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
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How the Server Browser Stopped Being the Front Door
Four separate things happened and none of them was about killing community servers. What was lost is discovery, not supply.
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What a Server List Measures, and What It Refuses To
Where the numbers come from, why an unmeasured hour is left empty rather than filled in, and the figures deliberately not published.
· 8 min read
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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
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 · SA-MP
How to Install San Andreas Multiplayer and Join a Server
The commonest way to fail at installing San Andreas Multiplayer is to buy San Andreas. That sounds absurd and it is completely true.
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Guides · Return to Castle Wolfenstein
How to Install Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Join a Server
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was sold as a single-player game about an occult research programme, zombies in a crypt, and a man with a Thompson.
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Guides · Quake II
How to Install Quake II and Join a Server
Buy Quake II, install it, run it, and the first thing you will notice is that it is a 1997 game behaving exactly like a 1997 game.
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Guides · Medal of Honor: Spearhead
How to Install Medal of Honor: Spearhead and Join a Server
Expansion packs are usually extra maps everybody plays for a fortnight. Spearhead is one of the few that ended up replacing the game it was attached to.
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Guides · Medal of Honor
How to Install Medal of Honor and Join a Server
Everybody remembers the beach. Medal of Honor opened the ramp at Omaha in 2002, and most of the men beside you died before you worked out which way to run.
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Guides · Frontlines: Fuel of War
How to Install Frontlines: Fuel of War and Join a Server
You are an infantryman with a rifle and a backpack, and in the backpack is a small remote-controlled car with a rocket bolted to it.
· 8 min read
Guides · Crysis Wars
How to Install Crysis Wars and Join a Server
Two products came in the same box in 2008 and people have been confusing them ever since. Crysis Warhead is a single-player campaign.
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