What Games Should Still Be Added to the Perfect 2000s Gamer Desktop
Any attempt to build a complete list of games from an entire era ends the same way – someone always finds a gap the size of Homeworld. And when the topic is Windows 95 and...
Fallout creator's face has been hidden in the game's icon for almost 30 years
A joke made for future hardware doesn't stay a joke forever. Developers in the 90s hid gags in places they figured nobody would reach for another twenty years, and then technology caught up and spilled...
Many Fallout 4 veterans still don't know about the existence of message-in-a-bottle items in the game that lead to treasures
There's a special kind of discovery that only very old games can offer: a player who's logged a couple thousand hours in a beloved title suddenly stumbles on content they've never seen before. Not a...
Action games based on "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" are considered among the best Lord of the Rings games by fans
A good measure of how alive a game still is isn't its launch-day scores but how many people argue about its mechanics from memory two decades later. EA action games based on Peter Jackson trilogy...
Beautiful, expensive, and unbearable – games where you want to skip every cutscene
Game technology keeps improving at breakneck speed, but writing departments don't get the same treatment – if anything, they're usually the first thing studios cut. Developers can render individual skin pores, simulate fabric physics down...
Gamer created a handy guide for finding all the Barenziah Stones in Skyrim and claims you'll "definitely thank him later"
Some quests are memorable for their story, and some are memorable for making players grab a notebook. "Thank Me Later" falls into the second category: two dozen identical purple stones scattered across Skyrim without a...
Slay the Spire 2 fan came up with cards so interesting that the game's developer promised to "steal" them
Coming up with new cards when you're making a deckbuilder must be tough. You have to keep finding inventive ways to push players and the game without breaking it. But for the Slay the Spire...
Crusader Kings 3 fan spent a whole hour creating an exact copy of herself in the game, and she's already ready to seduce the Pope
Character creators have basically become the unofficial exam for any game with a portrait system: shape up some nameless barbarian and everything looks fine, but try to recreate your own face, and the whole thing...
PC Games – a user bought an app for a gamepad, got banned, and was forced to download a pirated version of what he paid for
Software for a controller that can ban users sounds like a contradiction in terms. A program whose only job is to make vibration, adaptive triggers, and lighting work on a DualSense in PC games shouldn't...
Games that many gamers refuse to launch even out of curiosity – Tarkov, Rust, Fortnite, PUBG and soulslikes
Refusing to try a game is rarely about taste. More often it comes down to cold calculation: someone already knows how much time, patience, and money a game will demand, and decides not to open...
Fallout 4 fan decided to find out if it's possible to meet Virgil at the very beginning of the game – the answer was disappointing
Any open-world game eventually tempts players into an experiment: what if you just sprint straight to the final location? Skip the quest chain, ignore every clue, and head directly for wherever the story would take...
Users consider those who put the taskbar on the left side of Windows to be crazy
Where to put the Start button is a question that can split any Windows community faster than a browser tab argument. Some people jump straight into settings after a fresh install and shove the menu...
Power connector on the side of MSI gaming laptop makes no sense at all
Laptop design logic should be predictable: bulky cables run to the back of the case so they stay out of the way, and ports you reach for constantly sit far from your actual workspace. But...
Reddit user showed 16 years of his life through Red Dead Redemption photos
A Reddit user going by Rybowflavin shared a series of three photos on r/reddeadredemption, posted, showing himself holding boxed copies of Red Dead Redemption 1, 2, and the remaster of the first game over a...
Old age in Crusader Kings 3 has become too harsh after recent patches – just like in real life
Reaching old age in Crusader Kings 3 is a questionable pleasure. One moment your character is winning tournaments, weaving plots, and building an empire, and the next you open the character sheet and spot the...
Wire vs. air – experts continue to debate why wired internet is better than Wi-Fi
Renovating a new house can mean a lot of things, but running gigabit Ethernet to every single room before the furniture even shows up puts you in a different league entirely. One Redditor described spending...
Gamers unanimously consider the lockpicking skill tree in Skyrim to be the most useless, while the final archery skill is simply broken
Skyrim has a special category of perks that seem designed to waste precious perk points. These are abilities that either duplicate each other or become pointless right around the time a player finally reaches them....
An enthusiast made a surprisingly high-quality Ring of Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings for his future wife
Proposing with a ring inspired by Galadriel artifact – now that's an idea as beautiful as it is bold. Nenya, one of the three elven Rings of Power in Tolkien lore, was never meant to...
Stellaris fans joke that the patch adding the ability to center the emblem on their empire's flag has finally made the strategy game playable
Sometimes real happiness for strategy fans doesn't come from a new ship class or an overhaul of an entire game system – it comes from finally being able to center an emblem on your empire...
Cities Skylines player built the worst place to live – next to a crematorium, a waste incineration plant, a sewage outlet, and an airport
Even the most talented and skilled architect gets tired of building practical, comfortable, and attractive places to live sometimes. That's when they turn to experiments that make you understand why comic book villains do what...
