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Ubisoft will revise the design of some creatures in the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 remake after fan criticism
Ubisoft laid out how it plans to handle the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 remake after the mixed reaction to its reveal. Ubisoft promises closer work with the community, a rethink of some creature...
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...
The last trip to Seyda Neen: an elderly gamer decided to replay his beloved Morrowind before he dies and asked the community for advice on which version to install
Some games are played, and others are lived in. Players return to them like a hometown where every crack in the pavement is familiar. For a whole generation, that place is still Vvardenfell, with its...
Skyrim player noticed that Alva from Morthal is different from all the other vampires in the game – fans found a lore explanation for it
The best way to hide a monster is to not hide it at all. That goes double when every other bloodsucker in the area glows like a busted lantern, while one lone vampire strolls around...
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...
PewDiePie released an uncensored AI model for home PCs and got banned by OpenAI for distillation
Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, unveiled Ajax – a custom language model that runs locally on a home computer. According to Kjellberg, OpenAI banned his account twice during development, and one of the emails shown...
Creators of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering unionize and speak out against management forcing AI on them at Wizards of the Coast
Developers behind Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering have announced they're unionizing under United Wizards of the Coast – CWA. Workers are asking Wizards of the Coast to voluntarily recognize the organization. Among their...
Players review-bomb Gears of War: E-Day on Steam over strong Black women
Gears of War: E-Day ran into a wave of negative reviews on Steam right after launch. Some players are criticizing content they call "woke." Still, fans are back with Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago for...
From Mass Effect to Bioshock – game quotes that outlive the games themselves
A Reddit thread asked players to share the video game lines that have stuck in their heads for years. Javik, the last Prothean from Mass Effect 3, took the top spot by a wide margin....
Avengers: Doomsday poster shows the first incursion in Marvel history and 11 heroes
The new international poster for Avengers: Doomsday dropped overnight, with the Marvel epic about two months from release. The poster gathers every character confirmed to appear in the film, along with one of the story's...
California authorities demand an end to fights between humans and 180-centimeter robots
The California State Athletic Commission has issued an official warning to Robot Entertainment Kombat (REK), a robot fighting league. The trigger was a cage fight between a human and a humanoid robot, staged in September....
Modder moved graphics card to an unusual spot and cut hotspot temperature by 19 °C
The desktop PC layout has been refined for decades, so it would be logical to assume it has reached an optimal state. TrashBench, an enthusiast known for his cooling experiments, decided to put that to...
Morrowind veterans remind newcomers that there's no rush in this game – you just need to live in it
Nearly every modern open-world RPG runs on the same panic. The world is burning, dragons are in the sky, Oblivion gates are opening right now, and somehow the player spends the evening picking flowers for...
Fraudster earned $8 million from AI songs for bot listeners and got 18 months in prison
Schemes that turn almost nothing into a fortune have long captured the imagination. Magic: The Gathering players know the classic Channel and Fireball combo, which can end a game on the spot. In 2000, engineer...
Three new GTA 6 screenshots show night-time Vice City with neon, reflections and a street meetup
Rockstar Games shared details about the Grand Theft Auto 6 radio stations and released promo material that gives players an early taste of the in-game airwaves. Alongside the announcement, the studio dropped three new screenshots,...
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...
150-year-old elm growing almost horizontally named tree of the year in the UK
A 150-year-old wych elm from Northern Ireland that has grown almost completely sideways has been named the UK's Tree of the Year for 2026 by the Woodland Trust. The tree stands in the seaside town...
Some gamers are glad they've learned not to buy games on Steam sales that will just gather dust in their library
For more than a decade, Steam sales trained players into a simple reflex: see a red price tag, hit "buy," and figure out when to play later. Lately the script has flipped, and the flex...
Joe Russo explained why Doctor Doom is almost impossible to defeat in the new "Avengers"
Joe Russo explained what makes Doctor Doom more dangerous than the previous villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Avengers: Doomsday, the franchise's top heroes unite against him, and judging by the footage shown so...
