A Stellaris player asked if it's normal to have only three wins in 400 hours – and found out that's actually a lot
In grand strategy games, the victory screen has become a rare artifact that plenty of players have never actually seen. It is a genre where hundreds of hours logged offer zero guarantee that anyone will...
NASA astronaut shows how the switch to LED lighting changed Earth's cities as seen from orbit
NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a series of photos showing how cities around the world have changed in recent years after switching from sodium lamps to LED lighting. Across 23 years and four missions to...
A Fallout 76 fan visited the real-life Whitespring resort and the bunker beneath it and was amazed by its resemblance to locations in the game
Virtual locations usually fall apart the moment you compare them to the real thing – proportions are off, the staircase is in the wrong place, and a luxury lobby turns out to be a box...
Andrew Garfield's tracksuit from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" sold for $2650
A production practice suit worn by Andrew Garfield on the set of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has sold at auction for $2,650. According to the listing, the suit was worn directly during filming, which is...
Soldiers and androids in first behind-the-scenes footage from season 2 of Alien: Earth
FX and Hulu have released the first behind-the-scenes footage from season two of Alien: Earth – shots and photos confirm that production on the sequel has officially begun. Noah Hawley created the series and remains...
Amazon canceled Spider-Noir starring Nicolas Cage after one season
The Spider-Noir series from Prime Video and MGM won't get a second season. The show got the axe after just eight episodes, even though it was considered one of the platform's biggest hits this year....
Popular streamer refused to advertise ARC Raiders for a six-figure sum in dollars – but agreed for a seven-figure one
Popular streamer TimTheTatman revealed what it would take for him to go back to ARC Raiders, and the number he mentioned is impressive even by influencer industry standards. He'd previously been offered an ad deal...
A Crusader Kings 3 veteran finally finished a campaign for the first time in 2,000 hours – eight rulers with god‑like traits were enough to last 586 years
Paradox grand strategy games are built so the final date barely matters. Fans start a campaign with excitement, turn into a land-grabbing machine by the midpoint, then start a new save the moment an heir...
Fallout 4 veteran stumbles upon a random encounter with Skinny Malone for the first time in three thousand hours
Sparing an enemy in Bethesda games usually just means saving a few bullets and picking up a tiny bit of experience. But every once in a while, mercy pays off hundreds of hours later in...
A Crusader Kings 3 player fell into despair after having six daughters in a row and asked the community for advice
Paradox strategy games like to pretend that everything comes down to calculation and patience, and then the random number generator shows up and burns fifty years of planning in a single child-birth screen. Sometimes it...
UN votes for a new world map Instead of Mercator – it enlarges Africa and shrinks Greenland
The UN General Assembly has voted to move away from the traditional world map in favor of a projection that more accurately reflects the real size of Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution, put forward...
During the filming of the Tomb Raider series with Sophie Turner, Britain's safety rules were violated many times
The UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has ruled that production on Amazon MGM Studios' Tomb Raider series broke workplace safety laws during filming at Shinfield Studios earlier this year. Deadline reports that Project Temple...
Enthusiast created a stunning bookshelf door for his wife styled like a hobbit home from The Lord of the Rings
Love for fictional worlds sometimes goes beyond posters on the wall or figurines on a shelf – it starts literally reshaping the house. A round door, green grass on the roof, a smoking pipe by...
Major Star Wars releases in September – Andor prequel, a book of insults, and the first canon horror
September is stacking up to be a big month for Star Wars fans: Disney gets a new Mandalorian special, bookstores receive a direct prequel novel to Andor, and comic adaptations for both Kylo Ren and...
Rusty after 286 days at sea, the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln reminded Fallout 3 players of Rivet City
USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into the port of Laem Chabang near Pattaya after 286 days without a full port call, including 208 straight days at sea. Paint on the massive hull had worn down to...
Court allows Take-Two to obtain personal data of Discord users who may be involved in the GTA 6 leak
Judge Andrew L. Carter has granted Take-Two Interactive request for a new subpoena, one that would require Discord to hand over more detailed information about users tied to the GTA 6 leak. In his ruling,...
Sam Raimi could have made a The Last of Us movie starring a "Game of Thrones" star
HBO's The Last of Us wasn't the first attempt to bring the Naughty Dog story to the screen. Back in 2014, Spider-Man and Evil Dead director Sam Raimi was in talks to make a feature...
A detective conducted an entire investigation to understand why his PC turns off when he leans back in his gaming chair
Diagnosing random computer crashes usually starts with the obvious suspects – the power supply, RAM, the graphics card. Stress tests pass, temperatures stay normal, drivers are up to date, and yet the PC keeps blacking...
According to Sony's lawyers, any reasonable buyer understands that digital PlayStation games are not owned by them
Sony has landed in the middle of a legal fight where the company's own lawyers argue that PlayStation customers who buy digital games never actually own them, and that no reasonable person should think otherwise....
YouTuber created an exact replica of Whiterun from Skyrim using 80,000 LEGO pieces
Fan builds based on video games happen all the time, but once in a while something comes along that makes even people indifferent to LEGO stop and stare. That's the effect a massive LEGO recreation...
