Civilization 7 fans find spots on maps for the Panama Canal and beg Firaxis to add it as soon as possible
Longtime Civilization fans share a certain occupational quirk: spotting narrow land bridges on any map and immediately wanting to dig a channel through them for the fleet. The latest example comes from the game community,...
Lucky guy finds a discarded full PC with an i9-9900K and 32 GB of DDR4 by the trash bins amid the memory shortage
Throwing away a working PC in 2026 is roughly like leaving a gold bar by the dumpster wrapped in old newspaper. Tossing it along with passwords, documents, and financial data is a whole other level...
Don't slaughter the cows in The Witcher 3's prologue – otherwise the game turns into a horror movie
Starting areas in RPGs usually run on an unspoken agreement. The world goes easy on the hero and throws a few wolves, drowners, and a couple of clumsy bandits their way. Sometimes that deal falls...
Deborah Ann Woll broke a sturdy wooden stick while filming God of War Laufey motion capture – fans started theorizing about the axe
Sometimes a few seconds of behind-the-scenes footage is all it takes for fans to build a whole theory about an upcoming game. Sometimes it even stretches to the fate of an iconic weapon, all because...
Satisfactory developers admit that designing the caves in the Core Values expansion was their biggest challenge – old layouts won't work in them
Coffee Stain is working on Core Values, an expansion for Satisfactory, and the scale of the challenge turns out to be bigger than it first appears. The action moves underground, but simply adding some lights...
Skyrim player wanted to give the fallen Lydia a "Viking funeral" but instead accidentally launched her half-naked corpse into the stratosphere
No companion in video game history has died as often or as absurdly as the Whiterun housecarl. Over the years, Lydia has been thrown into dragon fire, dropped off cliffs, forgotten in Dwemer ruins, and...
In the pre-release version of the By God Alone expansion for Crusader Kings 3, the Pope could have several wives and sire bastards due to a bug
On January 3, 902, the Christian church split in Crusader Kings 3. The Roman Rite became Catholicism, while the Greek Rite turned into Orthodoxy, followed by the Byzantine Empire. The player, as Pope, took charge...
Modder turns all griffins in The Witcher 3 into legendary low-poly pigeons
Modder grapedia released Low-Poly Pigeon – The Revenge for The Witcher 3. The mod turns every Griffin in the game into the angular bird players know from the long-running meme. For anyone out of the...
Bethesda shuts down viral AI-made Fallout: New York browser game
A fan-made Fallout: New York built with Claude is no more after its creator received a letter from ZeniMax. The browser game moved Fallout to New York and featured 117 locations, 112 characters, and 46...
20 new games and 0 hours in them – the Steam autumn sale is filling up your backlog again
Every longtime gamer has a graveyard of games they bought but never launched. Seasonal sales keep it well stocked. Sometimes a person with a hundred untouched titles in their library opens the store thinking, "well,...
Modder adds an entire chapter to Baldur's Gate 3 between the second and third acts
In mid-September, modder SquallyDaBeanz released Act Two Expansion, a solo-developed custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, in beta. The mod adds an extra chapter to the main story. The new content sits between the second...
The game that shouldn't exist – how Elden Ring has so much content
Some games impress with sheer scale, and others are hard to believe exist at all. Especially when a player with 30 years of gaming under his belt catches himself thinking that building what he's seeing...
Why the wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 silently watches the barbarian fail a magic check
RPGs love to talk about friendship, trust, and a tight-knit party, but the mechanics sometimes shatter that idyll with a roll of the d20. Picture a hero with the intelligence of a stool trying to...
The Witcher 3 fans split into two camps: some complain about overly drastic combat changes, while others don't notice them at all
Improving something millions of players have already beaten inside and out is one of the most thankless jobs in game development. Changes either go unnoticed entirely or get noticed too well, and then your own...
Even after a thousand hours in Baldur's Gate 3, you can still find new content in the first act
A good RPG is usually praised for its scale, but a great one gets praised for what most players never see. It gets absurd when someone with a thousand hours on the clock sits down...
Billionaire and Valve boss Gabe Newell refitted one of his yachts into a 93-meter base for deep-sea diving
Oceanco will present Draak, the yacht owned by Valve boss Gabe Newell, at the FLIBS show in Fort Lauderdale, US, running from October 28 to November 1, 2026. The 92.9-meter vessel recently debuted at the...
The Witcher 3 remaster made dungeons brighter and monsters funnier
Darkness in games works as well as any soundtrack, because the scariest things are the ones you can't see. But flood a dungeon with even light and render every brick, and the monster around the...
Fallout 4 fan used a couple of mods to turn the game into a gritty trench shooter with Warhammer 40k vibes
Every Fallout game opens with a reminder that war never changes, yet the series barely shows players the war itself. The nuclear apocalypse happens offscreen, and the hero emerges into the ruins decades or even...
The developers of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 wanted to send players to a new region from the start, but are doing everything they can to dodge questions about the main villain
CD Projekt RED is keeping most story details of the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past under wraps. The studio has shown the setting and a few characters Geralt will meet, but the...
Insider calculates that Remedy needs to sell 2.5 million copies of Control Resonant to remain independent
Independence in the games industry sounds proud, but in practice it often means every release becomes a bet on the whole company. That feels especially true when the fate of one of Europe's most distinctive...
