From Mass Effect to Bioshock – game quotes that outlive the games themselves
A Reddit thread asked players to share the video game lines that have stuck in their heads for years. Javik, the last Prothean from Mass Effect 3, took the top spot by a wide margin....
Morrowind veterans remind newcomers that there's no rush in this game – you just need to live in it
Nearly every modern open-world RPG runs on the same panic. The world is burning, dragons are in the sky, Oblivion gates are opening right now, and somehow the player spends the evening picking flowers for...
Cat in a diving helmet becomes the main star of the Crimson Desert expansion
Sometimes a game is sold not by an open world with hundreds of hours of content or mountain-sized bosses, but by one ridiculous detail. Someone ignores a big release for months, then caves when a...
Four years since the announcement of Project Orion: why no one is rushing the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
Game anniversaries usually come up when the countdown is measured in months. But sometimes all a title has is a codename and a line in quarterly reports. Then the anniversary feels more like a wake,...
Leaked nude Lucia from GTA 6 sparks debate over realistic body
A leak from a major game usually promises talk about mechanics, physics, and map size. In practice, attention drifts to exactly where developers would least like it to go. Instead of discussing shootouts and car...
Skyrim fans, 15 years after release, still can't stop admiring the game's atmosphere and art design
Nostalgia is the best retoucher there is. Old games look far better in memory than they ever did, and the brain happily fills in details that were never there. The reverse happens too: a game...
Two-seater rover in Starfield turned rescue missions into a comedy
The bigger the game, the more small details slip through the cracks. And when the question of where to seat a rescued survivor goes unanswered across a galaxy of a thousand planets, a minor oversight...
Gamer ran Morrowind on a CRT monitor and called this approach the "optimal gaming configuration" for the game
Nostalgia has a way of rewriting spec sheets after the fact. A hulking monitor the weight of a small dog, one that hummed, flickered, and ate half the desk, somehow becomes the "optimal gaming setup"...
A Crusader Kings 3 player complained that the Aral Sea is too big – and got a lecture on the USSR and the Mongols in response
Historical strategy games are used to complaints about inaccuracies: wrong coat of arms, wrong dynasty, wrong border. But accusing a game of showing reality better than a modern atlas is a different level entirely. Especially...
Fallout 4 fan shows sunny screenshot with modern graphics that took several hundred mods and an RTX 5090
The Commonwealth in Fallout 4 was never known for good weather. Leaden skies, a greenish haze, and radiation storms have long been the calling card of postnuclear Boston. Getting a normal, clear day over the...
Serana from Skyrim still delights gamers with her habit of resurrecting goats and chickens in battle instead of experienced warriors
A good RPG companion watches your back, carries your loot, and stays out of the way of your sword. Serana from Skyrim watches your back too, just in her own way: mid-fight, with half a...
No Man's Sky player shows off a cozy island where the game generated a settlement and several points of interest
Procedural generation is basically an endless dice roll. Most of the time it lands on another barren rock with a few bushes and a lonely terminal somewhere past the horizon. Every so often, though, the...
Why the Balrog from The Lord of the Rings still looks like a monster with perfect design 25 years later
Computer graphics age too fast. Effects that dropped jaws in the 2000s now often look like a PlayStation 2 cutscene. But one monster seems to have dodged the clock, and it's the fire demon crawling...
A Stellaris player discovered a planet with a stone age population and robots right in the starting star system
Procedural generation loves throwing out surprises that no scriptwriter would come up with. Sometimes it's a rare anomaly or a lucky neighbor, and sometimes it's pure chaos, like a planet of savages with stone axes...
Player who always wanted photorealism spent 10 hours in Skyrim and regretted years of waiting
Graphics age faster than anything else in games. One day a title wows with its tech, and the next its screenshots draw a condescending smile. Sometimes the opposite happens, though, and a game nearly fifteen...
Skyrim player accidentally got two Dawnbreakers instead of one and learned from veterans that many clone this sword on purpose
Daedric artifacts in Skyrim are meant to be one of a kind. Each one comes at the end of a long quest, and owning one is supposed to make the hero special. Sometimes, though, the...
Fallout 4 player mocked 2,000-cap closet in Diamond City compared to free penthouse in Nuka-World – and got plenty of arguments why that home is much better
Role-playing games have always followed their own real estate rules. Saving up for a modest place is almost never worth it: wiping out a couple of gangs and taking over their mansion is cheaper and...
Enthusiast buys $2,500 PS5 dev kit that can't run a single game
The most coveted consoles in collections often never hit store shelves. People pay thousands of dollars for a huge V-shaped box that won't even run its main menu without Sony's permission. One collector showed off...
Arthur Morgan's ghost, or why replaying Red Dead Redemption is sad after the second game
Prequels have a way of rewriting the past, and not just the story kind. Learn how everything started, and an ending that once felt complete suddenly develops gaps. Then it gets absurd: a character the...
Fallout 4 fan builds a pyramid so gigantic in the game without a single mod that it should be visible from space
The settlement system in Fallout 4 was meant to bring a little comfort to the Commonwealth after the nuclear war. Almost 11 years after release, it has turned into a proper sport: who can hit...
