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Game Updates · Minecraft

Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 1 Adds Server Query IDs

Mojang released Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 1 with server query string handling, connection ID filtering, and Vulkan as the default graphics API.

· 4 min read
Guides

Running a game server on your own hardware

Free machine, real electricity, and an upload speed that is probably your ceiling. Where home hosting is right and where it quietly is not.

· 6 min read
Guides

GunGame Explained

The weapon changes on every kill and the last level is a knife. Twenty years old, still the best warm-up in the game.

· 7 min read
Guides

AWP Servers

One weapon, one long map, and a reload you cannot survive. The oldest single-weapon format in Counter-Strike and why it outlived its own game.

· 7 min read
Guides · Half-Life

The Half-Life Mods That Never Stopped

Natural Selection, Team Fortress Classic and a dozen others still have servers with people on them. Why these survived, and how to get into one.

· 7 min read
Guides · Team Fortress 2

Mann vs Machine on Community Servers

Six strangers, waves of robots, and an upgrade system that punishes buying damage. How missions work, what each class is for, and how to pick a server.

· 7 min read
Guides

A Migration Checklist in the Order Things Break

The world and the configs are the easy part. The cron jobs, firewall rules and secrets are what surface a week later, when the old machine is already gone.

· 7 min read
Guides

Windows or Linux for a Game Server

An honest comparison rather than a recommendation. Where each genuinely wins, and the games where the choice is made for you.

· 7 min read