GTA 6 won't allow us to buy a house in story mode
Buying property in the GTA 6 single-player campaign won't be an option, and Rockstar Games has story reasons for that. Jason and Lucia are on the run, so putting down roots with a house purchase...
DLSS 5 leak turns game characters into photorealistic mutants and has already split the community into two camps
An unofficial version of Nvidia upscaling tech that users have dubbed "DLSS 5" has escaped into the wild. The tool ended up in the hands of enthusiasts ahead of any official announcement, and people are...
Activision showed a video and screenshots of lawyers serving lawsuits to creators of Call of Duty cheats
Activision has significantly ramped up its years-long campaign against cheaters, publishing actual footage of a cheat maker being served a legal notice. The publisher is making it clear that the fight against unfair play has...
Fallout 4 fan raised an odd question – how many years of cleaning would it take Codsworth to turn the Wasteland from a dump into a decent place to live
The Mr. Handy robot butler series was built for suburban household chores – mowing the lawn, wiping down countertops, cooking dinner. Sending one of these things to clean up a ransacked amusement park where three...
Hearts of Iron 4 fan got so immersed in the strategy game that he started seeing Hungary in his cat after the First Vienna Award
Long strategy games do something strange to the brain: it stops seeing the world map as just a map. First you memorize the shapes of countries, then the resource provinces, and at some point your...
The artist showed a 23-year-old photo with the fairy that Nvidia once used to promote video cards
Ahead of Nvidia latest earnings report, longtime PC scene veteran and digital artist Bryan Brinkman posted a photo of himself from E3 2003, showing him at eighteen years old standing next to a model dressed...
Crimson Desert patches will be released less frequently because the studio has redirected all its efforts to creating expansions
One of the odder surprises from Gamescom Opening Night Live was the reveal of Crimson Desert Enhanced – a kind of rebrand for the RPG from South Korean studio Pearl Abyss. It's not a full...
Beholder, magic, and beautiful women in the Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons trailer
At Gamescom Opening Night, Invoke Studios showed off the first gameplay footage for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons. The footage let us see Kaatri exploring the world and showing off how the magic that you learn...
Portable Xbox in a Pelican Case Failed to Start at an Altitude of 10 Kilometers
Home consoles have long since learned to travel: people stuff them into Pelican cases, wire in a monitor and power jacks, and turn the whole thing into a portable gaming station. The logical next step...
IO Interactive AI programmer claims that NPCs in GTA 6 are at least 10 years ahead of the industry
IO Interactive AI programmer Berkay Dursun spoke about the crowd technology in GTA 6, comparing it to the work done at his own studio. The comments came after gameplay clips leaked online shortly before Rockstar...
1 kilometer and 10 meters – how Pearl Abyss taught players to trust the horizon in Crimson Desert
Pearl Abyss revealed the main goal behind the open world in Crimson Desert. Developers wanted every point players could spot in the distance to be reachable. The studio called that trust in the horizon its...
Prospera announced – a victorian-era city-building simulator
Prospera made its debut at the Future Games Show, bringing an unusual take on the city-building genre by letting players experience it through the eyes of an ordinary worker. The debut trailer runs just 30...
Enthusiast built a PC in the nose of a de Havilland aircraft so that Flight Simulator would work authentically
Custom PC cases stopped being just about cooling a long time ago and turned into a form of self-expression – aquariums, wooden boxes, sometimes even replicas of tractor factories. But giving a system unit an...
Baldur's Gate 3 mod adds a 6-hour campaign about Astarion with 4 endings and a cat you can pet
Baldur's Gate 3 is finally getting the kind of custom campaigns fans have wanted since Divinity: Original Sin 2. A Dream of Silence: ReVamped launched on Nexus Mods and delivers roughly six hours of new...
Oblivion and Skyrim have completely different types of thieves guilds – how The Elder Scrolls changed its attitude toward crime
Factions in RPGs rarely amount to just a set of quests. A guild is a way to explore a world from the inside, through the profession and morality of the people who survive in it....
Assassin's Creed Odyssey became the highest-rated game in the series on Steam thanks to Christopher Nolan's new film
Turns out the best advertising a game could ask for showed up in movie theaters. After the premiere of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster "The Odyssey," Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the eleventh mainline entry in the series,...
Crusader Kings 3 player created a copy of himself – but gamers were more impressed by the real photo of the chad author
Character creators exist for pretty much one reason – to let people make themselves a little better looking than they actually are. Higher cheekbones, a sharper jawline, none of the asymmetry only the bathroom mirror...
Minecraft server on a smartphone with an AMD cooler and built-in UPS
When people imagine a home server, they picture a humming tower in the corner, a rack in the basement, or at least a single-board computer stuffed into a 3D-printed case. In reality, running a Minecraft...
Modders launched DLSS 5 in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Skyrim – performance loss up to 45% on RTX 5090
New footage of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 running with NVIDIA DLSS 5 has surfaced online. There is no before/after comparison yet, so it's too early to judge the actual improvement in image quality. The choice...
Companies are abandoning discs because factories no longer produce drives – they are only needed for consoles
Physical game releases usually get mourned as a casualty of laziness, Sony, and digital sales – buyers got lazy, greedy Japanese companies want every penny they can squeeze out, and boxes vanished from shelves on...
