4A Games has made ray tracing mandatory in Metro 2039, and it can't be turned off
The rendering engine in Metro 2039 got rebuilt from scratch around ray tracing, and the graphics settings menu won't have a toggle for it. 4A Games executive producer John Bloch told WCCFTech that the game...
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...
Why the Power Armor in Fallout Was Translated into Spanish as Servo Armor
Localizing science fiction isn't really translation – it's more like inventing names from scratch. A term that sounds mundane and technical in English can easily turn into pompous nonsense straight out of a kids cartoon...
New trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros reveals Arya Stark and The Mountain
PlaySide Studios released a hero reveal trailer for the PC strategy game Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, this time putting Arya Stark in the spotlight. The clip shows off the deadly assassin skills she...
How "potato PCs" with 4 GB of RAM survive into 2026 and what OS they run on
The concept of a "weak computer" has drifted so far over the past decade that hardly anyone agrees on where the line sits anymore. Machines with 32GB of memory, eight-core Xeons, and a GTX 1080...
Rockstar showed 3 hours of GTA 6 gameplay – details and impressions from a preview participant
Rockstar Games flew the host of the TGG channel from Australia to Edinburgh for an early look at GTA 6, well ahead of the public release. At the Rockstar North office, the studio showed him...
Gamer completes the Underground storyline in Fallout 4 for the first time after 300 hours and is stunned by the grim finale
Video games rarely punish you for winning. Usually it's the opposite: credits roll, you get a reward, your allies are happy, and there's a sense of accomplishment. So it hit one player especially hard, having...
The Witcher 3 fan compared a shot of Gaunter O'Dimm from the original and the remaster – in the reissue the image got worse due to lighting
Remasters almost always try to sell the same idea: what was dark and murky is now bright and clean. The problem is that in games, "dark and murky" is often not a bug – it's...
PS2 owner filmed a dramatic video about the graphics chip failing right during a race
A short clip filmed by a CRT gaming enthusiast starts out as a regular race down a coastal track. Then the yellow car and the surrounding environment start breaking apart into polygons, textures slide off...
Hidetaka Miyazaki didn't want to create ordinary vampires, so the creatures from The Duskbloods will have their own unique design and story
Hidetaka Miyazaki, legendary FromSoftware director, talked about the principles behind character creation in The Duskbloods. According to the developer, the studio is deliberately moving away from traditional notions of vampires and monsters, favoring a broader...
The Elder Scrolls Skyrim with 1800 mods looks like a next-gen gacha
Mods for The Elder Scrolls Skyrim have no ceiling – only the limits of your hardware and your taste. You start by upgrading grass textures, and a year later you've got 1800 plugins installed, Helgen...
12 minutes of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 remake gameplay in 4K
Ubisoft released an extended 4K gameplay demonstration of Heroes of Might and Magic III Remake following the announcement at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The footage shows adventure map exploration, resource gathering, town development, creature recruitment,...
Ubisoft announced a remake of Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Ubisoft announced a remake of the beloved Heroes of Might and Magic III during gamescom. You can already wishlist it on Steam. The remaster will include all three campaigns – Restoration of Erathia, Armageddon's Blade,...
The upcoming expansion for The Witcher 3 will feature Geralt's canonical weapon from the books for the first time – a silver chain
At Gamescom, CD Projekt Red finally revealed the long-awaited teaser trailer for the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3. The biggest surprise came from the weapon in Geralt hands – a silver...
Patch 4.040.200 for The Witcher 3 released, giving away the first two expansions for free, plus a full list of remaster features
CD Projekt RED released update 4.040.200 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt right after announcing the free remaster at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The patch is already live, while the remaster itself won't arrive until...
A Fallout 4 fan reminded us that fisticuffs isn't just a fun and spectacular way to play, but also a very effective method of completing the game even in survival mode
Melee combat in a post-apocalyptic wasteland already sounds like something for people who've given up on caution. Going up against raiders and super mutants with your bare fists, on survival difficulty, where a single burst...
The Elder Scrolls 6 will keep Skyrim's famous cheese physics – but Bethesda needs to find a use for it
The Elder Scrolls 6, rumored to carry the subtitle Sentinel, was teased back in 2019, and a release date remains a mystery. One of the few confirmed details concerns the technical foundation – the game...
Skyrim fans reminded that fire arrows and paralysis turn bandits into ballistic projectiles
Physics in Bethesda games rarely behaves the way developers intended. But sometimes two harmless elements combine into something that sends an enemy flying past the horizon faster than they can process what just happened. The...
Mortal Shell 2 has typical optimization for a game on Unreal Engine 5 – the game suffers from stutters and Lumen issues
DSOGaming continues putting new releases through their paces, and this time the outlet turned its attention to Mortal Shell 2, the souls-like built on Unreal Engine 5.2. Testing was done on a rig featuring an...
What Games Should Still Be Added to the Perfect 2000s Gamer Desktop
Any attempt to build a complete list of games from an entire era ends the same way – someone always finds a gap the size of Homeworld. And when the topic is Windows 95 and...
