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The 10 Best Management Sim Games to Buy
Sushi bars, haunted museums, prisons, zoos, whole cities and a factory the size of a planet. Ten management games that keep pulling you back for one more day, what each one asks of you, and what it costs in your country right now.
The 10 Best Linear Adventure Games to Buy
No map full of icons, no live-service grind. These ten adventures tell one story from start to finish, and every one of them is on PC. Here's what each does best, where each falls short, and what it costs in your country right now.
The Man Who Tried to Own the Word Edge
Tim Langdell spent two decades sending letters to anyone who put "Edge" on a game, and one magazine paid him for twelve years. In 2010 a federal judge went through his trademark filings and found one that appeared to have been doctored in three material ways.
Nobody Owned Tetris, and Four Companies Sold It Anyway
Henk Rogers flew to Moscow on a tourist visa in 1989 to find out who actually held the Tetris paperwork, after the game had been licensed across three continents by people who had no right to license it.
A Stolen Wolf Became the Rarest Gun in Counter-Strike
In 2014 an artist opened Steam and found his wolf painting on a rifle. Valve's fix for the theft accidentally minted the only Contraband skin in CS history.
Two YouTubers Filmed Themselves Winning on a Site They Secretly Owned
Trevor Martin and Thomas Cassell ran jackpot after jackpot on CSGO Lotto and played it as luck. They ran the company. The fallout became the FTC's first case against individual influencers.
How $9.95 Became Second Life's First Million-Dollar Fortune
Over about two and a half years, Ailin Graef bought and subdivided enough Second Life land to turn a $9.95 account into virtual real estate worth over a million real dollars.
The Fallout 76 Canvas Bag: How One Piece of Fabric Unraveled a $200 Launch
Roughly $5 in Atoms, spendable only inside Fallout 76, was Bethesda's first apology to people who paid $200 for a Power Armor Edition that promised a canvas bag and shipped a nylon one.
How Mineplex Killed Itself and Handed Hypixel the Crown
Mineplex died in a Discord post in May 2023, days short of its tenth birthday, after Mojang's 2014 EULA gutted its business model and hackers overran its servers. In 2015 it had set a Guinness World Record with 34,434 players online at once.
The Atari Record That Didn't Exist in the Code
For 35 years, Todd Rogers' 5.51-second Dragster time carried a Guinness award for the longest-standing record in gaming. Then an engineer read the game's assembly and found it was 0.06 seconds short of possible.