Fallout 4 veteran stumbles upon a random encounter with Skinny Malone for the first time in three thousand hours
Sparing an enemy in Bethesda games usually just means saving a few bullets and picking up a tiny bit of experience. But every once in a while, mercy pays off hundreds of hours later in...
Some Fallout 4 fans were surprised to learn that the game is literally packed with references to Blade Runner
A good science fiction setting rarely exists in a vacuum – it always builds on the shoulders of genre classics. But when a game manages to weave in not just a reference, but an entire...
YouTuber created an exact replica of Whiterun from Skyrim using 80,000 LEGO pieces
Fan builds based on video games happen all the time, but once in a while something comes along that makes even people indifferent to LEGO stop and stare. That's the effect a massive LEGO recreation...
Gamer showed a typical morning in Skyrim after a couple of mods – with Soviet T-34-85 tanks and bomber dragons
Modding Skyrim stopped being about "tweak some textures and add a couple of swords" a long time ago. Fourteen years after release, the community keeps stress-testing Bethesda engine, and every time it turns out there's...
Fallout 4 fan raised an odd question – how many years of cleaning would it take Codsworth to turn the Wasteland from a dump into a decent place to live
The Mr. Handy robot butler series was built for suburban household chores – mowing the lawn, wiping down countertops, cooking dinner. Sending one of these things to clean up a ransacked amusement park where three...
Crimson Desert patches will be released less frequently because the studio has redirected all its efforts to creating expansions
One of the odder surprises from Gamescom Opening Night Live was the reveal of Crimson Desert Enhanced – a kind of rebrand for the RPG from South Korean studio Pearl Abyss. It's not a full...
A gamer paid his last respects to a Skyrim disc from the 2011 midnight release – after 15 years of continuous use, it stopped reading
Physical media collectors love to repeat that a disc can't be deleted from a server and stays with its owner forever. Optical media doesn't know about that promise, and it falls apart on its own...
Gamer completes the Underground storyline in Fallout 4 for the first time after 300 hours and is stunned by the grim finale
Video games rarely punish you for winning. Usually it's the opposite: credits roll, you get a reward, your allies are happy, and there's a sense of accomplishment. So it hit one player especially hard, having...
The Witcher 3 fan compared a shot of Gaunter O'Dimm from the original and the remaster – in the reissue the image got worse due to lighting
Remasters almost always try to sell the same idea: what was dark and murky is now bright and clean. The problem is that in games, "dark and murky" is often not a bug – it's...
The upcoming expansion for The Witcher 3 will feature Geralt's canonical weapon from the books for the first time – a silver chain
At Gamescom, CD Projekt Red finally revealed the long-awaited teaser trailer for the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3. The biggest surprise came from the weapon in Geralt hands – a silver...
A Fallout 4 fan reminded us that fisticuffs isn't just a fun and spectacular way to play, but also a very effective method of completing the game even in survival mode
Melee combat in a post-apocalyptic wasteland already sounds like something for people who've given up on caution. Going up against raiders and super mutants with your bare fists, on survival difficulty, where a single burst...
Skyrim fans reminded that fire arrows and paralysis turn bandits into ballistic projectiles
Physics in Bethesda games rarely behaves the way developers intended. But sometimes two harmless elements combine into something that sends an enemy flying past the horizon faster than they can process what just happened. The...
Many Fallout 4 veterans still don't know about the existence of message-in-a-bottle items in the game that lead to treasures
There's a special kind of discovery that only very old games can offer: a player who's logged a couple thousand hours in a beloved title suddenly stumbles on content they've never seen before. Not a...
Gamer created a handy guide for finding all the Barenziah Stones in Skyrim and claims you'll "definitely thank him later"
Some quests are memorable for their story, and some are memorable for making players grab a notebook. "Thank Me Later" falls into the second category: two dozen identical purple stones scattered across Skyrim without a...
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...
Gamers unanimously consider the lockpicking skill tree in Skyrim to be the most useless, while the final archery skill is simply broken
Skyrim has a special category of perks that seem designed to waste precious perk points. These are abilities that either duplicate each other or become pointless right around the time a player finally reaches them....
Crimson Desert turned out to be so successful that Pearl Abyss paid additional cash bonuses to a thousand employees
Crimson Desert has become one of the most talked-about games of 2026. Pearl Abyss earned roughly $200 million in the first two weeks of sales, and the game's Steam rating climbed past "Very Positive" with...
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...
Fallout 4 fan walked the Freedom Trail in real Boston and was amazed at how meticulously Bethesda recreated the city in the game
A good video game can do more than fill a couple of evenings – sometimes it sends you out into the real world with a map in hand. Virtual walks through ruins occasionally turn into...
A gamer crafted a novice mage's robe from Skyrim in real life – he was hindered by both the game itself and the weather
Armor from Skyrim rarely survives contact with the real world unscathed. Patching a texture in a game engine is one thing – figuring out what material something is actually made of when the models themselves...
