In China, modified RTX 3080 with 20GB are returning to the market as a budget solution for gamers
The graphics card market is showing an unusual trend that runs against the usual march of progress. Instead of fading into history, old flagship GPUs are getting a second life thanks to Chinese companies that...
Gamers believe that Rockstar itself is to blame for the effectiveness of the GTA 6 leaks, having gone too long without showing gameplay
An information vacuum around a big release never stays empty for long. Nature fills it with something – rumors, fan theories, or in the worst case, someone else's hands pulling whatever they can find out...
How to cure the emptiness after Expedition 33 – seven games from fans of the French JRPG
There's a particular kind of hangover that no amount of sleep or water cures. The game ended months ago, credits rolled long since, and characters that technically don't exist still cross your mind. The worst...
Mortal Shell 2 player discovered that before the final boss, the game reproached him for 16 thousand hours in Destiny 2
Right before the final boss in Mortal Shell 2, players stumble on a few stone tablets covered in text. Instead of lore, Cold Symmetry pulled real Steam account stats and dressed them up as the...
GTAForums user traced the crypto wallets of the GTA 6 leaker and calculated his earnings
The leaker going by CyberLeek, known for posting Grand Theft Auto VI material, may have pulled in more than $50,000 through a crypto scheme tied to the leaks. GTAForums user Vice Cit ran an extensive...
Naughty Dog Designer Called Uncharted Development "a Real Hell" Because of PS3 and Attempts to Imitate Gears of War and Tomb Raider
The first Nathan Drake adventure launched in November 2007 and marked a complete reinvention for Naughty Dog: the studio left its cartoonish platformers behind and dove into a cinematic third-person shooter. As it turns out,...
Solo developer built a 3D ASCII-style city in JavaScript in a single HTML file
ASCII art was born from limitations. Artists had to build recognizable images out of a fixed, equal-width character set, and those constraints created an aesthetic that still lives on today. Traces of the style show...
The Cost of Hope DLC for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was released along with update 2.0
GSC Game World has released Cost of Hope, the first story expansion for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. A new trailer accompanies the launch, revealing the setup of the story and the key players caught...
GTA 6 hacker demanded public apology from Rockstar and threatened other publishers
A hacker going by CyberLeek, responsible for the massive GTA 6 leaks, published a document called the "CYBERLEEK Edict" laying out demands for the games industry. The text lists three "commandments," with violators facing unspecified...
Skyrim players and modders raise money for lawyers after complaint from ENBSeries developer
In early August 2026, the Community Shaders team released an update that turned the open-source graphics framework for Skyrim into a direct competitor to ENBSeries. A few weeks later, ENBSeries developer Boris Vorontsov filed a...
Cyberpunk 2077 does have cyberpsychosis mechanics after all, and every player ends up reaching it
Cyberpunk tabletop games ran on a simple deal for decades: want metal arms, pay with a piece of your humanity. In Cyberpunk 2077 that deal got quietly dropped, and it turns out that without it...
Minecraft player builds a working AI chatbot in the sandbox from 445 thousand command blocks without a single mod
The Minecraft community has spent years building graphing calculators, QR code generators, and even Tetris inside the game using redstone and command blocks. A player known as Objz took things further and built a working...
Hackers leaked another 2 minutes of GTA 6 gameplay – the recording appears to be from the 2025 version
Another gameplay clip from GTA 6 hit the web, and the group behind the leaks, CyberLeek, has laid out demands for Rockstar for the first time. Both recordings come from unfinished builds of the game....
PC Games – a user bought an app for a gamepad, got banned, and was forced to download a pirated version of what he paid for
Software for a controller that can ban users sounds like a contradiction in terms. A program whose only job is to make vibration, adaptive triggers, and lighting work on a DualSense in PC games shouldn't...
New mod for Skyrim adds localized damage and reworked weapon balance
Modder Seb263 has released a mod for The Elder Scrolls V that adds a localized damage system, armor effectiveness, weapon balance, and combat context for deeper, more tactical fights. Going into more detail, the mod...
Games that many gamers refuse to launch even out of curiosity – Tarkov, Rust, Fortnite, PUBG and soulslikes
Refusing to try a game is rarely about taste. More often it comes down to cold calculation: someone already knows how much time, patience, and money a game will demand, and decides not to open...
Fallout 4 fan decided to find out if it's possible to meet Virgil at the very beginning of the game – the answer was disappointing
Any open-world game eventually tempts players into an experiment: what if you just sprint straight to the final location? Skip the quest chain, ignore every clue, and head directly for wherever the story would take...
Half of paid games on Steam earned less than $3,600, while the top 1% of the most successful releases brought in 85% of the revenue
A new analysis of 99,206 paid games on Steam shows just how polarized the economics of Valve's platform have become. Half the catalogue has earned less than $3,622 over its entire lifetime, while the top...
Bethesda released update 1.45 for Fallout 4 – fortunately, it didn't break mods
Bethesda Game Studios has rolled out another patch for Fallout 4, appearing in the client as update 1.45. The update arrived on August 18th and focuses on the Creations system. Don't expect new features here...
Minecraft players demand deeper oceans and diving suits
Would you want oceans to actually matter in Minecraft? Most players today find them shallow and empty, so fans keep asking Mojang to expand the underwater biomes. A recent thread about oceans included a suggestion...
