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.
I was shocked into consciousness from the trauma of accidentally deleting my brother's game of Zelda in 1986. I've been gaming to atone for that sin ever since. Book editor. Would-be starship pilot. Game Master on the podcast VERSUS. Dungeon Master at home and abroad. I've been every kind of Commander Shepard.
I had my eye on this game for a while and finally got it when it released on Switch. Say what you will about me, but 'game where you play as an insurance adjuster with a magical pocket watch' is very much my thing.
I respected everything about this game. The use of early era computer graphics was expertly executed, the voice acting was great, the concept was unique, it involves old-timey wooden ships which are generally neat. You're tasked with piecing together the fate of the Obra Dinn via a patchwork of stories presented in an unchronological fashion. You're shown scenes of the crew of the Obra Dinn at the times of their deaths, and it seems that a vast majority of the 60-person crew has died a horrible death of some sort. Your job is to match the people whose stories you're seeing to the names on the ship's manifest, figure out how they died, and who (or what) killed them.
It's a very clever, low-tech, video-game form of the classic logic puzzle—deduce information from what you're being shown and use process of elimination and context clues to solve the riddle.
This is all enough to earn it 5 stars from me. I love nothing more than an indie game that cleverly uses low-budget minimalism to its advantage. But if you're looking for an *exciting* video game to play, this isn't really the one. It's mostly like listening to a great audio-drama podcast with some supporting visual elements. You're more or less limited to skulking around the four decks of the Obra Dinn and listening to harrowing scenes of death and murder unfold.
And then there's just my personal shortcoming which is...I can't solve the damn thing and I sort of eventually lost interest. I went through all of the story once, Memento-style and out of order as it's first presented to you, and managed to scratch a few names and causes of death off the list. Then I went back through the stories, in chronological order this time, and was able to glean a lot more information the second time around, scratching many more names off of the list. Even after that though, I wasn't anywhere close to finishing, and there was still a lot of death and murder to solve—but I really didn't think I'd learn or notice much more with a third watch-through of the stories that I didn't catch the first two times around. So I never did solve the mystery, but maybe I'll return to it one day (or maybe I'll play 200 more hours of Stardew Valley, which is much more likely).
tl;dr—If you like logic puzzles and are looking for a unique game to play on your Switch on an 8-hour flight or something, then this is highly recommended. If you're a die-hard, highly critical 'gamer' then you should perhaps skip this one.
