A Fallout 4 player noticed the Children of Atom symbol on Vault 81's Tina's forehead and came up with a whole backstory before finding out it was just a bug
A tenth playthrough of the same game works like a magnifying glass: the story gets memorized by heart, dialogue gets skipped on reflex, but the eye suddenly latches onto some tiny detail that got ignored...
Saber Interactive's director knows how to avoid layoffs – you need to give up expensive American cities and work on 5-6 small games simultaneously with AAA titles
Layoffs have become a constant fixture in gaming industry news. Even if the pace of cuts has slowed down somewhat in 2026, their severity hasn't lessened. In July, Microsoft made 1600 staff redundant as part...
Skyrim player realized he was an idiot when he enchanted a helmet with water breathing while playing as an Argonian
Long RPG sessions put the brain on autopilot – hands craft, enchant, and sort loot faster than the mind can ask "why." Usually that ends with three hundred spare arrows lying around. Sometimes, though, it...
Ten years later, Fallout 4 players noticed they'd been picking safes without keyholes with bobby pins the whole time
There's a special kind of discovery that happens on the thousandth hour in a familiar game. Not a secret location or a hidden dialogue option, but the sudden realization that a mechanic you've been using...
It took a Skyrim newcomer 15 hours and a talking dog Barbas to understand why people love the game
A short post from a newcomer describing the moment Skyrim finally "clicked" serves as a good reminder of what makes the game so magical. A player going by SeaInRain spent about fifteen hours in Skyrim,...
Skyrim fans shared the locations where they retire their Dovahkins
Big RPGs have an annoying quirk: they never really end. You kill the main villain, the world cheerfully announces it's been saved, and then invites you to keep collecting butterflies – so you're left to...
Bethesda veteran with 20 years of experience and The Elder Scrolls lore expert has been unable to find a job for months
Kurt Kuhlmann, one of the key designers at Bethesda Game Studios and known among fans as the "lore master" of The Elder Scrolls, publicly announced he's looking for work. The industry veteran got caught up...
Crusader Kings 3 player complained that the AI engaged his heir grandson to a 58-year-old widow – but it turned out that other gamers often do the same thing themselves
A medieval dynasty simulator promises full control over bloodlines, marriages, and succession. Until one day a player discovers that their grandson – and future heir – has already been betrothed to a widow old enough...
A Crusader Kings 3 player shared a story typical of this strategy game about the biggest war of the Roman Empire, which started because of the emperor's wife's infidelity
Grand strategy games promise epics – crusades, holy wars, standing against the Mongol horde sweeping in from the east. Then it turns out the biggest bloodbath of an entire campaign had nothing to do with...
The events of Avatar: Seven Havens will unfold in a post-apocalyptic world 225 years after The Legend of Korra
Avatar creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko shared new details about the upcoming animated series Avatar: Seven Havens. The idea for a follow-up to The Legend of Korra featuring an earthbending Avatar first came...
Songs of the Past were made possible thanks to the development of a remaster of the 11-year-old The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fool's Theory revealed that the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt might never have happened without a massive remaster of the base game. Technical limits of the original engine made...
Amazing video of a flight over the Sahara led to an analysis of dune geometry
A video shot through a plane window over the Sahara shows perfectly even rows of dunes stretching to the horizon with no landmark in sight. The pattern repeats so precisely that the first wave of...
Fallout 4 fan showed how to turn a supermarket shopping cart into an equivalent of power armor using Bethesda's famous game physics
Power armor in Fallout 4 is presented as the pinnacle of pre-war engineering – nuclear cores, servomotors, a dedicated entry animation. But the most reliable shield in the Commonwealth turns out to be a rusty...
After PlayStation's claims that games don't belong to buyers, disappointed fans compiled a list of 34 examples where Sony said otherwise
Sony is facing a class action lawsuit claiming that PlayStation Store language misleads users about what they're actually buying. The company insists digital games are licensed rather than sold, even though the PlayStation Store interface...
A player in Europa Universalis 5 completed a legendary achievement of the entire franchise and conquered the whole world as Ryukyu
Developers of grand strategy games love to insist that conquering the entire map in their titles is impossible – the mechanics won't allow it, the economy will collapse, control will tank. That claim usually holds...
Blizzard released the Forsaken Kingdom campaign for Warcraft III Reforged with 30 hours of gameplay
Blizzard released Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom without any prior announcement, marking the first new campaign for Warcraft III: Reforged in 23 years. The launch happened right during the BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony, and the...
Sent an RTX 4090 in for warranty service and got back money from 2023
Warranty coverage is supposed to work as insurance against trouble, but in a world where graphics cards get more expensive faster than they wear out, it can end up working against the owner instead. A...
Marvel is preparing a large-scale continuation of the Punisher story with Jon Bernthal
Marvel may be plotting a much bigger expansion of Punisher lore. A new report suggests the character's next chapter will skip the one-off special format entirely. According to insiders, a follow-up to the Disney special...
South Park creators renamed the series to South America for the new season
South Park is going through an unusual rebrand. After winning the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced they're changing the name of the show to "SOUTH AMERICA." In their...
iPhone Duo hands-on impressions – 7.6-inch screen, under-display camera, and a fold in the center
It's been almost 10 years since the iPhone X set the design language for Apple's flagships, and the company hasn't released such an unconventional gadget since. The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable smartphone, and...
