Gamers have started reselling RTX 5090 cards they managed to buy before the insane price surge on top-tier graphics cards
Usually hardware behaves predictably: you buy a flagship, it's worth a third less a year later, and by year two you're almost embarrassed to list it for sale. But the GPU market has managed to...
A Crusader Kings 3 player shared a story typical of this strategy game about the biggest war of the Roman Empire, which started because of the emperor's wife's infidelity
Grand strategy games promise epics – crusades, holy wars, standing against the Mongol horde sweeping in from the east. Then it turns out the biggest bloodbath of an entire campaign had nothing to do with...
Rusty car turned out to be the most dangerous Predator of the Wasteland in Fallout 4 due to typical Bethesda bugs
Some enemies in games you actually prepare for: you hear a deathclaw roar behind a hill, count your ammo, gear up in power armor. Others make no sound, don't show up on the compass, and...
Fallout 4 fan showed how to turn a supermarket shopping cart into an equivalent of power armor using Bethesda's famous game physics
Power armor in Fallout 4 is presented as the pinnacle of pre-war engineering – nuclear cores, servomotors, a dedicated entry animation. But the most reliable shield in the Commonwealth turns out to be a rusty...
Old SSDs turned into Steam game cartridges, and it works better than it sounds
Digital libraries took away the shelf full of game boxes and replaced it with a list of icons and endless redownloading. The longing for physical media never really went away, though, and sometimes it takes...
19 years later, a lost part of God of War finally made it to PS2
God of War series has sold tens of millions of copies, spawned remasters, collector editions, and a move to Norse mythology, but one entry spent almost two decades existing only in the memory of flip...
Four ways to save a PC system unit from a cat
The most expensive space heater in any gamer's apartment sits under the desk, costs as much as a used car, and is officially registered as a gaming PC. Cats figured out this detail long before...
Players are unhappy that games without a discount are becoming the main faces of Steam sales
Steam sale banners work on simple logic: the bigger the picture, the deeper the discount. So when a specific title stares back at you from the cover of yet another themed event, your brain automatically...
Gamer spent three hours in Skyrim's tutorial dungeon to grind hapless Ralof up to level 81
Any RPG with a leveling system eventually runs into a player who finds more joy in breaking the mechanics than following the story. And when the system can be broken without even leaving the tutorial...
A player in Europa Universalis 5 completed a legendary achievement of the entire franchise and conquered the whole world as Ryukyu
Developers of grand strategy games love to insist that conquering the entire map in their titles is impossible – the mechanics won't allow it, the economy will collapse, control will tank. That claim usually holds...
Fallout 4 fans recalled the best companion interactions – Strong and Hancock, and Danse and Valentine are the most memorable
Companions in Fallout 4 usually exist for two reasons: carrying loot and soaking up bullets meant for the hero. But what actually sticks in people's memory isn't their combat stats – it's the moment a...
Gamers laugh at fans of realism in GTA 6 who will need sun visors on the windshield
The desire for realism in open-world games has long crossed the line where immersion ends and simulation of daily chores begins. First it's filling the tank with gas, then turn signals and seatbelts, and it's...
Second Chance – Games That Don't Click at First but Become Masterpieces
Game quality gets treated like a fixed value, similar to weight or length. In practice it depends on mood, age, tiredness, and how much sleep you got, so the same game can feel like dull...
A Fallout 4 fan noticed that Desdemona from the Railroad crosses out the player's name from the list of living agents immediately after teleporting into the Institute
Usually a hero dies in an RPG behind a loading screen, and the world around them never even notices. Much creepier is the other version, where you're alive, well, and locked inside a suit of...
Sent an RTX 4090 in for warranty service and got back money from 2023
Warranty coverage is supposed to work as insurance against trouble, but in a world where graphics cards get more expensive faster than they wear out, it can end up working against the owner instead. A...
Three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077 at night – how a younger brother figured out how to hijack a powerful PC via Steam Remote Play
A home PC feels like a completely personal thing, until a teenager with motivation and a free evening shows up in the house. Then it turns out your graphics card has its own nightlife, and...
An enthusiast placed all the regions of the Red Dead Redemption duology on a real map of America – from Montana to Cuba
Rockstar never builds exact copies of real places – the studio assembles America as a collage of recognizable details. Snow-capped peaks sit next to swamps, and you can gallop from windswept plains to a cactus-dotted...
A Stellaris player asked if it's normal to have only three wins in 400 hours – and found out that's actually a lot
In grand strategy games, the victory screen has become a rare artifact that plenty of players have never actually seen. It is a genre where hundreds of hours logged offer zero guarantee that anyone will...
Players think Two Fingers from Elden Ring reference the legendary way of positioning fingers on a gamepad for playing soulslikes
Sometimes the most convincing lore theory doesn't need a single line of item description text or an hour spent rereading dialogue. All it takes is looking down from the screen to your own hands resting...
Gamers recommend the best games for a depressive mood – Elden Ring and Shadow of the Colossus top the list
When life feels heavy, a gamer basically has two contradictory prescriptions, and both work. Either dive headfirst into melancholy, into the fog, the empty ruins, and the lonely hero nobody thanks for anything, or fire...
