The developer of Lord of the Rings: War in the North literally begged WB Games not to release the game a week before Skyrim's release, but they weren't listened to
Lord of the Rings: War in the North is suddenly back in the spotlight – the Legacy Edition remaster has picked up a warm welcome on Steam and a "Very Positive" rating. The original 2011...
An enthusiast made a surprisingly high-quality Ring of Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings for his future wife
Proposing with a ring inspired by Galadriel artifact – now that's an idea as beautiful as it is bold. Nenya, one of the three elven Rings of Power in Tolkien lore, was never meant to...
Stellaris fans joke that the patch adding the ability to center the emblem on their empire's flag has finally made the strategy game playable
Sometimes real happiness for strategy fans doesn't come from a new ship class or an overhaul of an entire game system – it comes from finally being able to center an emblem on your empire...
18-year-old teenager found gold worth 9 million euros while laying sewer pipes in Belgium
Eighteen-year-old Kobe, working a summer job on a construction site, stumbled onto a stash of gold worth roughly 9 million euros. The find happened on a Tuesday morning as the crew dug trenches for a...
YouTube tightens monetization requirements – newcomers will need twice as many views
YouTube might be turning into a less rewarding platform for creators just starting out. The platform announced updated monetization rules for its Partner Program, and the news isn't great for newcomers. Qualifying for the program...
In Salzburg, more than 200 golden Mozart statues were stolen in a month
An art installation celebrating Mozart's 270th birthday has taken a serious hit after 210 of its golden statues vanished within a month. The display opened in Salzburg, Austria, on July 15 with 320 miniature versions...
A gamer visited the real Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, and three years later reached it in Fallout 76 as well
The small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia isn't famous for coal or the Ohio River, but for a winged creature with glowing red eyes. The legend of the Mothman dates back to 1966, when...
Head of Saber Interactive insulted the fired screenwriter of Rideshare Stimulator and accused her of leaking information about AI, while denying her statements about AI
The controversy surrounding Rideshare Stimulator has moved past a simple credit dispute and turned into a PR disaster. Writer Stella Sacco said on social media that she'd once been the game's lead writer but was...
Enthusiast turned a mini-PC into a fully passively cooled mini-server and retained 95 percent of performance
A Korean tech enthusiast running the YouTube channel Reeal Lab turned a Geekom A8 Max mini PC into a completely silent server, swapping out the stock active cooling for a passive heatsink pulled from a...
Founders of id Software – Tom Hall, John Romero, and both Carmacks – gathered together for the first time in 30 years at QuakeCon and even met with the "mother of id"
QuakeCon 2026 went down in history not just as a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Quake, but as an event many are already calling one of the warmest moments in gaming industry history. For...
Windows 11 Weather App Consumes 1.2 Gigabytes of RAM for a Forecast
Windows is going through a rough patch, with years of stagnation and neglect finally hitting a boiling point for users. Lack of optimization, bloatware, ads, forced AI features, and persistent tracking have forced Microsoft to...
Steam Machine owner carved faceplates from the same marble Michelangelo used
When Valve first showed off the Steam Machine at its offices back in October 2025, the company promised it would release files to 3D print new faceplates for the mini gaming PC. And Valve kept...
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...
PC owner stuffed the case with rolls of toilet paper for safe and practical transportation
So how did you transport your PC during your last move or relocation? One gamer found a surprisingly budget-friendly and effective way to do it. A gamer, whose name isn't revealed, stuffed the case of...
Farmer family rejected $26 million for selling land for a data center
Tech companies are pouring billions of dollars into massive data center construction across the US amid the ongoing AI boom, but not everyone is willing to sell their land. An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer and her...
21-year-old student from Berlin created a radar detector for ticket inspectors and received 55 thousand messages
Berlin transport operator BVG has criticized FreiFahren, an app that shows real-time fare inspection locations on the subway and city rail network. The operator responded to the app, stating that helping people ride without a...
An iceberg the size of Manhattan broke off from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland
A massive iceberg has broken off from the Northern Hemisphere's longest floating ice tongue, and researchers expect at least two more calving events from Greenland's Petermann Glacier in the near future. Satellite imagery from the...
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...
Researcher created a leaderboard of the slowest x86 instructions – record of 198 billion cycles in 62 seconds
Instruction latency analysis usually helps figure out how long low-level commands take to run on a processor, with the goal of optimizing either the architecture itself or applications built for specific hardware. Hardware researcher Christopher...
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...
