18 years later, Fallout 3 still makes people want to play
The best games sometimes sit in a library for years, bought for pennies in a sale and forgotten. Then one of them suddenly does what neither competitive online shooters nor fresh releases could. A person...
The last trip to Seyda Neen: an elderly gamer decided to replay his beloved Morrowind before he dies and asked the community for advice on which version to install
Some games are played, and others are lived in. Players return to them like a hometown where every crack in the pavement is familiar. For a whole generation, that place is still Vvardenfell, with its...
Skyrim player noticed that Alva from Morthal is different from all the other vampires in the game – fans found a lore explanation for it
The best way to hide a monster is to not hide it at all. That goes double when every other bloodsucker in the area glows like a busted lantern, while one lone vampire strolls around...
Morrowind veterans remind newcomers that there's no rush in this game – you just need to live in it
Nearly every modern open-world RPG runs on the same panic. The world is burning, dragons are in the sky, Oblivion gates are opening right now, and somehow the player spends the evening picking flowers for...
Gamers release first fan film based on Morrowind about young Caius Cosades
Some games don't age, they become religions. There's no other way to explain why, almost 25 years later, people are still crossing the globe with cameras, costumes, and makeup to tell a story about ashstorms...
Modder finally adds full seamless planetary landing to Starfield in the spirit of No Man's Sky
A Starfield fan has released a long-awaited update to a mod that removes one of the most annoying features of the Bethesda game. Players can now enter and leave the atmosphere of any planet without...
Skyrim fans, 15 years after release, still can't stop admiring the game's atmosphere and art design
Nostalgia is the best retoucher there is. Old games look far better in memory than they ever did, and the brain happily fills in details that were never there. The reverse happens too: a game...
Two-seater rover in Starfield turned rescue missions into a comedy
The bigger the game, the more small details slip through the cracks. And when the question of where to seat a rescued survivor goes unanswered across a galaxy of a thousand planets, a minor oversight...
Gamer ran Morrowind on a CRT monitor and called this approach the "optimal gaming configuration" for the game
Nostalgia has a way of rewriting spec sheets after the fact. A hulking monitor the weight of a small dog, one that hummed, flickered, and ate half the desk, somehow becomes the "optimal gaming setup"...
Fallout 4 fan shows sunny screenshot with modern graphics that took several hundred mods and an RTX 5090
The Commonwealth in Fallout 4 was never known for good weather. Leaden skies, a greenish haze, and radiation storms have long been the calling card of postnuclear Boston. Getting a normal, clear day over the...
Serana from Skyrim still delights gamers with her habit of resurrecting goats and chickens in battle instead of experienced warriors
A good RPG companion watches your back, carries your loot, and stays out of the way of your sword. Serana from Skyrim watches your back too, just in her own way: mid-fight, with half a...
Player who always wanted photorealism spent 10 hours in Skyrim and regretted years of waiting
Graphics age faster than anything else in games. One day a title wows with its tech, and the next its screenshots draw a condescending smile. Sometimes the opposite happens, though, and a game nearly fifteen...
Skyrim player accidentally got two Dawnbreakers instead of one and learned from veterans that many clone this sword on purpose
Daedric artifacts in Skyrim are meant to be one of a kind. Each one comes at the end of a long quest, and owning one is supposed to make the hero special. Sometimes, though, the...
Fallout 4 player mocked 2,000-cap closet in Diamond City compared to free penthouse in Nuka-World – and got plenty of arguments why that home is much better
Role-playing games have always followed their own real estate rules. Saving up for a modest place is almost never worth it: wiping out a couple of gangs and taking over their mansion is cheaper and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bethesda shuts down viral AI-made Fallout: New York browser game
A fan-made Fallout: New York built with Claude is no more after its creator received a letter from ZeniMax. The browser game moved Fallout to New York and featured 117 locations, 112 characters, and 46...
Fallout 4 fan used a couple of mods to turn the game into a gritty trench shooter with Warhammer 40k vibes
Every Fallout game opens with a reminder that war never changes, yet the series barely shows players the war itself. The nuclear apocalypse happens offscreen, and the hero emerges into the ruins decades or even...
