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New on the Secret Area: "Halo with chips" has been found.

A dumb back of the box quote from Maxim magazine promoting a poker video game had become a small meme. I wanted to find out where it came from.

Likes, shares and comments are really appreciated. https://asecretarea.com/2025/02/21/halo-with-chips-found/

Hey, remember when I was talking about wanting a cat fursona?

Well, thanks to a picrew, and a friend who was willing to help, it's now a reality.

Say hi to Tonya! She's soft, cuddly, and friendly!

(art by Megahand6 on birdsite)

ps visit my website it has cool dumb video game things

I made a new post yesterday to cover devolver digital's silly advergame

http://asecretarea.com

reinstalled Quake 3 to check out some mods and maps, and as I kept playing, I came to a realization

I think I'm more an Unreal Tournament kind of gal

cool stuff *like* ZDoom, etc etc

keep accidentally forgetting to put words in sometimes ​

New Secret Area post: It's RTC-3057 for Doom.

When the Doom source code lead to cool stuff ZDoom, people were doing some pretty damn wild things, including this mod that echoed elements of Doom 3.

Likes, shares, and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2025/05/10/rtc-3057-doom/

Was looking through my old Giant Bomb blogs to see if I needed to preserve anything, and forgot that I wrote about an esports tournament involving Turtle Rock's Evolve and the Neill Blomkamp film CHAPPiE.

If that isn't 2015 as hell, I don't know what is

Remember that 2000s era when orchestral arrangements of classic video game music was in vogue?

I know it's still a thing now but this seemed to be a common trend back then, kind of as a way to make video games seem more "legitimate," I guess?

Might be worth exploring more

Somehow over the years I grabbed an album called "The Greatest Video Game Music."

It's a smattering of the hits (Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy) and a few questionable additions (Advent Rising? GTA4? Splinter Cell: Conviction??) but it's an alright orchestral arrangement of video game songs

New on the ol' Secret Area Patreon: It's RTC-3057 for Doom.

Doom mods are one of my favorite things to write about. So let's look into one that was taking use of the then-new ZDoom in 2003.

Available now at $1 or more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rtc-3057-for-of-128377951

Dr. Weird: Gentlemen, behold!

Korn!

(the tall garage door opens. jonathan davis appears, and is randomly scat-singing.)

Been playing a few 2000s Doom mods, back when people started learning how to script in stuff like ZDoom. It's pretty amazing stuff even now

A shame some of these are kinda broken now in more recent GZDoom versions, so I have to keep a copy of ZDoom 2.8.1 handy just for compatibility's sake