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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
Ailin Graef turned a $9.95 Second Life account into virtual real estate worth over a million real dollars. Here is the machine she worked.
The Fallout 76 Canvas Bag - How One Piece of Fabric Unraveled a $200 Launch
Bethesda promised a canvas bag in the $200 Power Armor Edition and shipped nylon instead. Then every fix made it worse.
How Mineplex Killed Itself and Handed Hypixel the Crown
It set a Guinness World Record and pulled tens of thousands of players at once. Then Mojang's EULA gutted its business model, hackers overran it, and Mineplex died in a Discord post days short of its tenth birthday.
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.