IO Interactive AI programmer claims that NPCs in GTA 6 are at least 10 years ahead of the industry
IO Interactive AI programmer Berkay Dursun spoke about the crowd technology in GTA 6, comparing it to the work done at his own studio. The comments came after gameplay clips leaked online shortly before Rockstar...
1 kilometer and 10 meters – how Pearl Abyss taught players to trust the horizon in Crimson Desert
Pearl Abyss revealed the main goal behind the open world in Crimson Desert. Developers wanted every point players could spot in the distance to be reachable. The studio called that trust in the horizon its...
Prospera announced – a victorian-era city-building simulator
Prospera made its debut at the Future Games Show, bringing an unusual take on the city-building genre by letting players experience it through the eyes of an ordinary worker. The debut trailer runs just 30...
Enthusiast built a PC in the nose of a de Havilland aircraft so that Flight Simulator would work authentically
Custom PC cases stopped being just about cooling a long time ago and turned into a form of self-expression – aquariums, wooden boxes, sometimes even replicas of tractor factories. But giving a system unit an...
In the Alien universe, there is a xenomorph king
The Alien universe leans heavily on insect biology, and insects come in a lot of different flavors. Bees and ants don't have kings, but termites do, and their king lives with the queen for decades...
Baldur's Gate 3 mod adds a 6-hour campaign about Astarion with 4 endings and a cat you can pet
Baldur's Gate 3 is finally getting the kind of custom campaigns fans have wanted since Divinity: Original Sin 2. A Dream of Silence: ReVamped launched on Nexus Mods and delivers roughly six hours of new...
Oblivion and Skyrim have completely different types of thieves guilds – how The Elder Scrolls changed its attitude toward crime
Factions in RPGs rarely amount to just a set of quests. A guild is a way to explore a world from the inside, through the profession and morality of the people who survive in it....
Assassin's Creed Odyssey became the highest-rated game in the series on Steam thanks to Christopher Nolan's new film
Turns out the best advertising a game could ask for showed up in movie theaters. After the premiere of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster "The Odyssey," Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the eleventh mainline entry in the series,...
Crusader Kings 3 player created a copy of himself – but gamers were more impressed by the real photo of the chad author
Character creators exist for pretty much one reason – to let people make themselves a little better looking than they actually are. Higher cheekbones, a sharper jawline, none of the asymmetry only the bathroom mirror...
Minecraft server on a smartphone with an AMD cooler and built-in UPS
When people imagine a home server, they picture a humming tower in the corner, a rack in the basement, or at least a single-board computer stuffed into a 3D-printed case. In reality, running a Minecraft...
Modders launched DLSS 5 in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Skyrim – performance loss up to 45% on RTX 5090
New footage of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 running with NVIDIA DLSS 5 has surfaced online. There is no before/after comparison yet, so it's too early to judge the actual improvement in image quality. The choice...
Kit Harington will play Gilderoy Lockhart in the 'Harry Potter' series instead of Nicholas Hoult
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is returning to HBO for another big fantasy production. The actor will play vain author and Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart in Season 2 of Harry...
Companies are abandoning discs because factories no longer produce drives – they are only needed for consoles
Physical game releases usually get mourned as a casualty of laziness, Sony, and digital sales – buyers got lazy, greedy Japanese companies want every penny they can squeeze out, and boxes vanished from shelves on...
The death quarry from Fallout: New Vegas looks like the Fallout 2 cover with an enclave soldier from above
Games are designed for eye-level viewing, maybe from the nearest hill at most. A top-down view usually stays a technical angle reserved for designers, map editors, and people who mess around with fly console commands,...
Danish engineers created a soft robot worm, and the internet saw something else entirely
Researchers at SDU Soft Robotics, part of the University of Southern Denmark, have built a soft, limbless robot that can crawl across rough terrain much like an earthworm. The project was meant to serve as...
The Odyssey viewer showed what it's like to watch the film in IMAX from the front row
Even though The Odyssey premiered more than a month ago, theaters are still running it hard in IMAX, since for now it's the only movie that can reliably pack seats at that premium price point....
After the free remaster of The Witcher 3 was announced, most gamers once again calling CD Projekt RED the best studio in the universe
Games industry has trained everyone to expect a familiar cycle – a studio ships a broken game, collects money from preorders, quietly patches critical bugs for six months, then moves on to the next title....
Mod with 725 thousand downloads to be officially included in The Witcher 3 Remastered
CD Projekt RED brought in one of the community most well-known modders to work on The Witcher 3 Remastered. The developer in question goes by "HalkHogan" and created The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project NextGen...
Modern Warfare 4 developers will fix balding Captain Price – players nicknamed him "Lieutenant Receding"
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 developers have promised to fix Captain Price's look, whose haircut became a target for jokes during the beta test. The beta kicked off on August 21, and throughout it,...
Players noticed an abundance of attractive heroines in trailers at gamescom, but almost all the games turned out to be Asian
A roundup of seven shots featuring female characters from Gamescom Opening Night Live trailers caught the attention of a certain corner of gamers. In the original post on X, the trend got linked to audience...
