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...
Gamers have already come to terms with the fact that RAM will be in perpetual shortage due to AI corporations
Hoping a burst bubble will bring things back to normal rarely pans out. That's exactly how the situation with memory and storage looks right now, and any hope that RAM and SSD prices will return...
A dead Falmer embraces a captive in Dwemer ruins, and it's one of the darkest details in Skyrim
Skyrim has trained players to look for stories where none officially exist. Stumble across a couple of corpses frozen in an unnatural pose, and the brain does the rest, filling in a tragedy complete with...
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...
