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Why the Alliance didn't care about the millions of abducted colonists in Mass Effect 2
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...
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...
PC enthusiast sent liquid cooling directly onto the die of an RTX 2060 and lowered the temperature from 70°C to 28°C
An enthusiast going by the name TrashBench ran a radical GPU cooling experiment, ditching traditional heatsinks for direct water contact with the graphics chip silicon. The result turned out impressive, with temperatures dropping from 70°C...
No Man's Sky to receive major Cosmos update 10 years after release
About a decade ago, Hello Games launched its long-awaited space game No Man's Sky. The launch was shaky, to put it mildly, but every update since has helped turn the 2016 title into a full-fledged...
Player with amnesia found their own sign in a Minecraft cave and couldn't remember what scared them so much
A screenshot from a cave in Minecraft featuring a wooden sign has apparently become the foundation for some genuinely unsettling theories. The sign, shared by a player, warns against digging down: Do not dig down!...
"The Odyssey" brought Christopher Nolan into the top-3 highest-grossing directors of all time
The film "The Odyssey" has already pulled in more than $1 billion worldwide, rewriting Christopher Nolan career stats in the process. Combined earnings across all his films now sit close to $7 billion, up from...
Minimalist Arise Dark Lord combines strategy and action in the spirit of Tolkien
Introversion Software has announced Arise Dark Lord, a hybrid game that mixes action, real-time strategy, tower defense, and base building. Players take control of a Dark Lord and raise an army of the undead to...
Dozens of different Xenomorphs in the new Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 trailer
Daybreak Games and Cold Iron Studios have revealed a new trailer for Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, confirming along the way that the game is heading to Nintendo Switch 2. That version arrives later this year,...
Gamers tried to figure out why electricity doesn't work if you plug a plug in between two outlets
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...
Unity reported its best quarter in history thanks to the success of the Vector AI platform
Unity called its latest financial results the best in its history as a public company. CEO Matt Bromberg credited the growth in overall revenue and Grow Solutions revenue to the ongoing success of the Unity...
Gamers are amazed by the design of a limited-edition case from 2011, which will finally get an upgrade
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...
Survival in an RV in a zombie world in the first trailer for In the Van
Cosmic Tofu has announced In the Van, a cozy survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players build a life inside a mobile base on wheels. The game page is already live on Steam....
Players have chosen the highest quality trilogies in the gaming industry – Mass Effect, God of War, Metal Gear Solid, and Batman: Arkham are leading
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...
Claude Opus 5 deleted the entire developer profile during a backup and replied "Sorry, typo"
A developer using Claude Code shared a serious mistake their AI tool made, one that ended up wiping an entire drive. According to Ecstatic-Big5126, they had asked Opus 5 to back up their system. While...
Gamer used AI Claude to create free protection for RTX 5090 from power connector melting
Many owners of NVIDIA top-end graphics cards live in fear of the high-density 12 4-pin connector that powers their GPUs. This connector has shown questionable reliability compared to older PCI Express connectors, largely due to...
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...
Devolver Digital goes private after 95 percent stock crash
When indie publisher Devolver, known for Hotline Miami, The Talos Principle, and Baby Steps, announced its stock market debut, the move already seemed odd at the time. In 2021, listing on the London Stock Exchange's...
Many cute heroines and an unusual setting in the trailer for the tactical sci-fi RPG Angelic Dark Symphony
Angelicore Game Studios released the first cinematic teaser for Angelic: Dark Symphony – a turn-based tactical RPG with a dark sci-fi narrative. The setting builds on a post-apocalyptic premise: humanity destroyed Earth, then created immortal...
YouTuber made an impressive AI clip based on Nolan's "The Odyssey" in the style of "Apocalypse Now" in Vietnamese jungles
Homer's Odyssey has been through countless adaptations over the millennia, but few expected the ancient Greek epic to end up trekking through the jungles of Vietnam. YouTuber demonflyingfox released a musical AI video reimagining Nolan's...
