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Gaming culture & analysis Videos Recommended on Hacker News (92)
Gaming culture & analysis is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 92 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 226 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Gaming culture: video essays about games, MMORPG culture, World of Warcraft, esports, game communities, Folding Ideas, game criticism, horror games and mods, Let's Plays.
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15 mo on HNIn Search Of A Flat Earth
Folding Ideas
17 HN recommender · 2020–2026
11 mo on HNThis Is Phil Fish
Innuendo Studios
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
9 mo on HNThe Engoodening of No Man's Sky
Internet Historian
9 HN recommender · 2020–2025
8 mo on HNContrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
Folding Ideas
10 HN recommender · 2022–2026
7 mo on HNThis is Financial Advice
Folding Ideas
9 HN recommender · 2023–2026
7 mo on HNWhy Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian
Innuendo Studios
7 HN recommender · 2015–2022
8 mo on HNRoblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
People Make Games
9 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HNManufactured Discontent and Fortnite
Folding Ideas
6 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HNThe Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
Folding Ideas
6 HN recommender · 2023–2025
6 mo on HNHow Valve is Profiting from Steam's Back-Door Casinos
People Make Games
5 HN recommender · 2022–2025
6 mo on HNRobocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
GDC Festival of Gaming
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNMyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod
Power Pak
4 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNHow lucky is too lucky?: The Minecraft Speedrunning Dream Controversy Explained
Stand-up Maths
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNFree to Play
Valve
5 HN recommender · 2014–2022
5 mo on HN"Games as a service" is fraud.
Accursed Farms
5 HN recommender · 2019–2024
4 mo on HNCities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 1: Parking
donoteat01
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
4 mo on HNRoss's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex
Accursed Farms
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNThe First Video Game
Ahoy
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNRetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island
Ahoy
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
4 mo on HNHow Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
3 HN recommender · 2018–2026
3 mo on HNSpace Station 13 Review | AHELP: Clown Grief Pls Ban He™
SsethTzeentach
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HNWhat Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
Razbuten
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HNGame Critics
videogamedunkey
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HNTUN: Un-Ruining the MMO
MrBtongue
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNThe Dark Side of Counter-Strike 2
Coffeezilla
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNAlpha Centauri Quotes: Intro and Tech's 0-24
uvwar
3 HN recommender · 2016–2020
3 mo on HNChristopher Tin - Baba Yetu (Official Video) feat. Soweto Gospel Choir
Christopher Tin
3 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNColonel JD AI Codec Conversation MGS2 HD
Louie V
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNGambling and the desire machine | Pay to Win
Jimmy McGee
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNRoss's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution
Accursed Farms
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNRaiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)
CYBERGEM
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNSequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X
Egoraptor
3 HN recommender · 2012–2020
3 mo on HNWhy It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft
Folding Ideas
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNExclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Game Built Around Ray Tracing
Digital Foundry
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNHauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNWhat's It Really like Working at Valve?
People Make Games
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024