Crimson Desert turned out to be so successful that Pearl Abyss paid additional cash bonuses to a thousand employees
Crimson Desert has become one of the most talked-about games of 2026. Pearl Abyss earned roughly $200 million in the first two weeks of sales, and the game's Steam rating climbed past "Very Positive" with...
An investigation into The Last of Us remake showed that Naughty Dog fixed the windows and extra balls, but hid the moon and forgot about the turbine on the dam
In the dockside industrial zone from the opening of The Last of Us, there's a brick building with five second-floor windows arranged in a two-one-two pattern. Each window is nearly square and divided into 16...
FromSoftware managed to fit the entire plot of Elden Ring into a few seconds of the new Tarnished Edition trailer
FromSoftware and Bandai Namco have released a new story trailer for Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition on Nintendo Switch 2. The release is set for August 28. The trailer revisits key story beats: the Elden Ring...
Hardcore shooter Wardogs became a Steam bestseller after a list of 10 reasons not to buy it
Developers must be pretty confident in their game when they are willing to list every reason not to buy it. That is exactly what Bulkhead did in the latest dev log for Wardogs, a tactical...
Skyrim fan only learned after 200 hours in the game that he was supposed to sleep in a bed
Spending hundreds of hours in an open world without noticing an entire mechanic sounds like a bug, but in Skyrim it's just a natural result of how the game treats sleep. Rest isn't required for...
How to save a car you like in Cyberpunk 2077
Spotting the car of your dreams on the streets of Night City is easy. Actually keeping it is a different story. Cyberpunk 2077 isn't GTA, and yanking the driver out of their seat won't let...
Players with hundreds of hours in Crimson Desert have figured out why the RPG looks like both a graphics benchmark and a release from 2015
Shimmering puddles and 4K armor, blurred foliage during the four-to-five a.m. and six-to-eight p.m. windows, a trail behind wyvern wings against the clouds... That's the list of complaints one player compiled after 200 hours in...
Cyberpunk 2077 fans appreciated the concept of Johnny Silverhand through millennia, from a cave painting to "Star Wars"
The success of Cyberpunk 2077 was built on more than just Night City neon and Johnny Silverhand rock-and-roll terrorism. A lot of it came down to a near-universal rebellion formula, where the whole point is...
Why the Alliance didn't care about the millions of abducted colonists in Mass Effect 2
Space colonization in the Mass Effect universe works in a way that part of humanity flat out refuses to live under the Systems Alliance umbrella. People head out to the Terminus frontier specifically so the...
Dozens of different Xenomorphs in the new Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 trailer
Daybreak Games and Cold Iron Studios have revealed a new trailer for Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, confirming along the way that the game is heading to Nintendo Switch 2. That version arrives later this year,...
Players have chosen the highest quality trilogies in the gaming industry – Mass Effect, God of War, Metal Gear Solid, and Batman: Arkham are leading
There's a special category of game series where you don't have to pick a favorite entry. Three games in a row turn out so consistent in quality that debating the best one becomes a pleasant...
Gamers are happy for those who are starting Mass Effect for the first time, and chose the most memorable moments from the game
Playing through a cult trilogy for the first time is a rare kind of luck, and longtime fans openly envy it. When someone sits down with the original Mass Effect without knowing a single plot...
Diablo 2 researcher discovered that the cathedral's stained glass windows from the fourth act turned out to be monsters, and they can be broken
A breakdown of strange locations in Diablo II made veterans with twenty-five years of experience admit that some of these spots they'd never actually seen. This isn't about hidden levels, but objects players ran past...
Devolver Digital goes private after 95 percent stock crash
When indie publisher Devolver, known for Hotline Miami, The Talos Principle, and Baby Steps, announced its stock market debut, the move already seemed odd at the time. In 2021, listing on the London Stock Exchange's...
Larian showed 10 rarest endings of Baldur's Gate 3, including the worst fates of Lae'zel and Astarion
Larian senior community manager Aiofe Wilson showcased 10 extremely rare endings and moments from Baldur's Gate 3, packing a surprising number of unexpected plot twists into just a few minutes of footage.Spoilers for Baldur's Gate...
New Total War: Warhammer 40,000 gameplay showcases an extended battle between Orks and the Imperium
IGN published an extensive gameplay video for Total War: Warhammer 40,000, currently in development by Creative Assembly. In the video, developers walk through a full battle between Orks and Astra Militarum forces, showing off several...
A sister recommended Red Dead Redemption 2 to her brother, but regretted this decision after he decided to skip all the cutscenes
Playing through a favorite game together sounds like the perfect bonding activity. In practice, it can turn into quiet torture if the person sitting next to you treats story-driven titles like an obstacle course to...
Skyscraper in Mongolia turned out to be a copy of the PS5 long before its announcement
Sometimes architecture beats industrial design to the punch by a decade or more. The clearest example shows up when a glass and concrete office tower ends up mirroring the silhouette of a gaming console that...
Actor who played a key character in GTA 5 sent over 60 applications for a role in GTA 6 and never got a response
Robert Bogue, who played agent Steve Haines in Grand Theft Auto 5, recently opened up about his frustration with Rockstar Games. According to the actor, he auditioned for more than 60 roles in Grand Theft...
Gamers chose the Fallout faction they would join if survival depended on common sense
The eternal question of the Fallout universe sounds noble on paper – which side would you fight for if you actually landed in the post-nuclear wasteland? Strip away the idealism, though, and think it through...
