Daniel Vavra showed 4 versions of the heroine's face from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 in the DLSS 5 debate
Daniel Vavra returned to the DLSS 5 debate once again, calling the panic surrounding the technology overblown. The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 creative director posted a side-by-side comparison using Katherine, the game character played by...
Season breaks for TV Shows come at a high cost – new report shows a 59% drop in audience
Analytics firm Luminate has published a report confirming something viewers and streaming services have long suspected: the longer a show waits between seasons, the fewer people show up to watch it. The study looked at...
Why the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Blu-ray turned green, and no one fixed it
Color grading is the most invisible and total magic in cinema – one shifted slider changes not just a shot, but the mood of an entire story. And if the mistake doesn't get caught before...
An old video of Gabe Newell explaining why Valve will never become a public company that answers to shareholders has gone viral online
An old clip of Gabe Newell has resurfaced online, showing the Valve boss discussing private company ownership and prioritizing employees over shareholders. The clip feels especially relevant given the wave of layoffs sweeping the tech...
The family of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's main character – real monsters
The scariest villains in history are the ones who genuinely believe they're the victim. And when that victim happens to hold a paintbrush capable of creating living people, an ordinary family drama turns into industrial-scale...
Gamers have started reselling RTX 5090 cards they managed to buy before the insane price surge on top-tier graphics cards
Usually hardware behaves predictably: you buy a flagship, it's worth a third less a year later, and by year two you're almost embarrassed to list it for sale. But the GPU market has managed to...
Persona producer believes that creating remakes of the franchise's first and second installments is his personal duty as a developer
Persona series producer Kazuhisa Wada reiterated that remakes of the franchise first two entries will probably eventually happen. According to him, keeping old games accessible for new generations of players is something of a professional...
Afterworld strategy game will let you deal with the elderly and sell children
Paradox Interactive is working on a new strategy game called Afterworld, set in a post-apocalyptic North America. Like other titles from the studio, this game offers players nearly unlimited freedom in building their own society,...
A Crusader Kings 3 player shared a story typical of this strategy game about the biggest war of the Roman Empire, which started because of the emperor's wife's infidelity
Grand strategy games promise epics – crusades, holy wars, standing against the Mongol horde sweeping in from the east. Then it turns out the biggest bloodbath of an entire campaign had nothing to do with...
The events of Avatar: Seven Havens will unfold in a post-apocalyptic world 225 years after The Legend of Korra
Avatar creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko shared new details about the upcoming animated series Avatar: Seven Havens. The idea for a follow-up to The Legend of Korra featuring an earthbending Avatar first came...
HoYoverse won $112,000 in a lawsuit against an AI company that copied voices and character designs from Genshin Impact
Another company developing generative AI models has run into the harsh reality of copyright law. This time, an unnamed "AI company" lost in a Shanghai court after illegally copying character voices from Genshin Impact. HoYoverse...
Songs of the Past were made possible thanks to the development of a remaster of the 11-year-old The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fool's Theory revealed that the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt might never have happened without a massive remaster of the base game. Technical limits of the original engine made...
Fans ran Fallout New Vegas through DLSS 5 seven times and got a real nightmare
Anyone who has been anywhere near the gaming space over the past couple of weeks has probably seen folks messing around with DLSS 5, NVIDIA's AI-driven neural rendering tech that pushes games toward photorealism in...
Rusty car turned out to be the most dangerous Predator of the Wasteland in Fallout 4 due to typical Bethesda bugs
Some enemies in games you actually prepare for: you hear a deathclaw roar behind a hill, count your ammo, gear up in power armor. Others make no sound, don't show up on the compass, and...
Zach Cregger apologized in advance for the Resident Evil film adaptation to disgruntled fans – especially for the absence of Leon Kennedy
Zach Cregger, director of the upcoming Resident Evil movie, admitted to a communication misstep with fans and apologized for not meeting the expectations of part of the fanbase. He addressed months of criticism from the...
Amazing video of a flight over the Sahara led to an analysis of dune geometry
A video shot through a plane window over the Sahara shows perfectly even rows of dunes stretching to the horizon with no landmark in sight. The pattern repeats so precisely that the first wave of...
There are still a hundred days until Avengers: Doomsday is released, and the movie has already earned more than $50 million in the US
Disney has already broken a major ticket resale record for Avengers: Doomsday, and the movie still has more than three months to go before it hits theaters. Disney has officially confirmed that the film has...
Fallout 4 fan showed how to turn a supermarket shopping cart into an equivalent of power armor using Bethesda's famous game physics
Power armor in Fallout 4 is presented as the pinnacle of pre-war engineering – nuclear cores, servomotors, a dedicated entry animation. But the most reliable shield in the Commonwealth turns out to be a rusty...
Old SSDs turned into Steam game cartridges, and it works better than it sounds
Digital libraries took away the shelf full of game boxes and replaced it with a list of icons and endless redownloading. The longing for physical media never really went away, though, and sometimes it takes...
19 years later, a lost part of God of War finally made it to PS2
God of War series has sold tens of millions of copies, spawned remasters, collector editions, and a move to Norse mythology, but one entry spent almost two decades existing only in the memory of flip...
