Independence in the games industry sounds proud, but in practice it often means every release becomes a bet on the whole company. That feels especially true when the fate of one of Europe's most distinctive...

Some storylines fans don't forgive for decades, and The End Times from the Warhammer universe has long held a place of honor on that list. Games Workshop literally blew up its own world, the one...

RAM is usually bought with room to grow, but computers outgrow it faster than any other component. Not long ago, 16 GB felt like a comfortable cushion for gaming. In 2026, that cushion can vanish...

Some of the creepiest scenes in a film are the ones most viewers never got to see in theaters. Worse, in just five minutes of screen time, a noble king becomes a war criminal, and...

In the wasteland, the value of an item rarely matches its weight. The skeleton of pre-war civilization gets stripped for screws, glue, and copper wire, and the most unwieldy trophy around turns out to be...

In RPGs, being polite is usually the safe choice. Say a few warm words to a companion, nod in agreement, and collect a bump in approval with no strings attached. Especially when there's no heart...

Numbers in hardware names have long lived their own lives and say almost nothing about performance. It gets absurd when the "bigger number, better card" logic lets a 17-year-old GPU beat a current flagship. After...

Big updates to older games work like a lottery. New textures and lighting almost always come bundled with surprises, and some of them look like genuine witcher magic. Case in point: Geralt's gray-haired mentor calmly...

Futuristic car design in games almost always grows out of a very earthly garage. An artist can paint all the neon, chrome, and flying cars they want, but beneath the 2077 gloss, the silhouettes of...

Building a PC has its share of nerve-racking steps: seating the CPU in the socket, applying thermal paste, the first boot. But for several generations of enthusiasts, the real final boss has been a handful...

You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, as everyone knows. The trouble starts when the horse isn't visible at all, and the rider glides over the ground with legs spread wide, occasionally sinking...

Buying a console at the tail end of a generation used to be a near-guaranteed win. Wait for the hardware to get cheaper and the game library to fill out, then grab everything for the...

The scariest stories in RPGs often hide in optional caves that are easy to walk past. World-eaters and Daedric Princes scare with sheer scale. What really makes you recoil from the screen is a small...

Making a faction strong is easy. Making it convincing is much harder, especially when an army of archers is nearly untouchable in its home woods and noticeably weaker in the open. That's not a bug,...

Heroic self-sacrifice only works when the hero has no other way out. When a radiation-immune super mutant nearly three meters tall is standing right there, the grand sacrifice turns into an absurdity. The Savior of...

Remakes and reboots have long been the safest bet in the games industry, but the choice of what gets dug up often feels like a lottery. Some series get a third life in a row,...

Some games are so huge that missing content over an entire playthrough is easy. You can spend years in a world, earn the platinum trophy, ride thousands of miles, and never glance at the river...

The main quest in a big RPG is usually considered the backbone of the game, but that rule doesn't apply to Skyrim. There, the core storyline has turned into an optional formality players can put...

Newcomers to long-running strategy games almost never stop to think that the title they're playing once looked completely different. With Paradox Interactive, that gap can be especially stark. Some of its games have expanded over...

A pacifist run in an RPG is often an illusion of clean hands. A player can go the entire game without pulling the trigger once, but someone else will gladly do the dirty work for...