The small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia isn't famous for coal or the Ohio River, but for a winged creature with glowing red eyes. The legend of the Mothman dates back to 1966, when...

A computer case stopped being just a box for hardware a long time ago – these days it's a showcase of tempered glass, RGB lighting, and vertically mounted graphics cards. But there was a period...

Ghoul, played by Walton Goggins, doesn't seem bothered by the radioactive sun of Pomona – footage from the set of Fallout season three shows the character looking just as menacing as he did in season...

Good acting in games usually gets judged by voice work and facial animation as a whole. But Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 raises the bar to a different level entirely – whole monologues get delivered through...

Fallout 4 has plenty of bugs that have already become memes, but few of them let you literally go to sleep and wake up owning millions of rounds of ammunition. All it takes is leaving...

Technology has gotten so user-friendly that an entire generation grew up without ever looking under the hood, let alone accidentally deleting the System32 folder from Windows. Phones turn on by themselves, apps update themselves, and...

Spending hundreds of hours in an open world without noticing an entire mechanic sounds like a bug, but in Skyrim it's just a natural result of how the game treats sleep. Rest isn't required for...

The Washington D.C. subway in Fallout 3 is still where playthroughs go to die. Players head down there for a quest, lose their bearings among identical tunnels, and can't find the right exit. Some of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...