Crazy experimenter in Fallout 4 left Paladin Danse alone with endless synths overnight – and got a pile of corpses and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition
Fallout 4 has plenty of bugs that have already become memes, but few of them let you literally go to sleep and wake up owning millions of rounds of ammunition. All it takes is leaving...
Millennial generation is absolutely dissatisfied with zoomers who don't want to understand technology and the simplest technologies
Technology has gotten so user-friendly that an entire generation grew up without ever looking under the hood, let alone accidentally deleting the System32 folder from Windows. Phones turn on by themselves, apps update themselves, and...
Hardcore shooter Wardogs became a Steam bestseller after a list of 10 reasons not to buy it
Developers must be pretty confident in their game when they are willing to list every reason not to buy it. That is exactly what Bulkhead did in the latest dev log for Wardogs, a tactical...
Skyrim fan only learned after 200 hours in the game that he was supposed to sleep in a bed
Spending hundreds of hours in an open world without noticing an entire mechanic sounds like a bug, but in Skyrim it's just a natural result of how the game treats sleep. Rest isn't required for...
How to save a car you like in Cyberpunk 2077
Spotting the car of your dreams on the streets of Night City is easy. Actually keeping it is a different story. Cyberpunk 2077 isn't GTA, and yanking the driver out of their seat won't let...
Gamers believe that the RTX 5090 shouldn't be listed in system requirements – the graphics card is impossible to buy
Hardware requirements in recent games have long become a source of panic, though this panic is usually rooted in a simple misunderstanding. The line "requires RTX 5090" in system requirements gets read as a death...
Players with hundreds of hours in Crimson Desert have figured out why the RPG looks like both a graphics benchmark and a release from 2015
Shimmering puddles and 4K armor, blurred foliage during the four-to-five a.m. and six-to-eight p.m. windows, a trail behind wyvern wings against the clouds... That's the list of complaints one player compiled after 200 hours in...
A year and a half after release, Civilization 7 experts have started building almost perfect canal cities
Civilization 7 still doesn't have a dedicated canal improvement, but players have finally found a classic workaround. Building a city between two bodies of water has been a known trick for a while, letting players...
Fallout 3 players recalled how they couldn't get through the metro because the map was hidden in terminals
The Washington D.C. subway in Fallout 3 is still where playthroughs go to die. Players head down there for a quest, lose their bearings among identical tunnels, and can't find the right exit. Some of...
Gamers still consider the Pripyat mission in Call of Duty 4 and Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 to be the best in history of video games
Some missions you just click through, while others stick in your memory for years and pop right back up the moment someone mentions the game's name. These are the moments that fuel the endless debate...
Fallout: New Vegas fan showed how the RPG could look in the isometric perspective of the classic series entries
Sometimes all it takes is a different camera angle to turn a familiar game into something completely new. The Mojave Wasteland, shot from above at a distinctive tilt, suddenly stops looking like a first-person shooter...
One of the largest mods for Terraria is being shut down after the creator was accused of grooming
One of the biggest mods for Terraria is coming to an end. On August 10, the Calamity development team announced it was fully halting work on the modification, citing internal conflicts, a mass exodus of...
Oblivion developer, 20 years later, still remembers a quest that the game completed by itself
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered art lead Dan Lee shared a story that explains why Bethesda Game Studios games are still considered a benchmark for living open worlds. Lee joined the studio shortly after...
Cyberpunk 2077 fans appreciated the concept of Johnny Silverhand through millennia, from a cave painting to "Star Wars"
The success of Cyberpunk 2077 was built on more than just Night City neon and Johnny Silverhand rock-and-roll terrorism. A lot of it came down to a near-universal rebellion formula, where the whole point is...
Skyrim player showed bread and a piece of cheese in 8K from a 600 GB mod pack
The LoreRim modpack for Skyrim has become the perfect example of what texture resolution wars have done to modding. The install eats up as much space as a dozen modern game releases combined, and the...
Inventor created a "real-life home screen" for physical game discs
Nothing beats the feeling of owning physical games, but a digital library on a home screen has its own perks. Being able to instantly flick through box art and pick a title with a controller...
An enthusiast decided to make a cat bed on top of his PC instead of spikes – it turned out that many people do this
Cats have an unerring instinct for heat, and they'll colonize any source of warm air faster than you can blink. A gaming PC, with its fans and a case that's always warm, isn't just furniture...
Space Engineers 2 player created a giant automatic quarry that yields 560 thousand iron in three hours of work
Space Engineers 2 now has a working example of fully automated mining in survival mode. The rig spins around a vertical axis and lowers drills into the ground without any player input, grinding out circle...
Why the Alliance didn't care about the millions of abducted colonists in Mass Effect 2
Space colonization in the Mass Effect universe works in a way that part of humanity flat out refuses to live under the Systems Alliance umbrella. People head out to the Terminus frontier specifically so the...
An investigation has begun in Canada – how a mistake in a Skyrim fan's nickname led to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison
Canadian officials have launched an investigation into how an innocent man ended up spending 18 months behind bars after police confused his username, inspired by Skyrim, with a nearly identical account. Brandon Klayme was acquitted...
