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.
· 8 min read
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388 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.
· 8 min read
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.
· 8 min read
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.
· 9 min read
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.
· 9 min read
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.
· 9 min read
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.
· 9 min read
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.
· 9 min read
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.
· 11 min read
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.
· 9 min read
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.
· 9 min read