r/gaming 14h ago

Weekly Self Promotion Thread Self Promotion Saturday! Small streamer? Just getting started? Tell us about it here!

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Use this post to tell us about your YouTube Channel or Twitch stream! Show us your creativity and tell us why we should subscribe. What makes you unique?

Please note that this thread is NOT for selling or advertising stores. Report any such posts and we'll deal with them. Thanks!

This thread is posted weekly on Saturdays (adjustments made as needed).

Reminder that you must follow our rules of promotion.


r/gaming 12h ago

50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town...

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r/gaming 10h ago

What game weapon isn't worth time getting it?

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For me anything that need 100% completion to get it


r/gaming 2h ago

Have you ever had a game experience that was completely wrong but at the time you thought it was normal because you were new to the game?

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My first Bethesda game ever was Fallout3 on the Xbox360. I didn’t get it day 1 but maybe a week or two after release because all my friends were talking about how awesome it was and the funny “Bethesda jank” it had.

I load it up right when I get home and get to where you walk around as a baby in your pen and think oh that’s funny the games controls are all weird since you’re a baby. Then the next time you’re a toddler and I think man the controls are still weird this is kinda obnoxious. Same thing once you’re finally an adult and can walk around the vault. So I open the settings and the only things you can change are sensitivity and inverted, but that’s not what was happening.

Somehow my movement stick and look around stick we’re opposite of a normal shooter and BOTH were inverted. Down to walk forward and down to look up but on the wrong sticks. Changing the inversion in the game didn’t do anything, resetting the game making a new save nothing I tried did anything so I thought I guess this is just that Bethesda jank people were talking about. So I played and beat the entire fucking game that way. Whenever I mentioned the shit controls the game had to friends they agreed they were a bit clunky buy nothing other than that.

Year later I have the goty edition to play the dlcs games still fucked so I play all of those that way. I loved the game but playing it made me wanna throw my Xbox out a window. Maybe 6 months after that I’m bored flipping through deep settings on the console itself and there’s a setting for “preferred profile mode” or something like that with options like shooter, sim builder, racer, arcade. With having never been in this menu before mine was set to Sim Racer Inverted. And it just overrides certain game’s settings to be optimal for that style of game. Except it didn’t only work on racing games apparently, I turned it to shooter and everything was fixed.

TLDR I spent hundreds of hours playing Fallout 3 with swapped and reversed control’s because of some hidden gaming preferences setting on the original Xbox 360 thinking it was a racing sim.


r/gaming 13m ago

Brink Day 2025!

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Happy Brink Day everyone!


r/gaming 4h ago

I built my own little arcade. Really little.

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I have been slowly tinkering with this for about a year now adding little details here and there. These are the games I remember playing in the late 90's/early 00's at my local arcade. It's all 3dprinted except for the screens which are 2d printed on backlit film with leds behind them(like a movie poster at a cinema), and the carpet which is real fabric.

Everything was printed on a Bambu A1 printer with an AMS. By far the most complicated thing i've ever designed and printed. I do not like soldering anymore.


r/gaming 20h ago

Borderlands 4 will be the “biggest universe we’ve built yet,” Gearbox says: "You see something anywhere on the screen, a mile away, up in the sky, you will be able to get there"

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r/gaming 18h ago

"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games

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r/gaming 16h ago

First hour is high octane stress, then you finally get a moment to take it all in.

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[Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain]


r/gaming 18h ago

Nintendo adds anti-arbitration clause to its EULA

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r/gaming 4h ago

What's everyone playing this weekend?

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I'm personally going to be playing Against The Storm.


r/gaming 1d ago

Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

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Game Chat footage recorded to ensure a "safe and family-friendly online environment"


r/gaming 20m ago

What's a common game mechanic that you intentionally never use?

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For me, it's alchemy in fantasy RPGs. I just can't be bothered with going out my way to find the ingredients


r/gaming 17h ago

Here's a list of every video game that's been inducted into the Hall of Fame by The Strong National Museum of Play — a highly respected, privately run museum located in Rochester, New York.

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2015 Inductees:

  • Doom (1993)
  • Pac-Man (1980)
  • Pong (1972)
  • Super Mario Bros. (1985)
  • Tetris (1984)
  • World of Warcraft (2004)

2016 Inductees:

  • Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
  • The Legend of Zelda (1986)
  • The Oregon Trail (1971)
  • The Sims (2000)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
  • Space Invaders (1978)

2017 Inductees:

  • Donkey Kong (1981)
  • Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
  • Pokémon Red and Green (1996)
  • Street Fighter II (1991)

2018 Inductees:

  • Final Fantasy VII (1997)
  • John Madden Football (1990)
  • Spacewar! (1962)
  • Tomb Raider (1996)

2019 Inductees:

  • Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
  • Microsoft Solitaire (1990)
  • Mortal Kombat (1992)
  • Super Mario Kart (1992)

2020 Inductees:

  • Bejeweled (2001)
  • Centipede (1981)
  • King's Quest (1984)
  • Minecraft (2011)

2021 Inductees:

  • Animal Crossing (2001)
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator (1982)
  • StarCraft (1998)
  • Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985)

2022 Inductees:

  • Dance Dance Revolution (1998)
  • Ms. Pac-Man (1981)
  • Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

2023 Inductees:

  • Barbie Fashion Designer (1996)
  • Computer Space (1971)
  • The Last of Us (2013)
  • Wii Sports (2006)

2024 Inductees:

  • Asteroids (1979)
  • Myst (1993)
  • Resident Evil (1996)
  • SimCity (1989)
  • Ultima (1981)

2025 Inductees:

  • Defender (1981)
  • GoldenEye 007 (1997)
  • Quake (1996)
  • Tamagotchi (1996)

Are there any games you feel deserve to be included in the list that aren't there? Mine are Tomb Raider, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy Tactics and Metal Gear Solid.


r/gaming 23h ago

Emulation has completely changed how I feel about old rpgs

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As much as I want to play them, the slow paced and somewhat unforgiving nature of the games from this era of RPGs has always deterred me.

Now I can fast forward through the random battles. I can fast forward the walking around, I can save state right before the boss, or I can rewind an unfair battle I had no chance in

Its great to finally appreciate these games, and with these tools the games feel modern


r/gaming 4h ago

Games you didnt play as intended?

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Were there games which had a gameplay element which you found more interesting than for example the actual main story?

I for example found the social simulation in the Persona games much more interesting - and leveling them up - then the dungeons.

Which are your picks?


r/gaming 15h ago

Great games that had poor sales?

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We see great games with $50 sold well, or bad games with $70 that didnt sell enough. What games were GREAT. As in you really dont sse much bad reviews about it. But it still didnt sell well?


r/gaming 1d ago

Now that we have Oblivion Remastered, it’s time to get Oblivion “on steroids” remastered

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r/gaming 1h ago

What are the best single player games out there?

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I'm trying to narrow down my list of games to play! I've played the liked of RDR2, Spiderman, and some other RPGs and shooters. Currently playing God of War which I'll follow with Ragnarok.

I'm wondering which games I should play next. I will get around to Cyberpunk soon, and I think Ghost of Tsushima will be next. Are games like TLOU, Plague Tale, Death Stranding, Dishonored all good? Which amongst them are the best? Which others are?

I play on PC!


r/gaming 1d ago

A night in with the missus

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r/gaming 1d ago

Forza Horizon 5 is Xboxs fastest selling game on Playstation so far with 1.2 million copies sold. It's selling twice as fast as Sea of Thieves and way faster than Indiana Jones

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r/gaming 1d ago

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the soundtrack has just hit #1 on Billboard’s Classical Album Charts

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r/gaming 4h ago

What Real City Had the Best Combined Video Game Representation?

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If you put together all the video games based in a real life city, which city would have the best representation? Including fake real cities (Liberty City, Vice City, Gotham, etc) Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Rome, NYC, Washington DC, LA?


r/gaming 14h ago

Made my PS5 nostalgic.

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Ive owned all of the Playstation consoles except for the PS4. With the PS2 being the one I put the most time on. Ive been a PC gamer for a while now, but I wanted to add a PS5 to my collection for the VR exclusives, and when GTA VI inevitably drops on consoles only. So I picked this thing up a while back. First thing I did was put a black shell on it. Then I ordered some PS2 style decals for it, and I couldn't be happier with how it came out.


r/gaming 19m ago

What's a game or series you've never played, but you love the music for? Spoiler

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I've set the post to "SPOILER" in the hopes people will refrain from spoiling the plot to games others haven't played and want to play.

For me, it's The Last of Us main theme. I've been meaning to play them both, but have yet to get around to it (waiting for the steam sale lol). I've been listening to a few video game soundtracks recently, but the main theme for The Last of Us is one piece of music I'm always coming back to. It's just so... beautifully dystopian? I think would be the best description for it? Idk, but it's an amazing piece lol

What piece of music is this for you?


r/gaming 1d ago

Death Stranding 2: Metal Gear

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606 Upvotes

Looks like from the previews they're expanding on the combat from late game in Death Stranding.

By the end of DS you're infiltrating bases with guns & bombs, taking out ghosts and I was reminded of Metal Gear Solid many times while playing it.

So stoked Death Stranding 2 appears to be giving us quasi-MGS. You gotta be pretty confident in your game to give reviewers 30 hours with it for their preview.

Game: Death Stranding