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...
Millennial generation is absolutely dissatisfied with zoomers who don't want to understand technology and the simplest technologies
Technology has gotten so user-friendly that an entire generation grew up without ever looking under the hood, let alone accidentally deleting the System32 folder from Windows. Phones turn on by themselves, apps update themselves, and...
Skyrim fan only learned after 200 hours in the game that he was supposed to sleep in a bed
Spending hundreds of hours in an open world without noticing an entire mechanic sounds like a bug, but in Skyrim it's just a natural result of how the game treats sleep. Rest isn't required for...
Fallout 3 players recalled how they couldn't get through the metro because the map was hidden in terminals
The Washington D.C. subway in Fallout 3 is still where playthroughs go to die. Players head down there for a quest, lose their bearings among identical tunnels, and can't find the right exit. Some of...
Gamers still consider the Pripyat mission in Call of Duty 4 and Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 to be the best in history of video games
Some missions you just click through, while others stick in your memory for years and pop right back up the moment someone mentions the game's name. These are the moments that fuel the endless debate...
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...
How powerful is Galadriel – analysis of the might of the elf who conquered Dol Guldur
Trying to measure the "power" of Tolkien characters like some kind of anime power scale almost always ends in failure, because Middle-earth runs on completely different rules. Might here isn't about how much you can...
Why the Alliance didn't care about the millions of abducted colonists in Mass Effect 2
Space colonization in the Mass Effect universe works in a way that part of humanity flat out refuses to live under the Systems Alliance umbrella. People head out to the Terminus frontier specifically so the...
Gamers tried to figure out why electricity doesn't work if you plug a plug in between two outlets
A regular power strip works in such a basic way that it seems impossible to break its logic. Under the plastic casing hide two long metal bars: one connects all the live contacts, the other...
Gamers are amazed by the design of a limited-edition case from 2011, which will finally get an upgrade
PC cases rarely survive more than a couple of upgrades. Usually people swap them out along with the motherboard, or just when they get tired of the old design. But sometimes hardware comes along that...
Players have chosen the highest quality trilogies in the gaming industry – Mass Effect, God of War, Metal Gear Solid, and Batman: Arkham are leading
There's a special category of game series where you don't have to pick a favorite entry. Three games in a row turn out so consistent in quality that debating the best one becomes a pleasant...
Gamers are happy for those who are starting Mass Effect for the first time, and chose the most memorable moments from the game
Playing through a cult trilogy for the first time is a rare kind of luck, and longtime fans openly envy it. When someone sits down with the original Mass Effect without knowing a single plot...
A sister recommended Red Dead Redemption 2 to her brother, but regretted this decision after he decided to skip all the cutscenes
Playing through a favorite game together sounds like the perfect bonding activity. In practice, it can turn into quiet torture if the person sitting next to you treats story-driven titles like an obstacle course to...
RTX 4090 servicing photos confirm that you shouldn't smoke near your PC
Smoking near your PC can turn even a top-tier graphics card into something resembling an archaeological find. Knowing that in theory is one thing. Actually seeing a GeForce RTX 4090 heatsink caked in an even...
Skyscraper in Mongolia turned out to be a copy of the PS5 long before its announcement
Sometimes architecture beats industrial design to the punch by a decade or more. The clearest example shows up when a glass and concrete office tower ends up mirroring the silhouette of a gaming console that...
Gamer built a modern PC in an old-school case with a Turbo button and digital display
There was a time when computer power got measured not by benchmarks, but by the size of blinking red digits on the case. Toggle switches, seven-segment displays, heavy metal buttons labeled Turbo, and the obligatory...
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...
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...
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...
Fans bring drawings and other works to Tolkien's grave in Oxford – it has turned into a place of pilgrimage for fans
The resting place of the man who created Middle-earth looks surprisingly modest for someone whose influence on fantasy culture is hard to overstate. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried at Wolvercote...
