WoW developers officially recognized the Paladin as the "Dad Class"
At BlizzCon, developers got asked about their favorite classes, and one answer spread across the internet pretty fast. Game designer Josh Greenfield confirmed to GameSpot what the community has been joking about for years –...
Skyrim fans shared the locations where they retire their Dovahkins
Big RPGs have an annoying quirk: they never really end. You kill the main villain, the world cheerfully announces it's been saved, and then invites you to keep collecting butterflies – so you're left to...
The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past scriptwriter wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone – is the story in good hands?
If you need proof that real fans are working on The Witcher 3's new expansion, here's one: the lead writer of Songs of the Past wrote her thesis analyzing "Hearts of Stone" almost a decade...
Billionaire Gabe Newell formulated a universal rule three years ago about what makes games interesting – and realism has nothing to do with it
A clip from the Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary is making the rounds online again, with Valve boss Gabe Newell breaking down the role of realism in games. Newell opens with a familiar scene from design...
Bethesda veteran with 20 years of experience and The Elder Scrolls lore expert has been unable to find a job for months
Kurt Kuhlmann, one of the key designers at Bethesda Game Studios and known among fans as the "lore master" of The Elder Scrolls, publicly announced he's looking for work. The industry veteran got caught up...
Crusader Kings 3 player complained that the AI engaged his heir grandson to a 58-year-old widow – but it turned out that other gamers often do the same thing themselves
A medieval dynasty simulator promises full control over bloodlines, marriages, and succession. Until one day a player discovers that their grandson – and future heir – has already been betrothed to a widow old enough...
Valve quietly changed the Steam storefront, and indie developers are seeing traffic increase several times over
Steam discoverability has been a headache for years, with dozens of new releases hitting the storefront daily and making it easy for a lesser-known indie title to vanish. But according to analysts and publishers alike,...
Blizzard confirmed Protoss in the StarCraft shooter and pointed out where to find them in the trailer
The debut trailer for the new StarCraft shooter focused entirely on terrans and zerg, leaving fans wondering what happened to the third race. Dan Hay, general manager and creative director on the game, confirmed to...
Daniel Vavra showed 4 versions of the heroine's face from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 in the DLSS 5 debate
Daniel Vavra returned to the DLSS 5 debate once again, calling the panic surrounding the technology overblown. The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 creative director posted a side-by-side comparison using Katherine, the game character played by...
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...
