Poster for Sarik Andreasyan's "War and Peace" adaptation is riddled with AI blunders
Director and producer Sarik Andreasyan posted the first poster for his adaptation of the classic novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It follows the traditional style where characters and scenes from the film get...
First reviews of the new Resident Evil adaptation - critics promise a feeling like a very good game
Zach Cregger new Resident Evil movie screened for its first audience, and the reactions came in noticeably stronger than anyone expected from yet another attempt to bring Capcom franchise to the big screen. The film...
Photos from 26 years ago showing PS2 launch lines remind us of times when people queued for the console itself, not for resale
Photos of the overnight line from October 26, 2000, and the subsequent PS2 launch have brought back memories of the good old days. The pictures show a group of people outside a store with folding...
WoW developers officially recognized the Paladin as the "Dad Class"
At BlizzCon, developers got asked about their favorite classes, and one answer spread across the internet pretty fast. Game designer Josh Greenfield confirmed to GameSpot what the community has been joking about for years –...
Skyrim fans shared the locations where they retire their Dovahkins
Big RPGs have an annoying quirk: they never really end. You kill the main villain, the world cheerfully announces it's been saved, and then invites you to keep collecting butterflies – so you're left to...
Developer creates 3D code visualizer supporting millions of lines at up to 120 FPS
The phrase "it's a Unix system, I know this" from Jurassic Park has long been a meme among tech folks. Behind that scene was an actual piece of software, Silicon Graphics' File System Navigator for...
Three years at 100 degrees – i7-12700K processor worked fine without thermal paste at all
A pre-built PC from a store sells itself on a promise of peace of mind: someone else already put it together, tested it, and got it running. Sometimes that promise turns out to mean there...
The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past scriptwriter wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone – is the story in good hands?
If you need proof that real fans are working on The Witcher 3's new expansion, here's one: the lead writer of Songs of the Past wrote her thesis analyzing "Hearts of Stone" almost a decade...
Billionaire Gabe Newell formulated a universal rule three years ago about what makes games interesting – and realism has nothing to do with it
A clip from the Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary is making the rounds online again, with Valve boss Gabe Newell breaking down the role of realism in games. Newell opens with a familiar scene from design...
Bethesda veteran with 20 years of experience and The Elder Scrolls lore expert has been unable to find a job for months
Kurt Kuhlmann, one of the key designers at Bethesda Game Studios and known among fans as the "lore master" of The Elder Scrolls, publicly announced he's looking for work. The industry veteran got caught up...
Crusader Kings 3 player complained that the AI engaged his heir grandson to a 58-year-old widow – but it turned out that other gamers often do the same thing themselves
A medieval dynasty simulator promises full control over bloodlines, marriages, and succession. Until one day a player discovers that their grandson – and future heir – has already been betrothed to a widow old enough...
Valve quietly changed the Steam storefront, and indie developers are seeing traffic increase several times over
Steam discoverability has been a headache for years, with dozens of new releases hitting the storefront daily and making it easy for a lesser-known indie title to vanish. But according to analysts and publishers alike,...
Blizzard confirmed Protoss in the StarCraft shooter and pointed out where to find them in the trailer
The debut trailer for the new StarCraft shooter focused entirely on terrans and zerg, leaving fans wondering what happened to the third race. Dan Hay, general manager and creative director on the game, confirmed to...
Web development veteran compares AI's impact on frontend to an asteroid impact
Developer Nolan Lawson published a piece on August 23 on his blog Read the Tea Leaves about what's happening to frontend development in the age of agents. The main metaphor made it straight into the...
Enthusiast built an 8-bit computer with 460 vacuum tubes that needs 15 minutes to warm up
A self-taught electronics tinkerer named Mike built a working 8-bit computer that has no microprocessor, no microcontroller, and not a single modern integrated circuit inside it. All the logic runs on 460 Soviet-made vacuum tubes....
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...
