Console gamers got mods for The Witcher 3 and a ton of bugs: one player was left with only Geralt's head and two swords
Mods usually promise to make a favorite game better, prettier, and more convenient. Sometimes they just make it thinner. So thin that all that remains of the main hero is a head, a white mane,...
Corkscrew rockets and a couple of perks: why few players choose the rocket launcher arm in Cyberpunk 2077
Of the four cyberarm options in Cyberpunk 2077, the Projectile Launch System sounds the most "cyberpunk" on paper, yet in practice it remains the least noticed. Mantis Blades have long been the calling card of...
Players are advised to spend their first day in GTA 6 without exploring the whole map – the Saint Denis lesson from Red Dead Redemption 2
The release of GTA 6 is still ahead, but YouTube is already packed with videos along the lines of "10 things to do on day one." Nearly all of them give the same advice: comb...
Take Jackie to his mom and don't rush in Embers: 10 tips for Cyberpunk 2077 beginners
The second season of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime has sent another wave of newcomers into Cyberpunk 2077. Night City veterans welcomed them in their own way and piled on advice that sounds like gibberish and...
Edgerunners season two takes place in 2078 and erases the Cyberpunk 2077 ending from canon
Games with multiple endings sooner or later run into an awkward question: what actually happened? As long as the universe lives inside a single title, "however you played it" works for everyone. Once an anime...
Enthusiast 3D-printed Mantis Blades from Cyberpunk 2077, and they turned out to be a handy gadget
Cyberpunk has spent decades warning about a future where people stuff weapons under their skin and lose their minds to chrome overload. Reality will probably be far more mundane. Give someone extendable combat limbs, and...
Novice gamer launched Skyrim for the first time and couldn't even make it to Helgen because his horse suddenly started breakdancing
Some games forgive bugs, while in others glitches eventually become part of the mythology. But when a title breaks within the first half minute, before the hero even reaches the chopping block, that's a whole...
Modder added full-fledged portals to Skyrim, but everyone is arguing about Claude
Portals like the ones in Valve Portal have arrived in Skyrim, except here they come from a spell instead of a portal gun. A new mod for Special Edition adds a pair of magical gateways...
Recreating GTA 6 screenshots in GTA 5 made players notice how terribly outdated the previous installment of the series is
Graphics don't age on their own – the next game ages them. Until someone raises the bar, yesterday's masterpiece looks like the peak of photorealism. With Grand Theft Auto the effect gets absurd, since the...
A Fallout 4 newbie failed to figure out the supply line mechanics and turned the Commonwealth into a web of settlements, with an entire army of provisioners wandering between them
Logistics in games rarely worries anyone until players get too creative with it. A tidy route scheme between bases slowly turns into a conspiracy theorist wall covered in red string. And along every strand marches...
Gamer began to suspect something was off when his Crusader Kings 3 dog outlived three rulers and celebrated its 150th anniversary
Medieval strategy games teach players that everything dies. Kings are killed on hunts, heirs get poisoned at dinner, and dynasties fall apart over one bad marriage. Occasionally, though, the game produces a character the rules...
No Man's Sky player spent 28 hours building a beautiful base, then learned firsthand that people who like to ruin other players' builds exist
Endless space looks like the perfect place to be left alone. A player can hop between stars for years without meeting a soul. But build something beautiful and show it off, and the infinite universe...
Valve split achievements in Steam, and players consider this update one of the best in its history
Achievement hunting runs on a feeling of closure: the final checkmark, the coveted 100%, and the game can be put to rest with a clear conscience. But that fragile harmony shatters at the slightest nudge....
Fallout 4 fans still debate which protagonist is better to pick, and most prefer Nora over Nate
In most RPGs, picking the hero's gender takes a couple of seconds and is forgotten by the first dungeon. Once the protagonist gets a voice, everything changes. Players are choosing an actor, a delivery, and...
One badly thrown Molotov cocktail turned the console version of Fallout 4 into an acid trip
Bugs in Bethesda games have long since become a genre of their own. Sometimes a random rendering glitch produces an image no studio artist would ever have come up with. The nuclear wasteland suddenly glows...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has suddenly become a symbol of recent protests in France
A good game eventually stops belonging to its creators and starts living its own life. Usually that means memes, cosplay, and fan art. It's a different story when a line from a fantasy RPG ends...
18 years later, Fallout 3 still makes people want to play
The best games sometimes sit in a library for years, bought for pennies in a sale and forgotten. Then one of them suddenly does what neither competitive online shooters nor fresh releases could. A person...
The last trip to Seyda Neen: an elderly gamer decided to replay his beloved Morrowind before he dies and asked the community for advice on which version to install
Some games are played, and others are lived in. Players return to them like a hometown where every crack in the pavement is familiar. For a whole generation, that place is still Vvardenfell, with its...
Skyrim player noticed that Alva from Morthal is different from all the other vampires in the game – fans found a lore explanation for it
The best way to hide a monster is to not hide it at all. That goes double when every other bloodsucker in the area glows like a busted lantern, while one lone vampire strolls around...
Pearl Abyss significantly improved Crimson Desert's combat system but didn't tell anyone
Patch notes are usually read like a contract: whatever is listed is what changed. But sometimes the most interesting changes never make the list, and players learn about a combat overhaul not from the studio...
