Cyberpunk 2077 does have cyberpsychosis mechanics after all, and every player ends up reaching it
Cyberpunk tabletop games ran on a simple deal for decades: want metal arms, pay with a piece of your humanity. In Cyberpunk 2077 that deal got quietly dropped, and it turns out that without it...
Games that many gamers refuse to launch even out of curiosity – Tarkov, Rust, Fortnite, PUBG and soulslikes
Refusing to try a game is rarely about taste. More often it comes down to cold calculation: someone already knows how much time, patience, and money a game will demand, and decides not to open...
Gamers are delighted with a graphical bug in Cyberpunk 2077 that lights up the entire city
A bug report on a forum sometimes produces something far more valuable than an actual fix. The owner of a build running an AMD 5800X3D CPU, a 6900XT GPU, and Nobara 44 complained about Cyberpunk...
Reddit user showed 16 years of his life through Red Dead Redemption photos
A Reddit user going by Rybowflavin shared a series of three photos on r/reddeadredemption, posted, showing himself holding boxed copies of Red Dead Redemption 1, 2, and the remaster of the first game over a...
Blizzard has stopped adding personality to new Overwatch heroes, and D.Mon is a great confirmation of that
Cool hero design in Overwatch is one thing. A living personality behind it is a completely different matter. Blizzard keeps stumbling into the same trap, rolling out a hero with a flashy look and a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Warhammer 40,000 experts calculated how many Imperial Titans are needed to take down a Reaper from Mass Effect
Pitting two universes against each other is a favorite pastime for fans, especially when the fight involves combat machines the size of skyscrapers. The premise is simple – how many Imperial Titans from Warhammer 40,000...
A dead Falmer embraces a captive in Dwemer ruins, and it's one of the darkest details in Skyrim
Skyrim has trained players to look for stories where none officially exist. Stumble across a couple of corpses frozen in an unnatural pose, and the brain does the rest, filling in a tragedy complete with...
Physical game sales in the US hit an all-time low
According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, physical game spending in the US totaled just $1.5 billion in 2025 – the lowest figure recorded since tracking began in 1995. Physical games still generate revenue, but the...
Path of Exile's next expansion brings quality-of-life upgrades that PoE 2 desperately needs too
Grinding Gear Games created Path of Exile 2 partly to modernize the original game's systems for newer players and then port some of those improvements – like character animations – back to the first game....
Xbox co-founder thinks Phil Spencer simply burned out trying to do right by games
Xbox co-founder Seamus Blackley thinks now-former Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have simply run out of steam trying to advocate for gaming inside Microsoft. But the person Blackley is most concerned about following the leadership...
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire delayed by nearly a month
Three weeks before launch, Fumi Games and PlaySide announced a delay for MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. The shooter is now set to release on April 16 instead of March 19, with the developers citing the...
EA broke its promise and locked a new Skate area behind a paywall
EA has revealed a big Season 3 roadmap for Skate, but the promising addition of a new map area has been buried in yet more monetization mud. EA not only broke its promise of not...
Bethesda turned the White House into a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 simply because there were no quests planned there
The White House ended up as a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 for a remarkably pragmatic reason – Bethesda's team simply had no quests planned for that location. Lead artist Istvan Pely explained that the...
