with the Gamepad API — and a stick-drift verdict
A quick one I built recently. Stick drift — when an analog stick reports input while it's sitting centred — is the most common way a game controller…
Do You React Faster to Sound or Sight? Test Both in Your Browser
Every article that answers this question just quotes a study and moves on. The interesting part is that you can reproduce the finding yourself in ab…
Not All Games Are Equal: The Real Difference Between a Trap and a Tool
If you game to decompress after work, the choice of game matters more than you think. Not all games decompress you. Some just swap one compulsive lo…
I Spent a Month Testing Decentralized Poker Sites. Here's What Actually Works.
I've been playing online poker since the Full Tilt days. I've seen the shutdowns, the payment processor nightmares, the slow crawl back to legitimac…
Beyond the engine: 10 open source projects shaping how games actually get made
Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets. T…
What If Your Phone Addiction Was Actually Building an Empire? (A Game Dev Story)
What If Your Phone Addiction Was Actually Building an Empire? (A Game Dev Story) We all know that feeling. You pick up your phone. 30 minutes later,…
Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI
Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon. The post Dungeons &…