Some of my most visited gaming sites, besides gog.com and youtube.com:

1. https://www.mobygames.com/
- To find more information about certain games and game series.

2. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ (www.gamefaqs.com also works)
- To find walkthroughs and in-depth FAQs for various games, mainly RPGs. E.g. if I want to find a character or party creation guide for a RPG, I go here first.

3. https://www.gamebanshee.com/
- Specifically for Infinity Engine RPG walkthroughs, e.g. Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series. I'm sure there's lots more there.

4. https://sorcerers.net/
- The same reason as above.

5. https://www.patches-scrolls.de/
- For updates and patches specifically for retail (CD/DVD) games. Naturally this is less and less needed if also your older games are increasingly from GOG.com (or other stores), but I hope this "retail game update site" still days online for a long time. If not, I'd hope to be able to download and archive all their retail game updates, if needed. I wonder how many terabytes that would be?

It would be a real shame if they went offline and all those collected and archived game updates would be gone...

always a service you can shutdown
http://www.blackviper.com/windows-services/

explanatory to above.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4499-start-stop-disable-services-windows-10-a.html

https://duckduckgo.com/
because Google is bad.

https://www.nexusmods.com
you should never let steam take away the modding market

https://auroraoss.com
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/
because Google again they try to stick there fingers in all the places

Better yet, why bother having to shut down Windows services that'll just reactivate themselves anyway, when you could just leave the ecosystem entirely?

I would add

https://meetup.com/

I'm still attending LAN events and local FGC stuff and I find a lot of computer gaming events on meetup.

Typo, thanks... fixed.

This is why I stopped contributing. And the abuse I got from their management didn't help. A shame to see once-excellent wikis go down the drain.

Yeah, back when I was helping moderate the FrackinUniverse Starbound mod, the headache we encountered with the Fandom staff was enough that we just jumped to Miraheze; the same host as the Creatures Wiki, All the Tropes and a few others.

https://archive.org/] gaming

http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?list.2] manuals

https://ashesofcreation.com/] next best MMO

beforeiplay

Play Old PC Games

For getting old, non-DOS games to run:

DxWnd:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/

dgVoodoo:
http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

nGlide:
https://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

https://isthereanydeal.com/ - shows game deals and historic sales.


I would add cheatengine but I haven't linked it because sometimes it's bundled with adware you have to keep an eye out for and people will need to remember to shut ti down before playing multiplayers games with anticheat.

The reason for mentioning is that it can help smooth over quality issues with games. For example a game character might walk far to slow wasting your precious time in real life so you could use the program to speed up the game or slow it down.

Jimmy strikes again gobbling up peoples work for profit.

gamesindustry.biz

I like the site because it mentions lots of gaming news the mainstream media sites don't cover. Bigger mainstream sites also tend to just copy each others' articles and news-topics, so you get the same news regardles of which of them you visit.

http://www.scummvm.org


I suppose that's not 100% "every gamer" thing, but because ScummVM can run thousands of games on almost any modern OS, it should be a site that every person who loves good old games has bookmarked.

gg.deals
best price comparison site so far

first thing that comes to mind :

Sjeeeeez .................

though if pc gamer would still release their british magazine i'm sure i would take a peak once or twice a year