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Your Mortgage Was Not Ruined by Two Hours of Street Fighter 6
I used to read the autobiography of SKY Li Xiaofeng, the Human Emperor, again and again. One passage I returned to most was a set of questions he asked himself back then, when he was not yet the Human Emperor and the ID Sky had not entered the Warcraft circle. A person who later becomes visible is rarely visible because of one sudden moment of insight. More often, he has already turned the same problem over a thousand times in the dark.
By Jinabout 22 hours ago in Gamers
Absolute Randomness Would Ruin the AAA Game You Think You Want
Picture this. You are in a realistic AAA game, carrying the key item the main quest needs. You have walked a mountain road for three days. You have calculated weather, stamina, and equipment wear. You even begin to enjoy the slow, certain accumulation. Each step brings you closer to the goal. Then a random avalanche falls. It buries the item. There is no warning, no solution, and no prompt telling you that you can shovel the snow. You stand in the snow with nothing but an empty backpack.
By Jina day ago in Gamers
The Jersey Swap That Never Happened Became a War Over Respect
Few expected a jersey swap that never happened to blow up. It did. The facts are small. TES and HLE did not swap jerseys. For a swap to happen, several conditions have to line up: operations staff put it on the schedule before departure, the other club brings extra jerseys, and the inventory includes one with the right player ID. From what has been said, TES may have raised it only after arriving in the US. HLE had brought a fixed number of jerseys and had no extra one with “Zeus” on it. There was a reason. It was not convenient.
By Jin2 days ago in Gamers
The S16 Swiss Draw Gave LPL Two Nightmare Matchups and One Clean Escape
When the draw ended, two matchups stuck first: IG vs GEN and TES vs HLE. BLG, in Pool 2, did not get T1 from Pool 3. When the screen cut to the next group, someone in the training room folded a slip covered in matchup notes and left it folded. AL drew KC, BLG drew MKOI, DK drew G2. The first Swiss round enforces same-region avoidance and seed-pool crossover. Four China-Korea matches were possible. The draw delivered the two biggest ones.
By Jin2 days ago in Gamers
They Bought the Game. Then the Servers Died. Now Players Are Rebuilding It With AI.
On January 12, 2026, EA shut down Anthem’s servers for good. The game had no offline mode. Its world, characters, and content died on the official service. Less than a week later, a community developer named And799 posted a video. Two players had entered the same Anthem lobby on a self-built server emulator.
By Jin4 days ago in Gamers
Crash n the boys street challenge: an unsung video game classic
In the early 90’s there was a video game released on Nintendo with some other video game distributor called Crash and the boys street challenge and I loved that game so much. Given the 80s had just ended. It was like one of those video games made up to look like crash was the rich guy and he had a rich father and they had to compete in an Olympic type games throughout the streets of New York cause that’s where the video game was set And I only made it to the one challenge where they’re swimming in the middle of New York City in the street and it looked like an Olympic size pool but yet it was a great video game nonetheless. Too bad not enough people know about this awesome video game.
By Revista Miko:XCI 5 days ago in Gamers
NBA Jam : a great triumph in sports gaming
Back in the day I had a Sega Genesis Game Gear and it ruled! The one game that I had was “NBA Jam” and it was a great basketball video game. I used to go to the bowling alley when NBA jam video game came out and I would always ask for quarters and change to go to the arcade that was in the bowling alley just to play. It was the first arcade game I ever really played. I loved it. The look and aesthetic of the video game standalone machine was awesome too, as well as the video game that I was playing on it.
By Revista Miko:XCI 5 days ago in Gamers
Nintendo forever!
I want to touch on this briefly didn’t like the Nintendo video game duck hunt. However, whoever did that video game offered an alternative where you didn’t wanna kill innocent ducks, which I didn’t like killing the innocent ducks. You can always did the alternative, which is the ski shooting one instead, so I really didn’t care for the duck hunt video game. And I’m just glad that they offered an alternative to those who didn’t want to do that. Super Mario Brothers and duck hunt actually were a compact video game on one cartridge. They came with the old-school NES Nintendo system, which is pretty cool and I would sit in the basement playing it in particular super Mario Brothers, and in fact, I swear to God, I think I did save the princess For many years. I wondered if I did, but then one day I realize I probably did without knowing it, which is pretty cool in my opinion.
By Revista Miko:XCI 5 days ago in Gamers
Steam Is Flooded With AI Games. Players Are Not Buying Them.
In October 2025, Steam Next Fest showed 2,960 games. Of those, 504 disclosed generative AI use. That is 17%. By June 2026, the number of demos had grown to 4,227. Of those, 1,694 carried an AI tag. That is 40%. In the second quarter of 2026, AI games made up about one-third of new Steam releases. Their estimated share of sales was about 10%. In the fourth quarter of 2025, that sales number hit 27%. A few breakout hits pulled it up.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
AI Got Crushed by Slay the Spire’s Hardest Mode? I Looked at the Data, and the Headline Falls Apart
200 runs. One win. That is the full record of 20 large language models against the final boss on Slay the Spire ’s A20 difficulty. GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and GPT-5.6 Sol trade places atop other leaderboards. Against the Corrupt Heart, their combined win rate was 0.5%.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
Phantom Blade Zero’s 66 Days Mode Is a Death Clock the Developers Can’t Beat
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, a 4Gamer reporter asked Liang Qiwei whether anyone on the development team had cleared the “66 Days” mode without dying once.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
Buy-to-Play Isn’t Always the Better Deal. My Steam Backlog Proved It.
Many players say the same thing: buy-to-play games are a better deal. At first, that sounds obvious. Free-to-play games cost nothing. Buy-to-play games cost money. How could the paid option be cheaper? Then you play a few free games. You see how they work. Free is the entrance. Inside, gacha, skins, battle passes, monthly cards, first-time recharge bonuses, limited bundles, and seasonal quests pull money and time out of you through thin pipes.
By Jin10 days ago in Gamers