Skyrim fan only learned after 200 hours in the game that he was supposed to sleep in a bed
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...
How to save a car you like in Cyberpunk 2077
Spotting the car of your dreams on the streets of Night City is easy. Actually keeping it is a different story. Cyberpunk 2077 isn't GTA, and yanking the driver out of their seat won't let...
Players with hundreds of hours in Crimson Desert have figured out why the RPG looks like both a graphics benchmark and a release from 2015
Shimmering puddles and 4K armor, blurred foliage during the four-to-five a.m. and six-to-eight p.m. windows, a trail behind wyvern wings against the clouds... That's the list of complaints one player compiled after 200 hours in...
Fallout 3 players recalled how they couldn't get through the metro because the map was hidden in terminals
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...
Oblivion developer, 20 years later, still remembers a quest that the game completed by itself
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered art lead Dan Lee shared a story that explains why Bethesda Game Studios games are still considered a benchmark for living open worlds. Lee joined the studio shortly after...
Cyberpunk 2077 fans appreciated the concept of Johnny Silverhand through millennia, from a cave painting to "Star Wars"
The success of Cyberpunk 2077 was built on more than just Night City neon and Johnny Silverhand rock-and-roll terrorism. A lot of it came down to a near-universal rebellion formula, where the whole point is...
Skyrim player showed bread and a piece of cheese in 8K from a 600 GB mod pack
The LoreRim modpack for Skyrim has become the perfect example of what texture resolution wars have done to modding. The install eats up as much space as a dozen modern game releases combined, and the...
An investigation has begun in Canada – how a mistake in a Skyrim fan's nickname led to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison
Canadian officials have launched an investigation into how an innocent man ended up spending 18 months behind bars after police confused his username, inspired by Skyrim, with a nearly identical account. Brandon Klayme was acquitted...
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...
Diablo 2 researcher discovered that the cathedral's stained glass windows from the fourth act turned out to be monsters, and they can be broken
A breakdown of strange locations in Diablo II made veterans with twenty-five years of experience admit that some of these spots they'd never actually seen. This isn't about hidden levels, but objects players ran past...
Larian showed 10 rarest endings of Baldur's Gate 3, including the worst fates of Lae'zel and Astarion
Larian senior community manager Aiofe Wilson showcased 10 extremely rare endings and moments from Baldur's Gate 3, packing a surprising number of unexpected plot twists into just a few minutes of footage.Spoilers for Baldur's Gate...
Only 5.6% of players completed the rarest quest in The Witcher 3
Game Checklists, a site that works with progress trackers for achievement hunters, dug through data from more than three thousand The Witcher 3 player profiles to figure out which quests get skipped the most. Incomplete...
A gamer revealed that his late grandfather left behind an official Skyrim guidebook, sparking an existential crisis among fans of the series
A gamer recently shared photos online of an official Skyrim guide found among the belongings of their recently deceased grandfather, calling the book "old merch." That phrase hit the audience harder than the story itself...
New mod for Fallout 4 completely overhauls shooting with customizable weapon inertia and movement
Modder TheShinyHaxorus released an impressive mod for Fallout 4. It adds fully customizable weapon and first-person movement inertia, along with several useful features that improve the overall feel of shooting. In the original version of...
Fallout 3 fan asked the remaster's developers to get rid of Rivet City's loading screens
Bethesda Game Studios officially confirmed remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, though no release dates were given. Discussion after the announcement quickly turned to a question that matters more to players than graphics....
Larian released update 1.096 for Baldur's Gate 3 and launched a 30% discount
One of the best RPGs of the decade keeps getting support. Larian Studios released a new patch for Baldur's Gate 3. The studio previously said the major content update with new features that launched a...
The Dark Urge to Start All Over Again – Players Explain Why They Replay Baldur's Gate 3 Ten Times
Some games are impossible to "finish" in the traditional sense. You reach the credits, save Baldur's Gate, kill Ketheric Thorm, and a couple of weeks later find yourself creating a new character, swearing this time...
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...
A Crimson Desert player tried to sail off the edge of the map and got swallowed by a monstrous giant
One Crimson Desert player decided to find out what happens if you sail to the edge of the map by boat – and discovered that Pearl Abyss had prepared quite the surprise for curious seafarers.Warning:...
Starfield is coming to PS5 and getting free flight between planets in a star system
Bethesda held a short stream focused on the near future of Starfield and confirmed several long-anticipated announcements. The biggest ones: the game is coming to PS5, and a major update called Free Lanes is on...
