Creative Assembly didn't have enough UE5 for Alien: Isolation 2, so the studio used its own technology
Developers of Alien: Isolation 2 believe that Unreal Engine 5 alone isn't enough to build a truly convincing horror game. That's why Creative Assembly decided to build its own lighting and audio technology on top...
Amazon destroys hundreds of sealed PS5 discs because nobody is buying them
Modern retail never stops finding ways to surprise people. Destroying a brand new product often turns out cheaper than selling it for pennies or giving it away. Things get weird when it's not expired yogurt...
A mod for Project Zomboid added a living world with NPC factions in the spirit of STALKER
A new Project Zomboid mod called Project A-Life has arrived, populating the map with survivor factions that act independently of the player. Fully realized human NPCs have remained the community biggest unfulfilled wish since The...
Wardogs developers didn't expect such popularity and aren't ready to release content at the pace needed to retain players
Wardogs hit Steam early access and picked up hundreds of thousands of players in less than two weeks. That kind of launch is every developer dream, but this sort of success comes with a flip...
You can buy yourself an arcade machine with 1200 games for PS1 for your birthday, but without L2 and R2 buttons
Nostalgia sells better than anything new, and the pricier it gets, the less buyers seem to care about details. Sometimes those details get ignored entirely. Take, for example, dropping $1,200 on a PlayStation arcade machine...
Her Story creator Sam Barlow explains why focus groups can harm games amid Wolverine criticism
Immortality and Her Story creator Sam Barlow spoke out about problems with focus testing in movies and games – and how it can end up shaping creative decisions for the worse. The trigger was recent...
Gabe Newell decided to make Steam after telling the original Half-Life publisher to get lost
Valve launching Steam back in 2004 changed how PC games get distributed almost overnight, and plenty of people rank that decision right up there with Nintendo making Super Mario Bros. and Sony creating the PlayStation....
RTX 5080 owner burns out graphics card after launching GTA 5 with DLSS 5 – replacement issued anyway
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 remains in limited release, but experimental libraries have already spread online and are being actively injected into dozens of games through third-party tools. One RTX 5080 owner learned the hard way what...
Skyrim fans hope that in The Elder Scrolls 6 you'll be able to find the grave of the last Dragonborn
Any Bethesda hero eventually turns into a line in a history book that the next nameless protagonist skims between two dungeon crawls. But sometimes you want something more grounded – like a stone gravestone, for...
The three best protagonists of story-driven RPG live in Eastern Europe
The RPG genre has long run on American fuel: Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect. But put together a short list of characters worth living a hundred hours as, and it turns out they all come from...
David and Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners in Fallout, Mass Effect, Persona, Red Dead Redemption and other universes
The suffix "-punk" stopped being a genre marker a long time ago and turned into a universal aesthetic generator: take any technology, add social inequality, and you're done. Dieselpunk, atompunk, solarpunk, shibuyapunk – the list...
New Fallout 4 player at level 37 couldn't find a suitable target for the Fat Man and asked other gamers for advice
Any RPG inventory eventually turns into a museum of items that never get used. Elixirs, scrolls, rare ammo just sit there gathering dust until the credits roll, and Fallout 4 takes this to an absurd...
War Skylines 2 mod for Cities Skylines 2 gets a global map, diplomacy, and 24 military research options
Modder AbeJustAbe has released the first major update for the playtest version of War Skylines II. The mod adds a layer of modern warfare and air defense to Cities: Skylines 2. You can grab it...
Microsoft patents a system that pauses games for advertising
Ads in games stopped being exotic a long time ago, but they mostly lived in the mobile segment and behaved rudely: round over, here's a full-screen banner. Microsoft, judging by a recent patent application, wants...
Typewriter, green grass, and a shotgun on the wall – why the new Resident Evil movie is still Resident Evil
A game adaptation can follow the source material to the letter and still feel completely dead, or it can skip every recognizable logo and still feel like the truest thing to the series. The debate...
Control Resonant in 4K without ray tracing and upscaling can only be handled by the RTX 5090 – but with DLSS 4.5 you can play with path tracing even on the RTX 5080
DSOGaming continues testing new video game releases. This time, they turned their attention to the action-adventure game Control Resonant. For the benchmarks, they used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM at...
Bruce Straley apologized several times to the developers of God of War Laufey for citing their game as an example of "AAA industry stagnation"
Bruce Straley, Naughty Dog veteran and one of the creators behind The Last of Us and Uncharted, has publicly apologized to the Santa Monica Studio team behind God of War Laufey. The apology came after...
A Fallout 4 player noticed the Children of Atom symbol on Vault 81's Tina's forehead and came up with a whole backstory before finding out it was just a bug
A tenth playthrough of the same game works like a magnifying glass: the story gets memorized by heart, dialogue gets skipped on reflex, but the eye suddenly latches onto some tiny detail that got ignored...
Saber Interactive's director knows how to avoid layoffs – you need to give up expensive American cities and work on 5-6 small games simultaneously with AAA titles
Layoffs have become a constant fixture in gaming industry news. Even if the pace of cuts has slowed down somewhat in 2026, their severity hasn't lessened. In July, Microsoft made 1600 staff redundant as part...
A Crusader Kings 3 player was amazed by the game's realism – his daughter became an alcoholic at just 15
Medieval dynasty simulators tend to produce stories no scriptwriter could dream up. There you are, counting taxes and planning a marriage alliance with a neighboring duchy, when the game casually informs you that your fifteen-year-old...
