Gamers chose the Fallout faction they would join if survival depended on common sense
The eternal question of the Fallout universe sounds noble on paper – which side would you fight for if you actually landed in the post-nuclear wasteland? Strip away the idealism, though, and think it through...
American retailer starts selling gold-plated Doom floppy disks for $30 without the game itself
GameStop has put gold replicas of Doom floppy disks up for pre-order, priced at $29.99 apiece. It's a real collectible from Fanattik, but there's no game code or download key included. So what exactly is...
GTA 6 to be shown on August 27 on Netflix
Rockstar announced that an extended GTA 6 showcase will air on Thursday, August 27, at 10 PM Moscow time. The premiere will stream on Netflix. In the meantime, there's a new teaser art showing off...
Did you know that the first ethernet cable was bright yellow so that no one would accidentally drill into a power cable
If you think the color of ethernet cables comes down to convenience or marketing, the history of the standard tells a different story. The original spec, drawn up in the 1970s, called for cables in...
16 GB of video memory has become the new standard for gamers on Steam
The bar for a "normal" amount of video memory has quietly moved up. Just a couple years ago, 8GB counted as a comfortable minimum for most games, but cards with that same amount are no...
Gamers decided that the RTX 5090 can no longer be called a gaming graphics card – it has become too expensive
The graphics card that now costs as much as a used car is losing its right to be called a gaming product. The RTX 5090 stopped being the ceiling for gamers a while ago and...
Minecraft received update 3.45 with new biomes and hundreds of fixes
Mojang released a new update for the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, bringing a huge list of changes. On consoles the update shows up as Minecraft 3.45 and includes the experimental Drop 3 features alongside a...
A gamer revealed that his late grandfather left behind an official Skyrim guidebook, sparking an existential crisis among fans of the series
A gamer recently shared photos online of an official Skyrim guide found among the belongings of their recently deceased grandfather, calling the book "old merch." That phrase hit the audience harder than the story itself...
New mod for Fallout 4 completely overhauls shooting with customizable weapon inertia and movement
Modder TheShinyHaxorus released an impressive mod for Fallout 4. It adds fully customizable weapon and first-person movement inertia, along with several useful features that improve the overall feel of shooting. In the original version of...
Warhammer 40,000 experts calculated how many Imperial Titans are needed to take down a Reaper from Mass Effect
Pitting two universes against each other is a favorite pastime for fans, especially when the fight involves combat machines the size of skyscrapers. The premise is simple – how many Imperial Titans from Warhammer 40,000...
Rust player paralyzed after swatting demands $176 million from police
23-year-old Axeel Melendez from Tucson has filed a $176 million lawsuit against local law enforcement. The case stems from an incident in April, when officers responding to a false call shot him in the leg...
Fallout 3 fan asked the remaster's developers to get rid of Rivet City's loading screens
Bethesda Game Studios officially confirmed remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, though no release dates were given. Discussion after the announcement quickly turned to a question that matters more to players than graphics....
Players found a second painting in GTA 5 resembling a GTA 6 map
Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick promised that the GTA 6 marketing campaign would kick off this summer and wouldn't follow the usual playbook. Summer is almost over, and barely any official material has shown up....
Larian released update 1.096 for Baldur's Gate 3 and launched a 30% discount
One of the best RPGs of the decade keeps getting support. Larian Studios released a new patch for Baldur's Gate 3. The studio previously said the major content update with new features that launched a...
18-year-old guy bought 20 DDR5 modules for $1600 to resell in 15 years
An eighteen-year-old buyer purchased twenty Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 sticks for a total of $1,600 and stashed them in a drawer. The plan spans ten to fifteen years, after which he expects to sell the...
The Dark Urge to Start All Over Again – Players Explain Why They Replay Baldur's Gate 3 Ten Times
Some games are impossible to "finish" in the traditional sense. You reach the credits, save Baldur's Gate, kill Ketheric Thorm, and a couple of weeks later find yourself creating a new character, swearing this time...
Valve saved the current build of Half-Life: Alyx to a separate branch, and the community is already building theories
A new Steam branch for Half-Life: Alyx called "previous_release" has shown up. Valve locked down the current version of the game separately, which usually happens before major changes hit the main build. The most likely...
Gamers have already come to terms with the fact that RAM will be in perpetual shortage due to AI corporations
Hoping a burst bubble will bring things back to normal rarely pans out. That's exactly how the situation with memory and storage looks right now, and any hope that RAM and SSD prices will return...
A dead Falmer embraces a captive in Dwemer ruins, and it's one of the darkest details in Skyrim
Skyrim has trained players to look for stories where none officially exist. Stumble across a couple of corpses frozen in an unnatural pose, and the brain does the rest, filling in a tragedy complete with...
Tencent spent six years and hundreds of millions on a GTA competitor – the game Last Sentinel was shut down
Last Sentinel got a flashy cinematic reveal at The Game Awards 2023, positioned as an open-world sci-fi action game from former Rockstar Games developers. Three years later, without ever showing gameplay, the title has apparently...
