Here in the Search nav, you can.... SEARCH. Start typing a game or gamer, it will autosuggest. Press one to go, or hit Enter to get the full search results.
Below the searchbox, you'll see recent games, gamers, clubs, events, and quests you've visited.
Below that is the full site map with all of the different pages on this platform. Most of these are accessible in the other navs too. But here they're all in one place, if you're into that sort of thing.
Jump in a virtual or IRL event, tournament, or league. Participate in a Quest (a gaming challenge that you can do any time). Channel 3 has something for all skill levels, including gaming-focused daily minigames.
Go to Events below to search for real-time tournaments or other events. Quests will show you offline challenges you can complete at any time.
You may have friends here already, or you may meet your next lifelong squadmate here. Either way, Channel 3 is most fun when you find your people and can have friendly competitions and participate in challenges together.
Below you can navigate all the gamers, clubs, and causes on Channel 3.
If you'd like to create and run a Club, submit an New Club Request.
Whether it's 1 to 2, or 99 to 100, leveling up is the best feeling in the world. On Channel 3, when you participate in quests, when your post gets 1Up'd, when you crush a daily minigame, you get XP. Get 1k XP, and you level up and unlock rewards. Rewards can be custom reaction GIFs, cool backgrounds, or prize wheel spins for IRL gaming gear or in game currency.
Turbo is an optional subscription for superusers. You don't need Turbo to enjoy Channel 3. Turbo users get early access to new features, and are able to unlock more levels in a season.
On Channel 3, seasons last 3 months. They will always run January 1 - April 1, April 1 - July 1, July 1 - October 1, and October 1 - January 1.
Open channel3.gg in Chrome. Click the Install icon in the right side of the address bar:
Click Install when you get this prompt.
After installation, you can pin to the Windows taskbar alongside your other favorite apps.
Open channel3.gg in Safari. It has to be Safari.
Tap the Share button in the middle of the footer.
Tap Add to Home Screen.
Tap Add on the prompt.
BOOM. You're done. iPhones try to act like it's "just a website bookmark" because they want everyone to go through the App Store but really it functions just like an app... Full screen, moveable icon on your home screen. All of it.
Enjoy.
Install the Channel 3 app from the Google Play Store.
Dad, Therapist, and Gamer. Co-caster for @haloinfinite and @fortnite with @TheDadGaming . Gong Show: Event that proves to be a disaster, often in a fun or memorable way
If planet Earth played video games, which would be its favorites? These are the games that celebrate our planet, by showing the beauty of nature, raising awareness for climate issue, encouraging sustainability, etc.
In no particular order, and no justifications. Except Clayfighter. That's a guilty pleasure. I never bought it, rented it from Blockbuster a few times. Parents wouldn't ever let me buy it, but it was the closest I could get to Mortal Kombat when I was younger.
Also, Diddy Kong Racing is the GOAT.
Top 10 Nintendo 64 Games
Rank your top 10 (and only 10) games for the Nintendo 64 console.
You have no opinion of games on this list, because you know literally nothing about them. Adding games to this list may prevent them from showing up in certain places on Channel 3.
So far. Once we sell the Lenovo laptop that's just sitting around the house, that's gonna help fund my Steam Deck (finally!) and I plan for the next thing on this list to be BG3 😄
Separate from games that Cr3w recommended, these are games that you only tried for the first time and/or continued to play thereafter because of C3 activities. Not "I tried it before and tried again now," but truly tried for the first time.
Paw Patrol: OaR was a great 2d platformer for some basics (controller handling, moving a character on the screen, using action buttons to interact with things in the environment)
Bluey, for it's shortcomings (some glitches, being a very simple game but also some random more advanced platforming sections thrown in), is a great intermediate step after some like Paw Patrol. It introduces the 3d aspect, was characters familiar (at least to our family) and loved by our kids, and is fun and simple enough that you can enjoy playing it with the kiddos, or let them wander around solo and mostly be okay.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes, we've just dipped our toes into, but we've fought a couple bosses together (Abomination, Sandman, and Doc Ock), and it's basically expanding on the things learned in the Bluey game. I'd say at my kid's current age (she's 5 at the time of writing this) it's a bit of a stretch for her, especially with how the split screen works (sometimes with it shifting around she gets a little turned around, and she gets a little lost with the fact that her camera can be turned so there isn't a set direction to head, like "go up to come to me"), but we're enjoying it, and as long as we're playing together, she's figuring it out and is enjoying it enough that she still wants to keep coming back to it.
Kid Recommendations
E for everyone, these are the games you'd recommend to parents of young kids. Kids will love em, so will adults.
Technically started in the last days of 2023 with my older daughter, but I'm considering it 2024 because we know time is wibbly wobbly, especially in that stretch between Christmas and New Year's 😅
2024 Games Started
A list for games that you started playing in 2024.
We all know that the backlog is a barren wasteland from which games never return. This is your on-deck checklist for games that you actually will be playing next. This list isn't a graveyard, it's a reservation.
Metroidvania is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania.
I don't really play much Warzone, but DMZ is fantastic. I mostly play it solo, but on the occasion I can get a teammate or two (that aren't just randoms), it's that much better.
I've only played a little It Takes Two, but it was well laid out in its cooperative elements, and I want to go back and finish it.
Overcooked is pure chaos, and if you've got a group of 4 people sitting on a couch yelling "I need lettuce" "WHERE ARE ALL THE PLATES" "uh, the hamburgers just caught fire" at each other at the same time, it can't be beat.
Minecraft is just pure fun when playing with friends, and you get to make it what you want.
Any/all Halos belong on this list, I just put the first one. Do you play Halo unless you go back and do a legendary co-op run with your best friend through the night with a case of energy drinks?
Sea of Thieves and No Man's Sky both are sort of open ended, exploratory, "make what you want of it" type games that are a little empty feeling if you're playing alone (No Man's Sky moreso, since it's expansive space instead of a limited sea map), so I'd say they're great games, but you really should play them with as many people as you can.
I don't pay too much attention to OSTs most of the time, and when I do, it's usually for making a workout playlist or something, so usually anything Doom and some Halo can work, lol
List the games that you missed out on during their first pass that you hope to get a shot at someday. Maybe an upgrade, remaster, re-release, retro - whatever. You didn't get to play it but you hope to someday.
Kind of the "you most likely got these multiple places" trifecta...
Multiple Purchases
What games have you bought multiple times? Whether across system generations, upgraded versions, broken copies, digital and physical, multiple family members, whatever. List them! Inspired by @connerf
There have probably been some others, but these ones stand out in my mind. Halo 2 probably being the first one I ever did. I remember going to the midnight release to pickup my copy of it. Pokemon Sword being the one I did first after really getting back into gaming, and Cyberpunk being most recent.
A little different from your Favorites, these are the games you'd tell a friend to check out. Maybe they're underrated, maybe they're cult classics, but these are the ones you're always mentioning to people.
