Steam version of Civilization 7 is free until September 10 – the game is gradually catching up to the fifth installment in online players
Firaxis Games has made Civilization 7 free to play on Steam through September 10. Just head to the game page and hit the "Play Game" button, then let the files download – no payment required....
Players are still unhappy that Arthur from the Red Dead Redemption 2 artwork doesn't resemble his in-game version
The cover art for a big game is almost always drawn while the game itself is still unfinished. Artists get their hands on intermediate models, marketing designers get a deadline, and years later players squint...
Popular streamer refused to advertise ARC Raiders for a six-figure sum in dollars – but agreed for a seven-figure one
Popular streamer TimTheTatman revealed what it would take for him to go back to ARC Raiders, and the number he mentioned is impressive even by influencer industry standards. He'd previously been offered an ad deal...
Skyrim player pulled dragon armor from a chest at level 24 and was surprised to learn how the Anniversary Edition broke progression
Any RPG runs on a simple rule – first you fight in rags and rusty scraps, and only later do you earn the right to wear something legendary. That formula breaks instantly the moment a...
A Crusader Kings 3 veteran finally finished a campaign for the first time in 2,000 hours – eight rulers with god‑like traits were enough to last 586 years
Paradox grand strategy games are built so the final date barely matters. Fans start a campaign with excitement, turn into a land-grabbing machine by the midpoint, then start a new save the moment an heir...
GTA 6 on PC may be released earlier due to hardware shortage
The PC version of GTA V from Rockstar Games arrived more than a year and a half after the console release. Rumor has it GTA VI might not make PC players wait nearly as long....
A frame with flip-flops from GTA 6 and Vice City shows 24 years of graphics evolution
One of the most talked about GTA 6 images this week contains no new locations, characters, or story hints. The top half of the picture shows a foot in a flip-flop from GTA Vice City,...
In 45 minutes, GPT-6 AI built a prototype 3D voxel-style game on Three.js
A developer going by Anshu posted a prototype of a 3D game that GPT-6 Astra reportedly built on the first attempt in 45 minutes. Every bit of geometry and every texture came straight from the...
Fallout 4 veteran stumbles upon a random encounter with Skinny Malone for the first time in three thousand hours
Sparing an enemy in Bethesda games usually just means saving a few bullets and picking up a tiny bit of experience. But every once in a while, mercy pays off hundreds of hours later in...
A Crusader Kings 3 fan's girlfriend found his old saves named "Kill the Pope" and "Before Incest" – and she had questions
A save folder is more honest than browser history. It doesn't know how to make excuses and has never heard the word "context," so the moment someone peeks at the file list, it turns out...
Impressions after 45 minutes in Lego Skylines – a cute little town unexpectedly turns into a serious megapolis simulator
Lego Skylines looks exactly like what you'd expect at first glance, but give it half an hour and the game starts behaving quite differently. Paradox Interactive and Finnish studio Iceflake Studios showed a playable build...
Onimusha: Way of the Sword shows amazing optimization, but the game's graphics don't impress
Journalists from DSOGaming keep testing new video games, and this time they turned their attention to Onimusha: Way of the Sword, publishing a full performance analysis. The test rig combined an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,...
A Crusader Kings 3 player fell into despair after having six daughters in a row and asked the community for advice
Paradox strategy games like to pretend that everything comes down to calculation and patience, and then the random number generator shows up and burns fifty years of planning in a single child-birth screen. Sometimes it...
Steam brought Valve $15 billion in 2026, with Crimson Desert alone earning $203 million
Valve continues to post record numbers through Steam. According to market analysis from Alinea Analytics lead Rhys Elliott, the platform pulled in roughly $15 billion in gross revenue over the first eight months of 2026...
Someone made an infinite AI stream with the interdimensional TV from "Rick and Morty" – it's already been banned on Twitch and Kick
AI video generation has finally outpaced the speed at which people can watch it, and the first practical use of that breakthrough turned out to be a 24/7 broadcast that never repeats itself. Fal took...
On day two, an AI-created clone of Cities Skylines already lets you build cities in the browser
A developer going by raw pushed a city-building simulator to a genuinely playable state after Claude Fable 5.1 built it from a single prompt. An early demo stopped at an empty landscape, and the main...
GTA 6 fans measured oxygen levels near Rockstar's office – and the studio confirmed it
Italian YouTuber Mike ShowSha visited Rockstar offices ahead of the GTA 6 showcase on Netflix and shared a strange detail from the trip. According to him, studio employees confirmed that particularly dedicated fans really did...
An old number from the Lord of the Rings DVD led a fan to a 2001 chess set
Sometimes the most interesting finds hide not in online stores, but in old things long written off. That is exactly what happened with this story about a Lord of the Rings chess set that resurfaced...
Developer built a Cities: Skylines prototype on Three.js using AI and a single prompt, spending $203
A day after Claude Fable 5.1 launched, a Reddit user posted the results of an experiment that boiled down to a single prompt and an hour and a half of waiting. The model got an...
Here's what real dishes from Skyrim look like in real life
Virtual food in games usually exists just to top off a health bar or tweak character stats. But spend enough time staring at the texture details on plates in Skyrim, and sooner or later a...
