An old video of Gabe Newell explaining why Valve will never become a public company that answers to shareholders has gone viral online
An old clip of Gabe Newell has resurfaced online, showing the Valve boss discussing private company ownership and prioritizing employees over shareholders. The clip feels especially relevant given the wave of layoffs sweeping the tech...
The family of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's main character – real monsters
The scariest villains in history are the ones who genuinely believe they're the victim. And when that victim happens to hold a paintbrush capable of creating living people, an ordinary family drama turns into industrial-scale...
Gamers have started reselling RTX 5090 cards they managed to buy before the insane price surge on top-tier graphics cards
Usually hardware behaves predictably: you buy a flagship, it's worth a third less a year later, and by year two you're almost embarrassed to list it for sale. But the GPU market has managed to...
Persona producer believes that creating remakes of the franchise's first and second installments is his personal duty as a developer
Persona series producer Kazuhisa Wada reiterated that remakes of the franchise first two entries will probably eventually happen. According to him, keeping old games accessible for new generations of players is something of a professional...
Afterworld strategy game will let you deal with the elderly and sell children
Paradox Interactive is working on a new strategy game called Afterworld, set in a post-apocalyptic North America. Like other titles from the studio, this game offers players nearly unlimited freedom in building their own society,...
A Crusader Kings 3 player shared a story typical of this strategy game about the biggest war of the Roman Empire, which started because of the emperor's wife's infidelity
Grand strategy games promise epics – crusades, holy wars, standing against the Mongol horde sweeping in from the east. Then it turns out the biggest bloodbath of an entire campaign had nothing to do with...
HoYoverse won $112,000 in a lawsuit against an AI company that copied voices and character designs from Genshin Impact
Another company developing generative AI models has run into the harsh reality of copyright law. This time, an unnamed "AI company" lost in a Shanghai court after illegally copying character voices from Genshin Impact. HoYoverse...
Songs of the Past were made possible thanks to the development of a remaster of the 11-year-old The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fool's Theory revealed that the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt might never have happened without a massive remaster of the base game. Technical limits of the original engine made...
Fans ran Fallout New Vegas through DLSS 5 seven times and got a real nightmare
Anyone who has been anywhere near the gaming space over the past couple of weeks has probably seen folks messing around with DLSS 5, NVIDIA's AI-driven neural rendering tech that pushes games toward photorealism in...
Rusty car turned out to be the most dangerous Predator of the Wasteland in Fallout 4 due to typical Bethesda bugs
Some enemies in games you actually prepare for: you hear a deathclaw roar behind a hill, count your ammo, gear up in power armor. Others make no sound, don't show up on the compass, and...
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...
Old SSDs turned into Steam game cartridges, and it works better than it sounds
Digital libraries took away the shelf full of game boxes and replaced it with a list of icons and endless redownloading. The longing for physical media never really went away, though, and sometimes it takes...
19 years later, a lost part of God of War finally made it to PS2
God of War series has sold tens of millions of copies, spawned remasters, collector editions, and a move to Norse mythology, but one entry spent almost two decades existing only in the memory of flip...
New patch for The Blood of Dawnwalker removed that infamous red pipe and stopped dead people from talking to Coen
Rebel Wolves, the studio founded by CD Projekt RED veterans who worked on The Witcher 3, keeps supporting its vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker with post-launch updates. The game only came out a few...
Invoke Studios head explained why the protagonist of Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons was made a warlock
Invoke Studios head Dominic Guay has shared why the team chose a warlock protagonist for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, explaining that "creative magic" was central to gameplay and story in the upcoming single-player action-adventure game....
Players are unhappy that Marvel's Wolverine is a movie – the game plays scenes for you
Calling out "the game plays itself" is one of the oldest and easiest tricks in game criticism. Cut a twenty second clip of a flashy finisher where the camera swoops around the hero while the...
WoW fans are thrilled with the new lighting, fog, and water in WoW Forever running on Blizzard custom ray tracer
The debate over whether a twenty-year-old game can get a graphics overhaul without losing its identity just got a detailed technical answer. On the second day of BlizzCon, the panel "Evolving a Timeless World" brought...
Players are unhappy that games without a discount are becoming the main faces of Steam sales
Steam sale banners work on simple logic: the bigger the picture, the deeper the discount. So when a specific title stares back at you from the cover of yet another themed event, your brain automatically...
AI GPT-6 Astra mined a diamond in Minecraft overnight by directly controlling a computer
Developer Wuyang Zhou gave GPT-6 Astra one task – mine a diamond in Minecraft – then hit record and went to bed. By morning the diamond sat in the inventory, and the toolkit that made...
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...
