Skyrim fans hope that in The Elder Scrolls 6 you'll be able to find the grave of the last Dragonborn
Any Bethesda hero eventually turns into a line in a history book that the next nameless protagonist skims between two dungeon crawls. But sometimes you want something more grounded – like a stone gravestone, for...
The first fight between a human and a humanoid Terminator-like robot took place in San Francisco
An unusual match in San Francisco has been making the rounds online – a human squared off against a six-foot-tall humanoid robot inside a fighting cage. The event was organized by REK, a US robotics...
The three best protagonists of story-driven RPG live in Eastern Europe
The RPG genre has long run on American fuel: Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect. But put together a short list of characters worth living a hundred hours as, and it turns out they all come from...
David and Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners in Fallout, Mass Effect, Persona, Red Dead Redemption and other universes
The suffix "-punk" stopped being a genre marker a long time ago and turned into a universal aesthetic generator: take any technology, add social inequality, and you're done. Dieselpunk, atompunk, solarpunk, shibuyapunk – the list...
New Fallout 4 player at level 37 couldn't find a suitable target for the Fat Man and asked other gamers for advice
Any RPG inventory eventually turns into a museum of items that never get used. Elixirs, scrolls, rare ammo just sit there gathering dust until the credits roll, and Fallout 4 takes this to an absurd...
War Skylines 2 mod for Cities Skylines 2 gets a global map, diplomacy, and 24 military research options
Modder AbeJustAbe has released the first major update for the playtest version of War Skylines II. The mod adds a layer of modern warfare and air defense to Cities: Skylines 2. You can grab it...
Microsoft patents a system that pauses games for advertising
Ads in games stopped being exotic a long time ago, but they mostly lived in the mobile segment and behaved rudely: round over, here's a full-screen banner. Microsoft, judging by a recent patent application, wants...
The head of a Japanese anime studio said that the era of overwork and $350 salaries is becoming a thing of the past
Motoki Tanaka, known by the alias Tensho, founder and CEO of Bibury Animation Studios, took to X to address people hoping to break into the anime industry. According to him, working conditions and pay have...
Typewriter, green grass, and a shotgun on the wall – why the new Resident Evil movie is still Resident Evil
A game adaptation can follow the source material to the letter and still feel completely dead, or it can skip every recognizable logo and still feel like the truest thing to the series. The debate...
OpenAI believes AI can link two isolated computers via processor heating instead of Morse code
Noam Brown from OpenAI has cast doubt on one of the main barriers against uncontrolled AI behavior – physical isolation of machines. According to him, a sufficiently advanced model can bypass even a complete lack...
Control Resonant in 4K without ray tracing and upscaling can only be handled by the RTX 5090 – but with DLSS 4.5 you can play with path tracing even on the RTX 5080
DSOGaming continues testing new video game releases. This time, they turned their attention to the action-adventure game Control Resonant. For the benchmarks, they used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM at...
Bruce Straley apologized several times to the developers of God of War Laufey for citing their game as an example of "AAA industry stagnation"
Bruce Straley, Naughty Dog veteran and one of the creators behind The Last of Us and Uncharted, has publicly apologized to the Santa Monica Studio team behind God of War Laufey. The apology came after...
A Fallout 4 player noticed the Children of Atom symbol on Vault 81's Tina's forehead and came up with a whole backstory before finding out it was just a bug
A tenth playthrough of the same game works like a magnifying glass: the story gets memorized by heart, dialogue gets skipped on reflex, but the eye suddenly latches onto some tiny detail that got ignored...
Saber Interactive's director knows how to avoid layoffs – you need to give up expensive American cities and work on 5-6 small games simultaneously with AAA titles
Layoffs have become a constant fixture in gaming industry news. Even if the pace of cuts has slowed down somewhat in 2026, their severity hasn't lessened. In July, Microsoft made 1600 staff redundant as part...
A Crusader Kings 3 player was amazed by the game's realism – his daughter became an alcoholic at just 15
Medieval dynasty simulators tend to produce stories no scriptwriter could dream up. There you are, counting taxes and planning a marriage alliance with a neighboring duchy, when the game casually informs you that your fifteen-year-old...
Wardogs developers acknowledged balance issues and the blue team's constant losses
Tactical FPS Wardogs has been out in early access for just over a week, and players the world over have been putting it through its paces. The uber-popular game has garnered a community that's already...
A popcorn bucket shaped like Guile's hairstyle from Street Fighter can be worn on your head
The collectible popcorn bucket industry at movie theaters never stops finding new ways to surprise us. We've seen ones that look like sex toys, ones that were two feet tall, and ones you could swing...
Skyrim player realized he was an idiot when he enchanted a helmet with water breathing while playing as an Argonian
Long RPG sessions put the brain on autopilot – hands craft, enchant, and sort loot faster than the mind can ask "why." Usually that ends with three hundred spare arrows lying around. Sometimes, though, it...
Avengers: Doomsday allegedly leaked online in 4K three months before premiere
Social media is buzzing with claims that Avengers: Doomsday leaked online in its entirety three months before hitting theaters. X users claim the film is available in 2160p resolution, with one distributor supposedly holding a...
Apple agreed to refund money for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max due to throttling, but the buyer loses $2000
The owner of a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip ran into serious overheating and clock speed drops while running AI workloads. The laptop cost A$8,949, roughly $6,362. A warranty replacement didn't fix...
