Arthur Morgan's ghost, or why replaying Red Dead Redemption is sad after the second game
Prequels have a way of rewriting the past, and not just the story kind. Learn how everything started, and an ending that once felt complete suddenly develops gaps. Then it gets absurd: a character the...
Fallout 4 fan builds a pyramid so gigantic in the game without a single mod that it should be visible from space
The settlement system in Fallout 4 was meant to bring a little comfort to the Commonwealth after the nuclear war. Almost 11 years after release, it has turned into a proper sport: who can hit...
Tencent wants to "grow" new Larian and FromSoftware among its subsidiary studios and is ready to wait years for it
Tencent plans to build out studios and stay focused on specific genres in hopes of creating the next Larian or FromSoftware, developers capable of releasing year-defining hits like Baldur's Gate 3 or Elden Ring. Yong-yi...
RTX 2080Ti can't deliver stable 60 FPS in Gears of War: E-Day at Full HD, and RTX 5090 struggles with 4K – and that's without RTX Mega Geometry
DSOGaming keeps putting new releases through the benchmark wringer. This time the outlet turned its attention to the shooter Gears of War: E-Day. The game runs on Unreal Engine 5.6.1, and performance results are now...
Life-size Fallout protectron cosplay that people mistake for screenshots
The strangest compliment a video game cosplay can get is "this isn't cosplay." When a costume is so accurate that viewers hunt for a game interface in the frame, suspect upscaling mods, and flat-out refuse...
Gears of War: E-Day mocked the main quote from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Real recognition in the games industry isn't measured in sales or trophies. It comes when other developers start hiding references to your game in theirs. The highest form of recognition arrives when that reference turns...
The memorial wall is almost full – how Mass Effect 3 begins for the worst Shepard
BioWare spent years selling the Mass Effect trilogy on the promise that every decision carries weight. Most players treat that as an unspoken challenge: save everyone, earn every squadmate's loyalty, and reach the finale with...
Gamer rid RTX 5090 of melting connectors and cables did not heat above 40 °C over 48 hours under load
Modder DallasGrave claims to have found a fix for one of the best-known problems with the GeForce RTX 5090, Nvidia's flagship graphics card: the melting 12VHPWR power connector. According to the modder, the solution will...
Part of RTX 4090 Founders Edition heatsink fell off after moving PC – repair estimated at $400
An owner of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition ran into a rare hardware failure. After he moved his PC, a piece of the heatsink fell off the graphics card. The RTX 40 series...
Russia creates its first 130 nm lithography tool, which lags 25 years behind Western counterparts
Zelenograd Nanotechnology Center (ZNTC) has completed the third stage of R&D on Russia's first lithography tool for 200-mm wafers on a 130nm process. CNews reported the news back in August 2026. The prototype is now...
The Witcher 3 fans are upset that the remaster literally destroyed the cozy charm of golden Toussaint
The chase for photorealism does strange things to games. Raw detail ages in a couple of years, while good art design lasts for decades. Sometimes a path tracing update manages to swap the latter for...
I've launched Skyrim with the first snow for 15 years in a row – gamers were surprised by a man from the Urals who has snow outside his window in October
Some games get played once. Others come back on a schedule, like a Christmas tree or a bowl of tangerines. The most interesting schedules are set by the weather outside, when the first snowfall matters...
Perfect black and the fear of burn-in: why OLED TVs divide gamers into camps
Buying a new monitor comes with a ritual, and almost everyone follows it. A person drops a few hundred dollars on an OLED panel, and the first thing they launch isn't a game but a...
Civilization 7 fans find spots on maps for the Panama Canal and beg Firaxis to add it as soon as possible
Longtime Civilization fans share a certain occupational quirk: spotting narrow land bridges on any map and immediately wanting to dig a channel through them for the fleet. The latest example comes from the game community,...
Lucky guy finds a discarded full PC with an i9-9900K and 32 GB of DDR4 by the trash bins amid the memory shortage
Throwing away a working PC in 2026 is roughly like leaving a gold bar by the dumpster wrapped in old newspaper. Tossing it along with passwords, documents, and financial data is a whole other level...
Don't slaughter the cows in The Witcher 3's prologue – otherwise the game turns into a horror movie
Starting areas in RPGs usually run on an unspoken agreement. The world goes easy on the hero and throws a few wolves, drowners, and a couple of clumsy bandits their way. Sometimes that deal falls...
Why the theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings works better than the director's cut
Extended cuts are usually seen as a gift to fans, with more scenes, more lore, and more of a beloved world. But the extra minutes can work like a spoiler the director cut into his...
Deborah Ann Woll broke a sturdy wooden stick while filming God of War Laufey motion capture – fans started theorizing about the axe
Sometimes a few seconds of behind-the-scenes footage is all it takes for fans to build a whole theory about an upcoming game. Sometimes it even stretches to the fate of an iconic weapon, all because...
Satisfactory developers admit that designing the caves in the Core Values expansion was their biggest challenge – old layouts won't work in them
Coffee Stain is working on Core Values, an expansion for Satisfactory, and the scale of the challenge turns out to be bigger than it first appears. The action moves underground, but simply adding some lights...
Skyrim player wanted to give the fallen Lydia a "Viking funeral" but instead accidentally launched her half-naked corpse into the stratosphere
No companion in video game history has died as often or as absurdly as the Whiterun housecarl. Over the years, Lydia has been thrown into dragon fire, dropped off cliffs, forgotten in Dwemer ruins, and...
