Enthusiast hacked a laptop's BIOS using Claude Code and unlocked 55 hidden settings
Laptops with locked BIOS sometimes sell for low prices because of the restrictions that this kind of firmware protection creates. A user of the Claude AI shared the process that let them successfully unlock an...
16 GB of video memory has become the new standard for gamers on Steam
The bar for a "normal" amount of video memory has quietly moved up. Just a couple years ago, 8GB counted as a comfortable minimum for most games, but cards with that same amount are no...
Gamers decided that the RTX 5090 can no longer be called a gaming graphics card – it has become too expensive
The graphics card that now costs as much as a used car is losing its right to be called a gaming product. The RTX 5090 stopped being the ceiling for gamers a while ago and...
Minecraft received update 3.45 with new biomes and hundreds of fixes
Mojang released a new update for the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, bringing a huge list of changes. On consoles the update shows up as Minecraft 3.45 and includes the experimental Drop 3 features alongside a...
Spider-Man is raking in billions, but Marvel has created its own problem with this character
Marvel has run into an unusual problem for a franchise of this scale. Tom Holland has played Peter Parker in four solo movies now, but the character still hasn't gotten a personal villain whose rivalry...
A gamer revealed that his late grandfather left behind an official Skyrim guidebook, sparking an existential crisis among fans of the series
A gamer recently shared photos online of an official Skyrim guide found among the belongings of their recently deceased grandfather, calling the book "old merch." That phrase hit the audience harder than the story itself...
BMW owners unhappy about the appearance of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" advertising on their cars' central displays
BMW pushed a promo animation for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" to the screens of its cars and called it a special surprise for drivers. The campaign started on July 27, 2026 and runs through August...
George Martin wrote in his blog for the first time in six months about 9 nominations for Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin published a post titled "Better Late Than Never" on August 3, marking his first personal entry on Not a Blog since February 19. Everything posted on the site in between came from...
New mod for Fallout 4 completely overhauls shooting with customizable weapon inertia and movement
Modder TheShinyHaxorus released an impressive mod for Fallout 4. It adds fully customizable weapon and first-person movement inertia, along with several useful features that improve the overall feel of shooting. In the original version of...
Developer built an app for cursed photos using a 2007 algorithm and attracted millions of views
A developer going by measure_plan showed off a content-aware scaling tool built, in his own words, for "cursed photo editing." A post featuring warped portraits spread across social media, and beta access requests flooded in...
Warhammer 40,000 experts calculated how many Imperial Titans are needed to take down a Reaper from Mass Effect
Pitting two universes against each other is a favorite pastime for fans, especially when the fight involves combat machines the size of skyscrapers. The premise is simple – how many Imperial Titans from Warhammer 40,000...
Rust player paralyzed after swatting demands $176 million from police
23-year-old Axeel Melendez from Tucson has filed a $176 million lawsuit against local law enforcement. The case stems from an incident in April, when officers responding to a false call shot him in the leg...
Fallout 3 fan asked the remaster's developers to get rid of Rivet City's loading screens
Bethesda Game Studios officially confirmed remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, though no release dates were given. Discussion after the announcement quickly turned to a question that matters more to players than graphics....
Players found a second painting in GTA 5 resembling a GTA 6 map
Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick promised that the GTA 6 marketing campaign would kick off this summer and wouldn't follow the usual playbook. Summer is almost over, and barely any official material has shown up....
Viewers of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" lower their personal rating of the film after reflecting on plot and character flaws
A day after watching "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," one viewer posted a detailed breakdown explaining why his initial rating didn't hold up. He originally gave the film seven out of ten, but dropped it to...
Fans bring drawings and other works to Tolkien's grave in Oxford – it has turned into a place of pilgrimage for fans
The resting place of the man who created Middle-earth looks surprisingly modest for someone whose influence on fantasy culture is hard to overstate. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried at Wolvercote...
Larian released update 1.096 for Baldur's Gate 3 and launched a 30% discount
One of the best RPGs of the decade keeps getting support. Larian Studios released a new patch for Baldur's Gate 3. The studio previously said the major content update with new features that launched a...
18-year-old guy bought 20 DDR5 modules for $1600 to resell in 15 years
An eighteen-year-old buyer purchased twenty Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 sticks for a total of $1,600 and stashed them in a drawer. The plan spans ten to fifteen years, after which he expects to sell the...
The Dark Urge to Start All Over Again – Players Explain Why They Replay Baldur's Gate 3 Ten Times
Some games are impossible to "finish" in the traditional sense. You reach the credits, save Baldur's Gate, kill Ketheric Thorm, and a couple of weeks later find yourself creating a new character, swearing this time...
Valve saved the current build of Half-Life: Alyx to a separate branch, and the community is already building theories
A new Steam branch for Half-Life: Alyx called "previous_release" has shown up. Valve locked down the current version of the game separately, which usually happens before major changes hit the main build. The most likely...
