bev! @TonicBH@computerfairi.es

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/

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

Got the last achievement I needed in Quake: Dawn of the Machine, and successfully beat the New Game+ campaign of it. I'm so cool

Now to stop playing anything Quake for a while and play *literally anything else*

watching an old game show and a question about Minnesota Fats came up

I was pumped to know that before the question even finished!!

the big sweep music from supermarket sweep is such a banger tune

https://soundcloud.com/chris-rhyne-2/supermarket-sweeps-shopping-cueremastered

New on the Secret Area: I hate AI vibe coded game projects.

Terrible machine translations! Barely functional recompilations! It's a hot mess, y'all.

Shares and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2026/08/10/ai-vibe-coded-game-projects-suck/

the downfall of Tommy Tallarico will never not be funny to me

was looking to get the recent UZDoom, and the second search result was this fake-ass SEO slop likely made with AI

I love the modern internet

Replaying Doom (2016) and was reminded of the SnapMap mode: scores of community Doom levels with a special set of mapmaking tools.

Hearkening back to the old days, yet only usable in the closed Bethesda ecosystem.

Honestly SnapMap deserves a deeper dive now that it's been a decade...

we need more documentation of people playing games like Doom with a flight stick

because unconventional ways to play games will never not seem neat to me

"download SteelSeries GG for free on the Epic Games Store" are words I should not have goddamn read but just did

New on the Secret Area: It's Soldier of Fortune Inc. and the episode "Alpha Dogs."

A computer nerd for the DOD recreates military combat scenarios in Quake, and suddenly gets more what he bargained for.

Shares and comments appreciated, as always.

https://asecretarea.com/2026/07/18/soldier-of-fortune-inc-alpha-dogs/

I swear people who are vehemently so anti "pineapple on pizza" are such weirdos

pineapple on pizza is fine, good grief

contemplating getting a corset

New on Patreon ($1/month or more): It's Soldier of Fortune Inc. and the episode "Alpha Dogs."

A run-of-the-mill 90s action show where one episode has a computer nerd recreating military combat scenarios in Quake, and gets more what he bargained for.

https://www.patreon.com/youfoundasecretarea/posts/looking-at-of-s-163802634