No joke, this year’s CoD is the 21st game in the series. (Main series, that is. I don’t even want to know what the grand total including spinoffs/handheld/mobile is.)

Martin Hollis, but Doak was co-designer. https://www.mobygames.com/game/4034/perfect-dark/credits/n64/

(Also it’s crazy how short credits were back then. I left a Ubisoft credit scroll going a few years ago and I swear it took 45 minutes.)

The site seems to be focused on tabletop and board games, so I guess they assumed their target audience already knew what it meant.

There are several easter eggs that still work. A few of my favorites:

• Search roll a die and it’ll bring up a special box with a virtual die in it.
• Search askew to tilt the page.
• Search either do a barrel roll or z or r twice to make the page spin.
• Search recursion and it suggests you search “recursion” instead.
• Search anagram and it suggests “nag a ram”.
• Go to the Google frontpage, type zerg rush there, and hit “I’m Feeling Lucky” for a swarm to destroy the search results.

Are you sure about Giant Bomb? AFAIK Jess, Jason, and Bailey were all laid off by Fandom. The GB crew even spoke about being caught off-guard both times, and how bad they thought those layoff decisions were.

No one said Starship Troopers yet? This is the trailer I remember most back then. Just a lighthearted fun action movie about blasting aliens, right?

They are. I’ve seen “sere” show up in crosswords quite a bit. I didn’t think “fungiform” was rare, but Firefox’s spellcheck doesn’t seem to recognize it. “Resplendent” just sounds gorgeous. And “slugabed” is new to me, but I love it.

I believe the game showed pronouns on the character select screen. That’s all it takes to make certain people mad, unfortunately.

Poetry.

Smart Pipe?

Check the URL. The site clearly changed the headline after OP posted.

The term you’re looking for is National Emergency Library.

Select

Ah, a co-op install.

Wait, someone actually made Smart Pipe?