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...
Gamer spent three hours in Skyrim's tutorial dungeon to grind hapless Ralof up to level 81
Any RPG with a leveling system eventually runs into a player who finds more joy in breaking the mechanics than following the story. And when the system can be broken without even leaving the tutorial...
Fallout 4 fans recalled the best companion interactions – Strong and Hancock, and Danse and Valentine are the most memorable
Companions in Fallout 4 usually exist for two reasons: carrying loot and soaking up bullets meant for the hero. But what actually sticks in people's memory isn't their combat stats – it's the moment a...
Players are unhappy with how Bethesda is handling their beloved The Elder Scrolls franchise – a collaboration with IKEA instead of DLCs and a new game
Brand collaborations in games stopped being a pleasant novelty a long time ago. But there is a difference between a pop star showing up in a shooter and a game about Nordic dragons getting its...
A Fallout 4 fan noticed that Desdemona from the Railroad crosses out the player's name from the list of living agents immediately after teleporting into the Institute
Usually a hero dies in an RPG behind a loading screen, and the world around them never even notices. Much creepier is the other version, where you're alive, well, and locked inside a suit of...
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...
Skyrim fans continue to argue about which playstyle is more effective and spectacular – the stealth archer or the sneaky throat-slitter
Fifteen years after release, Skyrim players are still finding ways to work around the combat system in ways Bethesda probably never intended. The "stealth archer" meme has long been a series trademark, but more and...
Skyrim player pulled dragon armor from a chest at level 24 and was surprised to learn how the Anniversary Edition broke progression
Any RPG runs on a simple rule – first you fight in rags and rusty scraps, and only later do you earn the right to wear something legendary. That formula breaks instantly the moment a...
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...
Here's what real dishes from Skyrim look like in real life
Virtual food in games usually exists just to top off a health bar or tweak character stats. But spend enough time staring at the texture details on plates in Skyrim, and sooner or later a...
Some Fallout 4 fans were surprised to learn that the game is literally packed with references to Blade Runner
A good science fiction setting rarely exists in a vacuum – it always builds on the shoulders of genre classics. But when a game manages to weave in not just a reference, but an entire...
15 years later, Skyrim fans noticed that Todd Howard was playing a fully leveled mage during the demo
The E3 2011 demo for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been quoted to death over the years, with Todd Howard mountain line still standing as the most famous bit. Fifteen years later, fans went...
Bethesda veterans were laid off in two-minute meetings – neither Skyrim nor Fallout saved decades-long careers
Bethesda is among the many game studios affected by the ongoing mass layoffs at Xbox, which are set to cut 3,200 jobs by the end of the 2027 fiscal year. At least 1,600 employees have...
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...
Fallout fans wondered how characters manage to see anything through the power armor helmet
When artists design battle armor for the far future, aesthetics almost always win out over ergonomics. The result tends to be the same: a mighty warrior in an impenetrable suit whose head physically cannot look...
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...
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...
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....
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...
