The Samsara wheel of PC Gamers – new technologies slow down old powerful graphics cards
Upscaling and frame generation were originally created for one purpose – giving weaker hardware a second wind. In practice, the industry quickly found another use for them: instead of optimizing a game for real hardware,...
Some Fallout 4 fans were surprised to learn that the game is literally packed with references to Blade Runner
A good science fiction setting rarely exists in a vacuum – it always builds on the shoulders of genre classics. But when a game manages to weave in not just a reference, but an entire...
IKEA to launch collaboration with Skyrim before The Elder Scrolls 6 release
IKEA announced an unexpected collaboration with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The official IKEA accounts for Ireland and the United Kingdom posted a promo video on Instagram showing familiar items from the game piled up...
Mizora from Baldur's Gate 3 has become a full-fledged companion thanks to a new mod
Baldur's Gate 3 modders have moved well beyond tweaking existing companions and building custom campaigns. Now you can recruit characters Larian never designed as party members in the first place. The latest example is Mizora,...
Space Marines in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will monitor reputation and avoid accusations of heresy
Creative Assembly has revealed new details on how relationships within the Imperium will work in Total War: Warhammer 40,000. Space Marines will need to do more than fight xenos – they'll also have to stay...
GTA 4 transports you to a world that no longer exists – that's its whole magic
Some games simply age, and some turn into time machines. The difference is simple: the first kind just look technically outdated, while the second kind accidentally capture a moment in history so precisely that every...
The only official Mass Effect 3 themed Xbox 360 was found almost for free
Sometimes the most valuable artifacts in gaming history don't turn up at specialized auctions or through closed collector communities. They surface completely by accident, in the hands of someone who had no idea for years...
Nexus Mods bought the fan database SteamDB – its creator burned out from supporting the project
SteamDB, one of the main services for tracking stats, prices and updates on Steam, has changed hands. Founder Pavel Djundik has handed the project over to Nexus Mods, which will take over its development going...
Impressions after 30 minutes with Alien: Isolation 2 – the sequel is scarier than the original
Journalists from GamesRadar got their hands on a half-hour demo of Alien: Isolation 2 and walked away with one takeaway – the sequel presses on the nerves even harder than the 2014 original. The xenomorph...
15 years later, Skyrim fans noticed that Todd Howard was playing a fully leveled mage during the demo
The E3 2011 demo for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been quoted to death over the years, with Todd Howard mountain line still standing as the most famous bit. Fifteen years later, fans went...
Sony agreed to pay almost $8 million to gamers as part of a lawsuit over PS Store monopoly
Sony has agreed to pay out nearly $8 million to PlayStation customers as part of a settlement regarding digital game prices on the PlayStation Store. The settlement became possible after the court denied Sony motion...
Bethesda veterans were laid off in two-minute meetings – neither Skyrim nor Fallout saved decades-long careers
Bethesda is among the many game studios affected by the ongoing mass layoffs at Xbox, which are set to cut 3,200 jobs by the end of the 2027 fiscal year. At least 1,600 employees have...
Street Fighter movie trailer shows an evil Ryu, 50 Cent, and a green Jason Momoa
Paramount dropped a new trailer for the Street Fighter movie adaptation, this time focused on brothers Ryu and Ken. The story takes place in 1993, with the two legendary fighters pulled back into action by...
Rusty after 286 days at sea, the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln reminded Fallout 3 players of Rivet City
USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into the port of Laem Chabang near Pattaya after 286 days without a full port call, including 208 straight days at sea. Paint on the massive hull had worn down to...
17-year-old GTA IV looks like a next-gen game thanks to DLSS5
Modders keep proving that old-game graphics are limited less by hardware and more by the year they came out. The moment a new rendering technology shows up, someone drags it into a decade-old title just...
Court allows Take-Two to obtain personal data of Discord users who may be involved in the GTA 6 leak
Judge Andrew L. Carter has granted Take-Two Interactive request for a new subpoena, one that would require Discord to hand over more detailed information about users tied to the GTA 6 leak. In his ruling,...
Blogger showed DLSS 5 using Death Stranding 2 as an example, and characters instantly aged 20 years
GamerInVoid posted a comparison of five games running DLSS 5 neural rendering, building the defense of the technology around Death Stranding 2. The logic seemed simple enough: Kojima chased photorealism, so processing that pushes the...
No Man's Sky player has compiled a catalog of 241 systems with colliding planets
A No Man's Sky fan updated their public list of star systems where planets crash into one another. The collection gained 57 new entries, bringing the total to 241 documented systems. The search covers 60...
You won't be able to freely switch between Jason and Lucia in GTA 6 in all story missions – only in some
Rob Nelson, co-studio head and head of development at Rockstar North, told Japanese outlet Famitsu how the character-switching system works between the two protagonists in GTA 6. Depending on the situation, players will either be...
Fan comic based on Plants vs Zombies gained 25 million views thanks to new plant PiBlaze
Fan artist LeafPaw posted a short *Plants vs Zombies* comic that turned into one of the most talked-about pieces of fan art for the franchise within a week. The reason was a new character, a...
