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Finding Servers for Games Everyone Says Are Dead
The servers are still running; the mechanism that used to show them to you is not. Where the players actually are, and how to reach them.
· 7 min read
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Naming a Game Server: What Attracts Players
The name is the only thing most players read. Why tag-stuffed names look untrustworthy, what to put first since browsers truncate, and what not to promise.
· 13 min read
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In-Game Server Browser vs External Server List
How each one gets its information, what a browser does better, what a list does better, and why the player counts they show do not always agree.
· 13 min read
Guides · Zombie Panic! Source
How to Install Zombie Panic! Source and Join a Server
About twenty seconds into a round of Zombie Panic! Source, one of the people next to you stops being a person. The game picks them and tells nobody else.
· 10 min read
Guides · Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
How to Install Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Join a Server
On Goldrush one team escorts a tank up a hill to blow open a bank, then carries two crates of gold down to a truck. It takes twelve minutes when it works.
· 9 min read
Guides · VALORANT
How to Install VALORANT and Join a Server
Most games ask you to install them. VALORANT asks you to restart your computer, and sometimes to turn on two firmware settings before it will run at all.
· 9 min read
Guides · V Rising
How to Install V Rising and Join a Server
The sun will kill you on your first day. Not slowly, not as a warning, and not in the way that games usually mean when they say an environment is hostile.
· 9 min read
Guides · Urban Terror
How to Install Urban Terror and Join a Server
Urban Terror looks like a realism shooter. Tactical vests, iron sights, bleeding wounds, a bandage you have to apply while somebody is trying to kill you.
· 9 min read
Guides · Unturned
How to Install Unturned and Join a Server
People bounce off Unturned at the store page. It is free, made of blocks, and its characters have no faces, so it looks like a weekend clone for children.
· 9 min read
Guides · Unreal Tournament
How to Install Unreal Tournament and Join a Server
There is a weapon in Unreal Tournament you fire twice. The Shock Rifle's secondary is a slow purple orb that does little. Its primary is an instant beam.
· 9 min read
Guides · Unreal Tournament 3
How to Install Unreal Tournament 3 and Join a Server
Install Unreal Tournament 3, open the server browser, and there is a fair chance you will see an empty list. That is not the game failing to find servers.
· 9 min read
Guides · Unreal Tournament 2004
How to Install Unreal Tournament 2004 and Join a Server
Unreal Tournament 2004 is faster than you remember, and considerably faster than you are. The movement is why, and it is worth knowing before you join.
· 9 min read