CD Projekt RED reminded everyone that The Witcher wouldn't have been released without BioWare
CD Projekt RED marked the 19th anniversary of the first game in the series and reminded fans of the direct support it received from the developers of Mass Effect. BioWare is gone, but the legacy...
Corkscrew rockets and a couple of perks: why few players choose the rocket launcher arm in Cyberpunk 2077
Of the four cyberarm options in Cyberpunk 2077, the Projectile Launch System sounds the most "cyberpunk" on paper, yet in practice it remains the least noticed. Mantis Blades have long been the calling card of...
Take Jackie to his mom and don't rush in Embers: 10 tips for Cyberpunk 2077 beginners
The second season of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime has sent another wave of newcomers into Cyberpunk 2077. Night City veterans welcomed them in their own way and piled on advice that sounds like gibberish and...
Former BioWare employee shares raw trailer for cancelled Mass Effect Universe – it looks like a spy action game
A Mass Effect 5 trailer was reportedly ready to go before EA canceled the game and shut BioWare down. The claim surfaced on Reddit, in the subreddit for Austin, Texas, where BioWare had a studio....
Enthusiast 3D-printed Mantis Blades from Cyberpunk 2077, and they turned out to be a handy gadget
Cyberpunk has spent decades warning about a future where people stuff weapons under their skin and lose their minds to chrome overload. Reality will probably be far more mundane. Give someone extendable combat limbs, and...
Modder added full-fledged portals to Skyrim, but everyone is arguing about Claude
Portals like the ones in Valve Portal have arrived in Skyrim, except here they come from a spell instead of a portal gun. A new mod for Special Edition adds a pair of magical gateways...
Everyone dreamed of making their own Fallout, and thanks to AI that dream is becoming reality, but Rad New World proves that not everyone should be doing it
Rad New World from Frontline Games Series looks like a postcard from 1997. It has an isometric view, a lone wanderer, a scorched wasteland, and a world map with random encounters. The developer openly calls...
More than three years after release, not all players have seen the location from Baldur's Gate 3's main menu
A gloomy temple with a giant skull greets everyone who launches Baldur's Gate 3, yet not every player is convinced it exists in the game itself. It does. It's the Temple of Bhaal, one of...
24 classes and 4 trillion builds in No Rest for the Wicked 1.0, but the developers aren't afraid of balance issues
Moon Studios has revealed details of the massive 1.0 update for No Rest for the Wicked. The action RPG has been in early access since April 2024, and this patch will strip out its old...
New The Witcher 3 mod automatically switches path tracing between 8 regions, interiors and combat
A new mod called Dynamic Region Graphics is out for The Witcher 3 Remastered, letting players decide exactly where path tracing kicks in and where lighter graphics settings are enough. Path tracing support on PC...
18 years later, Fallout 3 still makes people want to play
The best games sometimes sit in a library for years, bought for pennies in a sale and forgotten. Then one of them suddenly does what neither competitive online shooters nor fresh releases could. A person...
AION 2 reached almost 400,000 concurrent players on Steam after global launch – available for free
NC has launched AION 2 globally. Early access is over, the technical problems from the first days are fixed, and the South Korean MMORPG is one of the loudest starts of the year. Peak concurrent...
Pearl Abyss significantly improved Crimson Desert's combat system but didn't tell anyone
Patch notes are usually read like a contract: whatever is listed is what changed. But sometimes the most interesting changes never make the list, and players learn about a combat overhaul not from the studio...
Cat in a diving helmet becomes the main star of the Crimson Desert expansion
Sometimes a game is sold not by an open world with hundreds of hours of content or mountain-sized bosses, but by one ridiculous detail. Someone ignores a big release for months, then caves when a...
Fallout 4 gets a new city with voiced NPCs and more than 600 lines of dialogue
A group of veteran Fallout 4 modders has added a whole new town to the Wasteland. Called Detour, the settlement is designed as a new quest hub where players can trade, rest up, and pick...
Player who always wanted photorealism spent 10 hours in Skyrim and regretted years of waiting
Graphics age faster than anything else in games. One day a title wows with its tech, and the next its screenshots draw a condescending smile. Sometimes the opposite happens, though, and a game nearly fifteen...
Life-size Fallout protectron cosplay that people mistake for screenshots
The strangest compliment a video game cosplay can get is "this isn't cosplay." When a costume is so accurate that viewers hunt for a game interface in the frame, suspect upscaling mods, and flat-out refuse...
The memorial wall is almost full – how Mass Effect 3 begins for the worst Shepard
BioWare spent years selling the Mass Effect trilogy on the promise that every decision carries weight. Most players treat that as an unspoken challenge: save everyone, earn every squadmate's loyalty, and reach the finale with...
I've launched Skyrim with the first snow for 15 years in a row – gamers were surprised by a man from the Urals who has snow outside his window in October
Some games get played once. Others come back on a schedule, like a Christmas tree or a bowl of tangerines. The most interesting schedules are set by the weather outside, when the first snowfall matters...
Don't slaughter the cows in The Witcher 3's prologue – otherwise the game turns into a horror movie
Starting areas in RPGs usually run on an unspoken agreement. The world goes easy on the hero and throws a few wolves, drowners, and a couple of clumsy bandits their way. Sometimes that deal falls...
