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Hello and welcome to the 146th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Tobias F.'s screenshot from portal-2 won with 12 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take note of th...

Signup page link What Archipelago is a tool for linking together multiple game randomizers into a single shared play experience. Whenever you collect an item in your game, it could be an item in someone else's game, or a different one of your items. Players will need to find and collect the items...

Hello and welcome to the 145th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Wondercricket's screenshot from clair-obscur-expedition-33 won with 15 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but ...

Ok, that title got long. Umm... This Minecraft question has two dupe votes as a dupe of this question with four dupe votes for this question that's already been marked a dupe of the first question (I think I got all that right). I propose a merge - they're all the same question (as far as I can ...

Our community has long been concerned about how the site's automated deletion scripts (aka Roomba) handle "abandoned" questions, as lamented in the 2023 meta post Is the automatic deletion of "abandoned" questions a good thing? These are typically questions about older or more obscure games that ...

A few days ago, I asked a question on Arqade Meta. It got 2 upvotes and 1 accepted answer, for a total of 22 reputation. Why didn't I get it? My reputation stayed exactly the same before and after I asked the question.

Why does Arqade Meta not have a reputation category in the activity tab? Arqade Meta: Arqade:

Would it be possible to add some light holiday-themed decorations to Arqade during festive seasons? Nothing too flashy — maybe a banner, small icon changes, or something in the header. I get that this would take some dev work, but I think it could make the site feel more lively and welcoming for ...

For those unaware, a common technique in certain circles is to "bridge" chats together: Let's say our main chatroom, The Bridge, and a room on the Arqade discord server were bridged, what would that entail? Messages sent on stack exchange chat would appear in the discord chatroom as if written b...

Hello and welcome to the 144th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Bentley Carpenter's's screenshot from minecraft-java-edition won with 15 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, bu...

Note: this is the same event described in this post, I just wanted to make it a separate question for visibility. What Archipelago is a tool for linking together multiple game randomizers into a single shared play experience. Whenever you collect an item in your game, it could be an item in someo...

A user asked, "What were the first and last games to feature live-acted cut scenes?" This question has two problems: first, it's overly broad by asking for two distinct pieces of information (the first and last games). Second, questions like "What was the last game to…?" invite constantly updated...

Is in Arqade, specific or all Stack Exchange communities, there is a rule which the accepted answer always should be on top of all answers, even if another answer have more score? Here's a example question, where the 1-scored accepted answer showed in top of my 2-scored answer.

(Did I do the title right ;)?) I recently asked this question, wondering if there were any plans to do any old community events again. So, I’m proposing we start up again, first with a gaming event (you know, since we’re Arqade and all). So… yeah. Anyone have a game they’d like to play with other...

Hello and welcome to the 143rd edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Joachim's screenshot from death-stranding won with 13 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take note ...

I know there's a core group of about 5-15 of us who are constantly janitoring questions, but shouldn't we be doing more to encourage others to ask questions (even if they're crap) or help others? Like looking at the new tab today, there's only... What? 8 questions that have been newly asked, and ...

As per my earlier meta post, we will be updating all of our community specific close reasons to follow the new and improved close reason format. We'll be starting with our technical support for modded Minecraft close reason, which currently looks like this: Requests for technical support of modd...

It's time to start revising all of our community specific close reasons to follow the new community specific close reason format. This new format greatly increases the usability of community specific close reasons, giving a far greater level of customization. The new format allows us to give bett...

tl;dr: Game Design & Development split into two close reasons, and we'll be revising all our close reasons soon since we're on the new version of custom close reasons. A few updates regarding our Custom Off-Topic Close reasons Fifth Custom Reason: Thanks to wonderful the Hoid, we now have a fift...

Hello and welcome to the 142nd edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! pinckerman's screenshot from horizon-zero-dawn won with 17 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take ...

I was once again looking at Arqade's site analytics (requires 25,000 reputation) when I noticed three relatively close spikes in activity in November 2011, March 2012, and May 2012. The number of weekly posts jumped 247% from October 30 2011 (491) to November 13 2011 (1,707), 141% from February 2...

I decided to spend my evening improving QOL, because i could not believe my eyes that anyone in their right minds would use a c# app for this purpose. https://themoonisacheese.github.io/SOTW/ Features: no download required automatically fetches the latest SOTW thread and fills in every single in...

Hello and welcome to the 141th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Wondercricket's screenshot from monster-hunter-wilds won with 12 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please...

As you probably know, our standard practice for The Elder Scrolls games (and any game, really) is to use the full game title in the tag, like the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This came out of a couple of past discussions: Expand The Elder Scrolls game tags to inc...

Hello and welcome to the 140th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Alex's screenshot from super-mario-galaxy won with 10 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take note o...

As a member of Gaming Stack Exchange, I've noticed that while some gaming-related questions receive a lot of attention, others tend to go into obscurity—even if they're well-written and interesting. I'm curious: What steps can be taken to ensure questions stand out and encourage active discussio...

I was looking at Arqade's site analytics (requires 25,000 reputation) when I noticed the site had a spike in activity in July 2016. The number of weekly posts went from 776 on June 26th, then increased 155.67% to 1,984 in two weeks (July 10th), before dropping back down to 621 two months later (S...

Hello and welcome to the 139th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! nightsurfer's screenshot from the-last-campfire won with 16 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take...

I’d like to propose a new bronze badge named "Daily Fix," to recognize users who consistently participate in the community over a short period of time. The badge could be awarded for contributing (via questions, answers, or comments) on three consecutive days, encouraging users to stay engaged an...

Minetest has renamed itself to Luanti. See https://blog.luanti.org/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/ Minetest remains to be a game for the Luanti engine. https://content.luanti.org/packages/Luanti/minetest_game/ Let me briefly explain: Luanti (formerly Minetest): Game engine with cubes and L...

Many modern games are released on multiple platforms (PC, Xbox, PlayStation, etc.), but I've noticed that tagging questions about cross-platform games can sometimes be inconsistent. For example: A question about a bug specific to the PC version might not specify the platform in the tags. Anothe...

Many users draft answers offline or risk losing incomplete responses. Introducing an on-site draft-saving feature could improve workflow and ensure smoother contributions. Could we possibly do this?

There are two questions that have been asked recently: How can I improve as a Rocket League Sideswipe player? and How can I improve as a Rocket League player? They're essentially the same question, but for different games. The latter has 3 upvotes and has no close votes. The former has 1 upvote a...

Hello and welcome to the 138th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Tobias F.'s screenshot from tales-of-berseria won with 16 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take no...

The post Can we re-word the Developer Intent close reason to be specifically about the why? top voted answer suggests splitting the Game Design and Development off-topic close reason into two separate close reason. That is currently not possible since we're limited to 4 off-topic reasons, but it ...

This is a follow-up to this question. I think we can agree that the Developer Intent close reason is debated a lot. To quote the reason: Questions about Game Design and Development are off topic. This includes speculative questions about developer intent, with respect to both mechanics and narr...

[save-location] was first used with Where are saves for The Last Nurse Joy located? And I used it for one of my recent questions: How do I figure out what the other game that's taking up my save slots on itch.io are? I have many questions about save locations so I would find it useful, but should...

This is about a situation where an initially off-topic game ID question (because it lacked media) became on-topic after a user other than the OP added the required media through a suggested edit. Here's a breakdown of what happened: A user posted a game ID question, Find game with Yulaw characte...

Hello and welcome to the 137th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Tobias F.'s screenshot from grand-theft-auto-v won with 8 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take n...

I found two questions: what exactly makes the car stealthy? What "stealth abilities" does the Papavero Stealth Edition have? They are essentially the exact same question. However, neither answer seems to be objectively better than the other (at least for me). Which question should be the dupe?

The question Was Janus from Observer inspired by the protagonist of a show called Spicy City? was recently closed as a "speculative question about developer intent, with respect to [...] narrative." One close voter commented that it "is a 'developer intent' question, which are off-topic here beca...

Hello and welcome to the 136th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Clockwork's screenshot from dead-space won with 17 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take note of ...

We have two duplicate questions on using junk in fallout-shelter What's the use of accumulating junk? How do I use junk? The second question is newer (and hence closed as duplicate), but has a better answer and more views. These should be merged in either direction. I flagged this for the moderat...

The Civilization series uses Roman numerals in its official titles (e.g., Civilization VII rather than Civilization 7). Following our community consensus at Should we standardize our tag formatting regarding Arabic vs. Roman numerals? to use official game title spellings in tags whenever possible...

Watch Dogs is a game that came out in 2014. It has 41,361 reviews on Steam. But for some reason, barely any achievements in the game have been earned. One of the achievements, which you get in the first five minutes of playtime, has a 1.4% completion rate. Is it on-topic to ask why?

Hello and welcome to the 135th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! nobody's screenshot from sea-of-stars won with 14 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take note of t...

Hello and welcome to the 134th edition of the Screenshot of the Week! To start with, congratulations to the winner of the previous contest! Joachim's screenshot from the-witcher-3 won with 11 upvotes! To submit a screenshot, simply post it as an answer to this question, but please take note of...

The results of the allowing unregistered users to post again experiment are in! The data was collected over roughly a 2 month period. During that time, there were 81 unregistered users that made a post, for a total of 90 posts by unregistered users. Throughout the period, a total of 642 posts wer...

In this question, OP abbreviated the game name as DBL in the title, didn't expand on what the game was called, and didn't tag the question with the game (though the tag may not have existed). It's possible that DBL refers to Dragon Ball Legends, a fighting game from the Dragon Ball universe on An...