Google mapped the fruit fly's brain with 166,000 neurons, and engineers immediately ran Doom on it
Google Research announced the completion of work neuroscientists had been waiting decades for. For the first time, the brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly have been fully mapped. The model...
A mod brings DLSS 5 neural rendering to a second GPU and almost eliminates the 50–60% performance drop
Developer Marcelo Guibout published on GitHub an add-on for ReShade called mgpu_bridge, which offloads DLSS 5 neural rendering workloads to a second graphics card in the system. This approach almost entirely eliminates the massive frame...
Age of Empires 2 newcomer's idea to build gates around the town center was mocked
The idea looks simple enough. Surround the town center with four gates so no free tile remains underneath for enemy troops to stand on. The player who posted the concept in the Age of Empires...
Players think Two Fingers from Elden Ring reference the legendary way of positioning fingers on a gamepad for playing soulslikes
Sometimes the most convincing lore theory doesn't need a single line of item description text or an hour spent rereading dialogue. All it takes is looking down from the screen to your own hands resting...
AI GPT-6 Astra assembled an isometric Diablo-style game under 2MB in size and shot a trailer for it
Designer Meng To, founder of the Design Code learning platform, showed off an isometric RPG built entirely by GPT-6 Astra. The model didn't just write the code in Three.js – it also recreated every scene...
Player completed Red Dead Redemption 2 a second time and realized they had missed half the game the first time
A player going by bushGiant shared thoughts after replaying Red Dead Redemption 2, noting how much his perception of the game shifted the second time around. The first playthrough happened on a borrowed PS4, and...
Valve requires old CD key from Half-Life 2 to return the player's old account
A Steam account owner whose account was registered more than a decade ago ran into a lockdown over suspicious activity. To prove ownership, he sent Steam Support old email addresses, past passwords, the last four...
Gamers recommend the best games for a depressive mood – Elden Ring and Shadow of the Colossus top the list
When life feels heavy, a gamer basically has two contradictory prescriptions, and both work. Either dive headfirst into melancholy, into the fog, the empty ruins, and the lonely hero nobody thanks for anything, or fire...
800 hours in the Capital Wasteland – why Fallout 3 is still considered the best game in the series
The debate over the best Fallout game has turned into something like a religious ritual at this point: every couple of years someone brings it up again, and the whole cycle starts over. Sometimes it...
Crusader Kings 3 player showed a screenshot of an epic battle after which only one warrior remained on the battlefield
Medieval strategy games have a habit of dressing up disasters as triumphs in their post-battle screens. The result flashes a proud "victory," but look closer at the numbers and you'll often find nothing left but...
A Fallout 76 fan visited the real-life Whitespring resort and the bunker beneath it and was amazed by its resemblance to locations in the game
Virtual locations usually fall apart the moment you compare them to the real thing – proportions are off, the staircase is in the wrong place, and a luxury lobby turns out to be a box...
Court dismissed $341,000 lawsuit against Nintendo over denial of Pokémon professor status
A federal judge has dismissed a case brought by an Iowa man who demanded $341,000 in compensation from Nintendo and The Pokemon Company after being denied a "Pokemon Professor" certification. The judge called the lawsuit...
Streamer taught viewers how to call CJ's phone in GTA San Andreas live during the stream
Streamer Kreyg has built a custom Twitch integration for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that lets viewers call CJ's in-game phone. The system uses the original phone-answering animation – CJ pulls out his phone, and...
Rebel Wolves named 4 main problems of The Blood of Dawnwalker on PC and suggested temporary fixes
Vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker launched with a handful of technical issues on PC. Rebel Wolves, a studio made up of CD Projekt RED veterans, has already published a list of the most common...
In GTA 6, the minimap shows in advance which buildings can be visited, and aloe contains liters of water
Open worlds stopped impressing players with size alone a while back – now everyone wants to know what in the environment actually works and what is just there for show. Rockstar apparently found a simple...
Rockstar changed the sprint button in GTA 6 after almost 25 years of tradition
Grand Theft Auto has kept one of its most recognizable control quirks for almost 25 years – sprinting by tapping a face button on the controller. Starting with GTA 3, players had to mash X...
Skyrim fans continue to argue about which playstyle is more effective and spectacular – the stealth archer or the sneaky throat-slitter
Fifteen years after release, Skyrim players are still finding ways to work around the combat system in ways Bethesda probably never intended. The "stealth archer" meme has long been a series trademark, but more and...
No Man's Sky became the first game where DLSS 5 impressed even critics of the technology
Spanish blogger Oskar1up posted footage of No Man's Sky running with DLSS 5 neural rendering enabled. The reaction turned out to be unexpected for a topic that spent the last week collecting nothing but backlash...
Six games from the '90s and 2000s that still hold up
Nostalgia is a tricky thing – childhood memory loves to embellish, and what seemed like a masterpiece at age ten often turns out to be janky nonsense with terrible controls once you revisit it as...
Rockstar promises that vehicle handling in GTA 6 will combine the best elements from GTA 4 and GTA 5
Driving has always been one of the defining elements of the Grand Theft Auto series, right alongside stealing cars and causing chaos in the streets. That is why vehicle handling physics remain one of the...
