Gamers still consider the Pripyat mission in Call of Duty 4 and Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 to be the best in history of video games
Some missions you just click through, while others stick in your memory for years and pop right back up the moment someone mentions the game's name. These are the moments that fuel the endless debate...
Fallout: New Vegas fan showed how the RPG could look in the isometric perspective of the classic series entries
Sometimes all it takes is a different camera angle to turn a familiar game into something completely new. The Mojave Wasteland, shot from above at a distinctive tilt, suddenly stops looking like a first-person shooter...
Modder bypassed GeForce NOW protection and turned a $10 subscription into a rental of a powerful cloud PC on Windows
A modder going by Zortos, working alongside developer dpadGuy, has found a way to break out of GeForce NOW restricted game interface and reach the full Windows desktop running on NVIDIA cloud hardware. The exploit...
One of the largest mods for Terraria is being shut down after the creator was accused of grooming
One of the biggest mods for Terraria is coming to an end. On August 10, the Calamity development team announced it was fully halting work on the modification, citing internal conflicts, a mass exodus of...
Researcher created a leaderboard of the slowest x86 instructions – record of 198 billion cycles in 62 seconds
Instruction latency analysis usually helps figure out how long low-level commands take to run on a processor, with the goal of optimizing either the architecture itself or applications built for specific hardware. Hardware researcher Christopher...
How powerful is Galadriel – analysis of the might of the elf who conquered Dol Guldur
Trying to measure the "power" of Tolkien characters like some kind of anime power scale almost always ends in failure, because Middle-earth runs on completely different rules. Might here isn't about how much you can...
Oblivion developer, 20 years later, still remembers a quest that the game completed by itself
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered art lead Dan Lee shared a story that explains why Bethesda Game Studios games are still considered a benchmark for living open worlds. Lee joined the studio shortly after...
Cyberpunk 2077 fans appreciated the concept of Johnny Silverhand through millennia, from a cave painting to "Star Wars"
The success of Cyberpunk 2077 was built on more than just Night City neon and Johnny Silverhand rock-and-roll terrorism. A lot of it came down to a near-universal rebellion formula, where the whole point is...
Skyrim player showed bread and a piece of cheese in 8K from a 600 GB mod pack
The LoreRim modpack for Skyrim has become the perfect example of what texture resolution wars have done to modding. The install eats up as much space as a dozen modern game releases combined, and the...
Inventor created a "real-life home screen" for physical game discs
Nothing beats the feeling of owning physical games, but a digital library on a home screen has its own perks. Being able to instantly flick through box art and pick a title with a controller...
An enthusiast decided to make a cat bed on top of his PC instead of spikes – it turned out that many people do this
Cats have an unerring instinct for heat, and they'll colonize any source of warm air faster than you can blink. A gaming PC, with its fans and a case that's always warm, isn't just furniture...
RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
Programmer created a GIF image that prints its exact copy using the Piet Quine technique
Champion coder Yusuke Endoh continues to show off esoteric programming skills on social media. Their latest creation is called a Piet Quine, a GIF image that prints itself. In other words, the GIF is both...
Korean probe Danuri took the first images of the Falcon 9 stage impact site on the Moon
Earlier this week, it emerged that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had crashed into the surface of the moon. The collision wasn't considered massive, but the four-ton stage reportedly slammed into...
New York resident receives children's letters for Spider-Man – he owns the superhero's real house
A New York resident who shares an address with Spider-Man has revealed that kids send letters to the superhero – and he actually receives them. Plenty of superheroes have headquarters and homes in real cities,...
Super El Niño could raise sea levels off the coast of California to record highs
As the peak of El Niño draws closer, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about its potential impacts. According to several experts, California may be in for a particularly difficult winter. During a virtual town hall...
Space Engineers 2 player created a giant automatic quarry that yields 560 thousand iron in three hours of work
Space Engineers 2 now has a working example of fully automated mining in survival mode. The rig spins around a vertical axis and lowers drills into the ground without any player input, grinding out circle...
Why the Alliance didn't care about the millions of abducted colonists in Mass Effect 2
Space colonization in the Mass Effect universe works in a way that part of humanity flat out refuses to live under the Systems Alliance umbrella. People head out to the Terminus frontier specifically so the...
An investigation has begun in Canada – how a mistake in a Skyrim fan's nickname led to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison
Canadian officials have launched an investigation into how an innocent man ended up spending 18 months behind bars after police confused his username, inspired by Skyrim, with a nearly identical account. Brandon Klayme was acquitted...
PC enthusiast sent liquid cooling directly onto the die of an RTX 2060 and lowered the temperature from 70°C to 28°C
An enthusiast going by the name TrashBench ran a radical GPU cooling experiment, ditching traditional heatsinks for direct water contact with the graphics chip silicon. The result turned out impressive, with temperatures dropping from 70°C...
