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The 9-year journey to explore each of EVE Online's 7,805 solar systems
To Boldly Go Katia Sae never wanted to be famous, but you don't go on a galactic tour without making some friends and enemies along the way.
Destiny 2 players spent weeks grinding to end the Dreaming City's curse, but may have made things worse
Power Fantasy How a lore book filled with lies tricked players into no-lifing their way to level 999 for no reward.
The race to save Japan's incredible '80s PC gaming history before it's gone
Origins Square, Enix, and Game Arts: 3 origin stories from Japan's PC boom, from inside the Game Preservation Society's archive.
See 50 glorious years of PC history at the new Computer Museum of America
Photos "That belongs in a museum!"
The parent's guide to PC gaming
Handbook How to raise your kids on PC games, and understand the content and communities they'll be exposed to.
The 5 biggest PC games in China that you'll probably never play
Big in China MMOs, Counter-Strike clones, and a Final Fantasy-esque RPG series—China's games industry is more diverse than you might think.
EVE Online will one day be sentient, its developers told me during a nude hot tub session
Hanging Out My strange journey to the EVE fan convention held in some random player's house.
How old should my kids be before I let them play Fortnite?
Parent Trap We talk to experts and psychologists about what playing Fortnite does to young brains.
We found the worst MMO on Steam
MMNO A journey into the dark underbelly of Steam delivers us to the nightmarish world of Otherland.
For MMO diehards, there's only one conversation: is the genre dying or already dead?
Rez Pls As the genre becomes set in its ways, a few holdouts on r/mmorpg honor the past and predict a bleak future.
Making penises in games: it's hard
Members only Modders and developers tell us the good, bad, and ugly of adding dongs to games.
The untimely death of Warhammer Online, and the long road to resurrect it
Nü War There's no shortage of Warhammer games, but none quite like Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
From 50 Cent: Bulletproof to Oxenfree, indie Sean Krankel has wild stories from making licensed games
G-UNIT The Night School founder tells us his wild licensed games origin story.
Major events in the Warhammer 40,000 timeline
Dark future Actually, it turns out there is more than just war in the grim darkness of the far future.
Save Counter-Strike from disappearing forever in this surreal multiplayer game
de_ad Set inside the last de_dust2 server on Earth, Dustnet explores what it means for multiplayer games to die.
The best knives in PC gaming history
SINISTER STRIKE From Team Fortress backstabs to Michael Myers sneak attacks, these are the knives that make gaming a little more visceral.
