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...
After PlayStation's claims that games don't belong to buyers, disappointed fans compiled a list of 34 examples where Sony said otherwise
Sony is facing a class action lawsuit claiming that PlayStation Store language misleads users about what they're actually buying. The company insists digital games are licensed rather than sold, even though the PlayStation Store interface...
Athlete proves the reality of the controversial backflip from the GTA 6 trailer
In last month's extended GTA 6 trailer, fans found a moment that has been dissected frame by frame and turned into a meme. The scene shows Jason doing a running backflip off a pier and...
In six weeks, AI built on the Godot engine created a full-fledged fishing game
Indie developer Hakim Eiqbal has released the first downloadable build of a fishing game he's building entirely with AI. The project started as an experiment and by week six turned into a playable build available...
A player in Europa Universalis 5 completed a legendary achievement of the entire franchise and conquered the whole world as Ryukyu
Developers of grand strategy games love to insist that conquering the entire map in their titles is impossible – the mechanics won't allow it, the economy will collapse, control will tank. That claim usually holds...
Japanese modder launched DLSS 5 together with ENB in Fallout 4 – the game now looks like a photograph
A Japanese player going by ピピ (pipi_rossa) got DLSS 5 and the ENB graphics mod running together in Fallout 4. The two have historically clashed since both hook into frame post-processing. Turns out the fix...
Fallout 4 fans recalled the best companion interactions – Strong and Hancock, and Danse and Valentine are the most memorable
Companions in Fallout 4 usually exist for two reasons: carrying loot and soaking up bullets meant for the hero. But what actually sticks in people's memory isn't their combat stats – it's the moment a...
STALKER 2 receives patch 2.0.5 with over 200 fixes
GSC Game World shows no signs of slowing down support for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, even after the successful launch of its first story DLC, "The Price of Hope." Shortly after the expansion arrived, the studio rolled...
Gamers laugh at fans of realism in GTA 6 who will need sun visors on the windshield
The desire for realism in open-world games has long crossed the line where immersion ends and simulation of daily chores begins. First it's filling the tank with gas, then turn signals and seatbelts, and it's...
Gamers crashed Wardogs servers on the very first day of early access – developers partially blame Valve
Wardogs, a 100-player milsim FPS, launched in Steam early access and instantly became a hit. The game topped Steam's global sales chart, and its player count blew past 300,000 concurrent users right away. Not everyone...
Players are unhappy with how Bethesda is handling their beloved The Elder Scrolls franchise – a collaboration with IKEA instead of DLCs and a new game
Brand collaborations in games stopped being a pleasant novelty a long time ago. But there is a difference between a pop star showing up in a shooter and a game about Nordic dragons getting its...
Second Chance – Games That Don't Click at First but Become Masterpieces
Game quality gets treated like a fixed value, similar to weight or length. In practice it depends on mood, age, tiredness, and how much sleep you got, so the same game can feel like dull...
