Owner of a handheld console connected an RTX 5080 to it and asked if it's time to build a proper PC
A hybrid rig combining a premium handheld and a desktop graphics card worth roughly three and a half thousand dollars has racked up hundreds of comments and split opinions right down the middle. The owner...
Gamer showed a typical morning in Skyrim after a couple of mods – with Soviet T-34-85 tanks and bomber dragons
Modding Skyrim stopped being about "tweak some textures and add a couple of swords" a long time ago. Fourteen years after release, the community keeps stress-testing Bethesda engine, and every time it turns out there's...
Fallout 4 fan raised an odd question – how many years of cleaning would it take Codsworth to turn the Wasteland from a dump into a decent place to live
The Mr. Handy robot butler series was built for suburban household chores – mowing the lawn, wiping down countertops, cooking dinner. Sending one of these things to clean up a ransacked amusement park where three...
Hearts of Iron 4 fan got so immersed in the strategy game that he started seeing Hungary in his cat after the First Vienna Award
Long strategy games do something strange to the brain: it stops seeing the world map as just a map. First you memorize the shapes of countries, then the resource provinces, and at some point your...
Oblivion and Skyrim have completely different types of thieves guilds – how The Elder Scrolls changed its attitude toward crime
Factions in RPGs rarely amount to just a set of quests. A guild is a way to explore a world from the inside, through the profession and morality of the people who survive in it....
Crusader Kings 3 player created a copy of himself – but gamers were more impressed by the real photo of the chad author
Character creators exist for pretty much one reason – to let people make themselves a little better looking than they actually are. Higher cheekbones, a sharper jawline, none of the asymmetry only the bathroom mirror...
Kit Harington will play Gilderoy Lockhart in the 'Harry Potter' series instead of Nicholas Hoult
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is returning to HBO for another big fantasy production. The actor will play vain author and Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart in Season 2 of Harry...
After the free remaster of The Witcher 3 was announced, most gamers once again calling CD Projekt RED the best studio in the universe
Games industry has trained everyone to expect a familiar cycle – a studio ships a broken game, collects money from preorders, quietly patches critical bugs for six months, then moves on to the next title....
"Avengers: Endgame" is preparing to surpass $3 billion at the box office – partly thanks to new color grading
Re-releases stopped being a nostalgic nod to classics a while ago and turned into their own revenue stream. Studios bring films back for anniversaries, for sequels, for basically any excuse, and now they're also tweaking...
A gamer paid his last respects to a Skyrim disc from the 2011 midnight release – after 15 years of continuous use, it stopped reading
Physical media collectors love to repeat that a disc can't be deleted from a server and stays with its owner forever. Optical media doesn't know about that promise, and it falls apart on its own...
Footage of the flood on the border of Nepal and Tibet showed how a wall of water swept away villages, bridges and power plants
A massive flash flood tore through the Bhote Koshi riverbed in Nepal's Rasuwa district on the morning of August 26, wiping out villages, roads, and hydroelectric plants along the way. Authorities confirmed at least eight...
Gamer completes the Underground storyline in Fallout 4 for the first time after 300 hours and is stunned by the grim finale
Video games rarely punish you for winning. Usually it's the opposite: credits roll, you get a reward, your allies are happy, and there's a sense of accomplishment. So it hit one player especially hard, having...
Premiere of Lanterns on HBO Max turned out to be more successful than The Penguin and Peacemaker
Lanterns from DC Studios kicked off with strong numbers, beating out other major releases on the platform. Over its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, the series pulled in 9.3 million viewers globally...
Female pilot lands plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida coast and swims away without a scratch
A 23-year-old pilot named Faith Tenkley has shared details about the emergency water landing she survived off the coast of Florida, after which she managed to swim to shore without a scratch on her. Tenkley...
Skyrim fans reminded that fire arrows and paralysis turn bandits into ballistic projectiles
Physics in Bethesda games rarely behaves the way developers intended. But sometimes two harmless elements combine into something that sends an enemy flying past the horizon faster than they can process what just happened. The...
8 years later, Marvel fans are once again arguing about how Thanos knew Tony Stark's name
A short exchange on Titan from Avengers: Infinity War keeps popping up in discussions eight years after the movie premiered. As you probably remember, Thanos addresses the hero by his last name, Stark asks in...
Fans confirm that the leaked GTA 6 map is 100% accurate
A community of enthusiasts, who spent years reconstructing the GTA 6 map frame by frame, has gone through material from this week's leak. Members compared the leaked image against their own version of the open...
Gamer created a handy guide for finding all the Barenziah Stones in Skyrim and claims you'll "definitely thank him later"
Some quests are memorable for their story, and some are memorable for making players grab a notebook. "Thank Me Later" falls into the second category: two dozen identical purple stones scattered across Skyrim without a...
PC gamer showed a flooded basement with a gaming station and got a list of protective measures
This photo shows one of the scariest nightmares for anyone who decided to turn their basement into a gaming room. The image shows a man in fishing waders sitting in a gaming chair in the...
Creators of Project "Hail Mary" spent weeks approving flags – Russia, India, and China are missing from the merchandise
Getting into space might actually be easier than getting flag approvals for a mission patch. The creators of Project "Hail Mary" shared some details on the process. The patch for the Hail Mary spacecraft in...
