The movie Oblivion with Tom Cruise predicted 13 years ago how AI would suck water from Earth
A joke about the 2013 movie Oblivion made the rounds online recently, framed around the idea that thirteen years ago, draining the oceans to power a giant AI was treated as bad news rather than...
The upcoming expansion for The Witcher 3 will feature Geralt's canonical weapon from the books for the first time – a silver chain
At Gamescom, CD Projekt Red finally revealed the long-awaited teaser trailer for the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3. The biggest surprise came from the weapon in Geralt hands – a silver...
Patch 4.040.200 for The Witcher 3 released, giving away the first two expansions for free, plus a full list of remaster features
CD Projekt RED released update 4.040.200 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt right after announcing the free remaster at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The patch is already live, while the remaster itself won't arrive until...
A Fallout 4 fan reminded us that fisticuffs isn't just a fun and spectacular way to play, but also a very effective method of completing the game even in survival mode
Melee combat in a post-apocalyptic wasteland already sounds like something for people who've given up on caution. Going up against raiders and super mutants with your bare fists, on survival difficulty, where a single burst...
The Elder Scrolls 6 will keep Skyrim's famous cheese physics – but Bethesda needs to find a use for it
The Elder Scrolls 6, rumored to carry the subtitle Sentinel, was teased back in 2019, and a release date remains a mystery. One of the few confirmed details concerns the technical foundation – the game...
Skyrim fans reminded that fire arrows and paralysis turn bandits into ballistic projectiles
Physics in Bethesda games rarely behaves the way developers intended. But sometimes two harmless elements combine into something that sends an enemy flying past the horizon faster than they can process what just happened. The...
Mortal Shell 2 has typical optimization for a game on Unreal Engine 5 – the game suffers from stutters and Lumen issues
DSOGaming continues putting new releases through their paces, and this time the outlet turned its attention to Mortal Shell 2, the souls-like built on Unreal Engine 5.2. Testing was done on a rig featuring an...
What Games Should Still Be Added to the Perfect 2000s Gamer Desktop
Any attempt to build a complete list of games from an entire era ends the same way – someone always finds a gap the size of Homeworld. And when the topic is Windows 95 and...
8 years later, Marvel fans are once again arguing about how Thanos knew Tony Stark's name
A short exchange on Titan from Avengers: Infinity War keeps popping up in discussions eight years after the movie premiered. As you probably remember, Thanos addresses the hero by his last name, Stark asks in...
Fallout creator's face has been hidden in the game's icon for almost 30 years
A joke made for future hardware doesn't stay a joke forever. Developers in the 90s hid gags in places they figured nobody would reach for another twenty years, and then technology caught up and spilled...
Many Fallout 4 veterans still don't know about the existence of message-in-a-bottle items in the game that lead to treasures
There's a special kind of discovery that only very old games can offer: a player who's logged a couple thousand hours in a beloved title suddenly stumbles on content they've never seen before. Not a...
Ciri defeats a manticore in new The Witcher 4 concept art – this monster was cut from the third game
CD Projekt RED shared a new concept art from the The Witcher 4 universe showing Ciri locked in a deadly battle with a manticore. The piece, framed in an elegant black border, captures the climactic...
Action games based on "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" are considered among the best Lord of the Rings games by fans
A good measure of how alive a game still is isn't its launch-day scores but how many people argue about its mechanics from memory two decades later. EA action games based on Peter Jackson trilogy...
The Witcher 3 remaster will release for free on September 29 with a Songs of the Past trailer
CD Projekt RED announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered during Gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25. The update arrives September 29 and goes to every owner of the game for free, with no...
Enthusiast attached a dual-tower CPU cooler to a GTX 1080 Ti and dropped the temperature by 32 degrees
Modder TrashBench is back with another round of experiments on old Nvidia Pascal cards, this time cutting apart three different GPUs: the GTX 1060, GTX 1070, and GTX 1080 Ti. The idea was simple on...
Fans confirm that the leaked GTA 6 map is 100% accurate
A community of enthusiasts, who spent years reconstructing the GTA 6 map frame by frame, has gone through material from this week's leak. Members compared the leaked image against their own version of the open...
Beautiful, expensive, and unbearable – games where you want to skip every cutscene
Game technology keeps improving at breakneck speed, but writing departments don't get the same treatment – if anything, they're usually the first thing studios cut. Developers can render individual skin pores, simulate fabric physics down...
Analyst who worked at EA for nine years doesn't believe in a new Mass Effect release after the deal with Saudi Arabia
This month, EA came under the control of a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. Employees at the publisher are already bracing for...
Sony reminded players that they do not own digital games
PlayStation account holders received an unexpected email containing the full text of the platform's user agreements, spelling out that purchased digital games remain a license rather than something you actually own. The mailing landed right...
MIT engineers assembled living transistors from bacteria that perform one calculation every 8 hours
Modern electronics rely on simple patterns for passing along and processing signals. Living organisms have worked this way for billions of years, and that similarity hasn't gone unnoticed by engineers. A team at the Massachusetts...
