What Games Should Still Be Added to the Perfect 2000s Gamer Desktop
Any attempt to build a complete list of games from an entire era ends the same way – someone always finds a gap the size of Homeworld. And when the topic is Windows 95 and...
Fallout creator's face has been hidden in the game's icon for almost 30 years
A joke made for future hardware doesn't stay a joke forever. Developers in the 90s hid gags in places they figured nobody would reach for another twenty years, and then technology caught up and spilled...
Many Fallout 4 veterans still don't know about the existence of message-in-a-bottle items in the game that lead to treasures
There's a special kind of discovery that only very old games can offer: a player who's logged a couple thousand hours in a beloved title suddenly stumbles on content they've never seen before. Not a...
Ciri defeats a manticore in new The Witcher 4 concept art – this monster was cut from the third game
CD Projekt RED shared a new concept art from the The Witcher 4 universe showing Ciri locked in a deadly battle with a manticore. The piece, framed in an elegant black border, captures the climactic...
Action games based on "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" are considered among the best Lord of the Rings games by fans
A good measure of how alive a game still is isn't its launch-day scores but how many people argue about its mechanics from memory two decades later. EA action games based on Peter Jackson trilogy...
The Witcher 3 remaster will release for free on September 29 with a Songs of the Past trailer
CD Projekt RED announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered during Gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25. The update arrives September 29 and goes to every owner of the game for free, with no...
Fans confirm that the leaked GTA 6 map is 100% accurate
A community of enthusiasts, who spent years reconstructing the GTA 6 map frame by frame, has gone through material from this week's leak. Members compared the leaked image against their own version of the open...
Beautiful, expensive, and unbearable – games where you want to skip every cutscene
Game technology keeps improving at breakneck speed, but writing departments don't get the same treatment – if anything, they're usually the first thing studios cut. Developers can render individual skin pores, simulate fabric physics down...
Analyst who worked at EA for nine years doesn't believe in a new Mass Effect release after the deal with Saudi Arabia
This month, EA came under the control of a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. Employees at the publisher are already bracing for...
Sony reminded players that they do not own digital games
PlayStation account holders received an unexpected email containing the full text of the platform's user agreements, spelling out that purchased digital games remain a license rather than something you actually own. The mailing landed right...
Age of Empires 2 fan revives debate on building rotation and shows mirrored structures
A veteran Age of Empires 2 player going by CrazyYETEE posted a series of mockups showing what buildings would look like in the Definitive Edition remaster if mirrored horizontally. The idea boils down to letting...
Gamer created a handy guide for finding all the Barenziah Stones in Skyrim and claims you'll "definitely thank him later"
Some quests are memorable for their story, and some are memorable for making players grab a notebook. "Thank Me Later" falls into the second category: two dozen identical purple stones scattered across Skyrim without a...
Microsoft to reveal data on GTA 6 leaker
Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet has commented on the court ruling that requires Microsoft and Discord to hand over data related to the accounts of GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek. On August 20, Take-Two filed two...
A Multitude of Xenomorph Types, From Armored to Praetorian, Featured in New Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Trailer
Cold Iron Studios dropped a new trailer just days before the launch of Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. The game arrives on August 25, and the latest video, titled "Xenomorph Showcase", gives a look at the...
Slay the Spire 2 fan came up with cards so interesting that the game's developer promised to "steal" them
Coming up with new cards when you're making a deckbuilder must be tough. You have to keep finding inventive ways to push players and the game without breaking it. But for the Slay the Spire...
PC gamer showed a flooded basement with a gaming station and got a list of protective measures
This photo shows one of the scariest nightmares for anyone who decided to turn their basement into a gaming room. The image shows a man in fishing waders sitting in a gaming chair in the...
Rockstar disappointed by GTA 6 leaks, but development continues
Rockstar Games is dealing with a tense atmosphere internally following another leak of GTA 6 materials. According to Jason Schreier of Bloomberg, studio employees describe their mood as "frustration and exhaustion" as the investigation into...
Dave Bautista replaces Ryan Hurst as Kratos in the God of War series
Dave Bautista has signed on to play Kratos in Prime Video's fantasy drama God of War. Bautista joined the project after Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television decided to recast the role that was...
Crusader Kings 3 fan spent a whole hour creating an exact copy of herself in the game, and she's already ready to seduce the Pope
Character creators have basically become the unofficial exam for any game with a portrait system: shape up some nameless barbarian and everything looks fine, but try to recreate your own face, and the whole thing...
Red Alert 2 fan created a 6-minute AI short film — even a former developer praised it
A six-minute AI short film that transplants the world of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 into reality dropped on August 20 and has already racked up around 13,000 views. The video comes from the...
