Guides · Counter-Strike: Source
How to Install Counter-Strike: Source and Join a Server
Installing CS:S, why sv_pure deletes your skins on some servers, and how to reach the surf, bhop and zombie communities that never left.
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522 resultsGuides · Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
How to Install Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Join a Server
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is the Counter-Strike most people bought by accident, sitting next to 1.6 on Steam with a nearly identical name and price.
· 8 min read
Guides · Counter-Strike 1.6
How to Install Counter-Strike 1.6 and Join a Server
Buying the right Counter-Strike, the launch options and network rates nobody mentions, and how to connect to any of the 1,589 servers still running.
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Guides · Core Keeper
How to Install Core Keeper and Join a Server
You wake up underground in a circle of light four tiles wide. Outside it is black, and the ancient core in front of you needs power. Nobody tells you how.
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Guides · Contagion
How to Install Contagion and Join a Server
In most zombie games a single zombie is a tutorial. In Contagion it is a decision: eleven pistol rounds, noise that brings more, a door that does not lock.
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Guides · Conan Exiles
How to Install Conan Exiles and Join a Server
The first person you defeat in Conan Exiles is not someone you kill. You knock him out, tie him up and drag him across the desert behind you on a rope.
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Guides · Call of Duty: World at War
How to Install Call of Duty: World at War and Join a Server
Finish the World at War campaign and you get a bonus map: one room, boarded windows, four players and an endless supply of the dead trying to get in.
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Guides · Call of Duty: United Offensive
How to Install Call of Duty: United Offensive and Join a Server
The most common way to fail at Call of Duty: United Offensive is to install it and find it will not run, because you do not own the game it expands.
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Guides · Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
How to Install Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Join a Server
Modern Warfare 3 shipped on PC without a server browser. You pressed a button, the game found nine people, and one of them hosted on their own connection.
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Guides · Call of Duty: Black Ops (Mac)
How to Install Call of Duty: Black Ops (Mac) and Join a Server
Your friend on Windows is looking at a server list. You are on a Mac, looking at a different one, and neither of you can see the other. Nothing is broken.
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Guides · Call of Duty: Black Ops III
How to Install Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Join a Server
The reason to install Black Ops III on PC in 2026 is rarely the game Treyarch shipped. It is a Zombies map somebody built in their spare time.
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Guides · Call of Duty: Black Ops
How to Install Call of Duty: Black Ops and Join a Server
Call of Duty: Black Ops arrived on PC in 2010 carrying an apology. The year before, Modern Warfare 2 had shipped without dedicated servers.
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Guides · Call of Duty
How to Install Call of Duty and Join a Server
Underneath the first Call of Duty is a Quake engine. That is why it has a console, takes a typed address, and behaves like the arena shooters it came from.
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Guides · Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
How to Install Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Join a Server
Almost every idea in the shooters you play now was in Call of Duty 4: perks, killstreaks, and a levelling curve that hands you a new toy every few matches.
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Guides · Call of Duty 2
How to Install Call of Duty 2 and Join a Server
Somebody throws smoke into the street on Toujane and the round changes. The next thirty seconds go to whoever guessed where the enemy would come out.
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Guides · Brink
How to Install Brink and Join a Server
Brink's defining problem is that you cannot tell who is a person. Bots fill empty slots on the same maps, with the same objectives, and nothing marks them.
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Guides · Beyond the Wire
How to Install Beyond the Wire and Join a Server
A trench is a corridor with a corner every few metres. You cannot see past the next bend, your rifle is nearly as long as you are, and so is his.
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Guides · BeamMP
How to Install BeamMP (BeamNG.drive) and Join a Server
BeamNG.drive is the best crash physics anybody has ever put in a game, and for years the only person who got to watch was you.
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Guides · Battlefield Vietnam
How to Install Battlefield Vietnam and Join a Server
You hear the helicopter before you see it, and the music before either: a sixties rock track that the anti-aircraft gunner below can hear as well as you.
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Guides · Battlefield Hardline
How to Install Battlefield Hardline and Join a Server
Battlefield Hardline had one genuinely original idea: a capture point you score by driving at a hundred miles an hour. The mode is called Hotwire.
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Guides · Battlefield: Bad Company 2
How to Install Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Join a Server
The wall you are hiding behind is temporary. Somebody outside has a rocket launcher, and in ten seconds your corner of the house will be a pile of rubble.
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Guides · Battlefield 4
How to Install Battlefield 4 and Join a Server
Shoot the pillars of the skyscraper in Siege of Shanghai and it comes down across the island, dust blocking every sight line, a flag now buried in rubble.
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Guides · Battlefield 3
How to Install Battlefield 3 and Join a Server
Operation Metro on 64-player Conquest is two escalators, a ticket hall and forty people pushing through a door built for four. It is not good Battlefield.
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Guides · Battlefield 2
How to Install Battlefield 2 and Join a Server
The hard part of Battlefield 2 is not installing it or finding a server. It is getting a copy at all, because no storefront has sold it in a long time.
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