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Mod with 725 thousand downloads to be officially included in The Witcher 3 Remastered
CD Projekt RED brought in one of the community most well-known modders to work on The Witcher 3 Remastered. The developer in question goes by "HalkHogan" and created The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project NextGen...
Modern Warfare 4 developers will fix balding Captain Price – players nicknamed him "Lieutenant Receding"
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 developers have promised to fix Captain Price's look, whose haircut became a target for jokes during the beta test. The beta kicked off on August 21, and throughout it,...
Players noticed an abundance of attractive heroines in trailers at gamescom, but almost all the games turned out to be Asian
A roundup of seven shots featuring female characters from Gamescom Opening Night Live trailers caught the attention of a certain corner of gamers. In the original post on X, the trend got linked to audience...
4A Games has made ray tracing mandatory in Metro 2039, and it can't be turned off
The rendering engine in Metro 2039 got rebuilt from scratch around ray tracing, and the graphics settings menu won't have a toggle for it. 4A Games executive producer John Bloch told WCCFTech that the game...
"Avengers: Endgame" is preparing to surpass $3 billion at the box office – partly thanks to new color grading
Re-releases stopped being a nostalgic nod to classics a while ago and turned into their own revenue stream. Studios bring films back for anniversaries, for sequels, for basically any excuse, and now they're also tweaking...
A gamer paid his last respects to a Skyrim disc from the 2011 midnight release – after 15 years of continuous use, it stopped reading
Physical media collectors love to repeat that a disc can't be deleted from a server and stays with its owner forever. Optical media doesn't know about that promise, and it falls apart on its own...
Why the Power Armor in Fallout Was Translated into Spanish as Servo Armor
Localizing science fiction isn't really translation – it's more like inventing names from scratch. A term that sounds mundane and technical in English can easily turn into pompous nonsense straight out of a kids cartoon...
Footage of the flood on the border of Nepal and Tibet showed how a wall of water swept away villages, bridges and power plants
A massive flash flood tore through the Bhote Koshi riverbed in Nepal's Rasuwa district on the morning of August 26, wiping out villages, roads, and hydroelectric plants along the way. Authorities confirmed at least eight...
New trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros reveals Arya Stark and The Mountain
PlaySide Studios released a hero reveal trailer for the PC strategy game Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, this time putting Arya Stark in the spotlight. The clip shows off the deadly assassin skills she...
How "potato PCs" with 4 GB of RAM survive into 2026 and what OS they run on
The concept of a "weak computer" has drifted so far over the past decade that hardly anyone agrees on where the line sits anymore. Machines with 32GB of memory, eight-core Xeons, and a GTX 1080...
In "Spider-Man: New Day" Peter Parker earns $28,080 a year – but he doesn't stay broke
YouTuber Talkin' Bout crunched the numbers on Peter Parker budget from Spider-Man: Brand New Day and came up with a figure of $594 in leftover cash for the year. That sounds pretty rough, especially considering...
Rockstar showed 3 hours of GTA 6 gameplay – details and impressions from a preview participant
Rockstar Games flew the host of the TGG channel from Australia to Edinburgh for an early look at GTA 6, well ahead of the public release. At the Rockstar North office, the studio showed him...
Gamer completes the Underground storyline in Fallout 4 for the first time after 300 hours and is stunned by the grim finale
Video games rarely punish you for winning. Usually it's the opposite: credits roll, you get a reward, your allies are happy, and there's a sense of accomplishment. So it hit one player especially hard, having...
The Witcher 3 fan compared a shot of Gaunter O'Dimm from the original and the remaster – in the reissue the image got worse due to lighting
Remasters almost always try to sell the same idea: what was dark and murky is now bright and clean. The problem is that in games, "dark and murky" is often not a bug – it's...
PS2 owner filmed a dramatic video about the graphics chip failing right during a race
A short clip filmed by a CRT gaming enthusiast starts out as a regular race down a coastal track. Then the yellow car and the surrounding environment start breaking apart into polygons, textures slide off...
Premiere of Lanterns on HBO Max turned out to be more successful than The Penguin and Peacemaker
Lanterns from DC Studios kicked off with strong numbers, beating out other major releases on the platform. Over its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, the series pulled in 9.3 million viewers globally...
Hidetaka Miyazaki didn't want to create ordinary vampires, so the creatures from The Duskbloods will have their own unique design and story
Hidetaka Miyazaki, legendary FromSoftware director, talked about the principles behind character creation in The Duskbloods. According to the developer, the studio is deliberately moving away from traditional notions of vampires and monsters, favoring a broader...
Viggo Mortensen paid a hefty legal bill for stunt performers on the set of "The Lord of the Rings"
The gap between a screen hero and the person playing him is usually measured by the size of the PR budget. Sometimes, though, it works the other way around, and an actor turns out to...
The Elder Scrolls Skyrim with 1800 mods looks like a next-gen gacha
Mods for The Elder Scrolls Skyrim have no ceiling – only the limits of your hardware and your taste. You start by upgrading grass textures, and a year later you've got 1800 plugins installed, Helgen...
Creator of the first Windows Task Manager wrote a new version using AI – the specification took 107 pages
Dave W. Plummer, the Microsoft engineer behind the original Windows Task Manager, has released a new version of his utility called TMOG (Task Manager OG). The app runs not just on Windows 11 but also...
