HBO Harry Potter series is preparing for major changes, and one of them might hit fans harder than the rest. It concerns dropping the iconic musical theme familiar to millions of viewers from the original...

Newcomers to long-running strategy games almost never stop to think that the title they're playing once looked completely different. With Paradox Interactive, that gap can be especially stark. Some of its games have expanded over...

Any long-running universe eventually piles up a backlog of old decisions. Someone carefully puts them side by side, and the lore starts taking on a life of its own. That's especially true when the subject...

A pacifist run in an RPG is often an illusion of clean hands. A player can go the entire game without pulling the trigger once, but someone else will gladly do the dirty work for...

Fallout fans know exactly how much power armor matters in the series. These hulking metal suits can turn any battle around, and they look absolutely amazing doing it. Over the years, the franchise has introduced...

Focus Features has dropped the second trailer for Werwulf – a grim horror flick from director Robert Eggers, known for The Lighthouse and Nosferatu. The film takes viewers to a remote English village in the...

For years, the main selling point of PC gaming was affordability. Build a system once, and it ends up cheaper than a console in the long run. That logic broke down so badly in 2026...

In global World War Two strategy games, players have been leading the most notorious regimes of the 20th century to victory for years without much controversy. Real drama tends to erupt in the places you'd...

Creative Assembly released the Lords of the End Times expansion for the strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3. The expansion adds four new Legendary Lords and more than 50 new units and characters. Some fans...

Overloaded inventory is one of the oldest and most hated mechanics in role-playing games. Sooner or later every player ends up standing over a pile of loot, agonizing over what to drop. But sometimes, instead...

Physics in Bethesda games has followed its own rules for almost a decade and a half, and players have seen pretty much everything by now. Giants send heroes into orbit, baskets turn into invisible helmets,...

Anyone who has ever played through Resident Evil secretly believes they'd handle a zombie outbreak just as well as Leon Kennedy. Cool-headed reloads, headshots, a snappy one-liner at the end. In reality, most of us...

A gamer going by Pete_Love combined two technologies from completely different eras. He ran Grand Theft Auto 4 from 2008 with Nvidia neural rendering DLSS 5 and pushed the image out to a professional CRT...

The collapse of optical disc drive manufacturing has hit hard the few companies still making premium CD players. American PS Audio has completely stopped production of its flagship transport, while British Naim removed the disc...

A YouTuber known as Lilie has spent more than 700 days in a row clearing the same boss in Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon every single day, filming playthrough videos until Fromsoftware officially announces...

Mass layoffs at Xbox aren't bringing the Microsoft division any closer to its inflated financial targets – they're just adding to the management chaos. That's according to an anonymous id Software employee who survived the...

Apple has equipped iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a variable aperture, a feature mobile photography fans have wanted for a while. The mechanism helps control depth of field more precisely in portraits and...

A YouTuber known as Turned published two videos showing how Logan can leave the game boundaries in Marvel's Wolverine and reach the very edge of the map. No complicated tricks are needed – just climbing...

You can play the first several hours of the World of Warcraft: Forever beta and not even notice that Blizzard changed anything. New quests and NPCs are woven into the early leveling content so carefully...

The industry spent a decade pouring resources into ray tracing, photogrammetry, and neural upscaling, yet water in most games remained a pretty animated texture. You can stare at reflections in a puddle for hours, but...