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Naughty Dog Designer Called Uncharted Development "a Real Hell" Because of PS3 and Attempts to Imitate Gears of War and Tomb Raider
The first Nathan Drake adventure launched in November 2007 and marked a complete reinvention for Naughty Dog: the studio left its cartoonish platformers behind and dove into a cinematic third-person shooter. As it turns out,...
Solo developer built a 3D ASCII-style city in JavaScript in a single HTML file
ASCII art was born from limitations. Artists had to build recognizable images out of a fixed, equal-width character set, and those constraints created an aesthetic that still lives on today. Traces of the style show...
The Cost of Hope DLC for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was released along with update 2.0
GSC Game World has released Cost of Hope, the first story expansion for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. A new trailer accompanies the launch, revealing the setup of the story and the key players caught...
GTA 6 hacker demanded public apology from Rockstar and threatened other publishers
A hacker going by CyberLeek, responsible for the massive GTA 6 leaks, published a document called the "CYBERLEEK Edict" laying out demands for the games industry. The text lists three "commandments," with violators facing unspecified...
Skyrim players and modders raise money for lawyers after complaint from ENBSeries developer
In early August 2026, the Community Shaders team released an update that turned the open-source graphics framework for Skyrim into a direct competitor to ENBSeries. A few weeks later, ENBSeries developer Boris Vorontsov filed a...
Developer used Claude to write a macOS driver and got an HP printer, designed only for Windows, to work
HP Laser series printers use a closed protocol that limits printing to Windows machines only. One owner of this hardware found a workaround by having Anthropic Claude write a macOS driver for him. The printer...
James Gunn responded to accusations of "lack of a unified tone" in the new DCU films and series and pointed out that "it was the same in the comics"
DC Studios boss James Gunn has jumped to the defense of the DCU, pushing back against complaints about tonal whiplash between its various entries. The debate kicked off after the premiere of Lanterns, a show...
Simulation of a billion atoms showed that tungsten in fusion reactors degrades faster than predicted
Physicists at the University of Helsinki ran large-scale numerical simulations and found that tungsten, the leading candidate for the plasma-facing wall of tokamak fusion reactors, degrades under neutron radiation considerably more than earlier calculations suggested....
Cyberpunk 2077 does have cyberpsychosis mechanics after all, and every player ends up reaching it
Cyberpunk tabletop games ran on a simple deal for decades: want metal arms, pay with a piece of your humanity. In Cyberpunk 2077 that deal got quietly dropped, and it turns out that without it...
Minecraft player builds a working AI chatbot in the sandbox from 445 thousand command blocks without a single mod
The Minecraft community has spent years building graphing calculators, QR code generators, and even Tetris inside the game using redstone and command blocks. A player known as Objz took things further and built a working...
Hackers leaked another 2 minutes of GTA 6 gameplay – the recording appears to be from the 2025 version
Another gameplay clip from GTA 6 hit the web, and the group behind the leaks, CyberLeek, has laid out demands for Rockstar for the first time. Both recordings come from unfinished builds of the game....
PC Games – a user bought an app for a gamepad, got banned, and was forced to download a pirated version of what he paid for
Software for a controller that can ban users sounds like a contradiction in terms. A program whose only job is to make vibration, adaptive triggers, and lighting work on a DualSense in PC games shouldn't...
New mod for Skyrim adds localized damage and reworked weapon balance
Modder Seb263 has released a mod for The Elder Scrolls V that adds a localized damage system, armor effectiveness, weapon balance, and combat context for deeper, more tactical fights. Going into more detail, the mod...
Phison's head believes that the shortage of NAND flash memory and the rising cost of SSDs will last another four years
The memory crisis that kicked off in 2025 and already rewrote RAM and SSD price tags worldwide isn't slowing down anytime soon, according to the latest comments from the industry. Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng laid...
China Prematurely Removes Windows 10 in Government Agencies – Special OS Version Retires a Year Ahead of Schedule
China's Ministry of State Security has told a number of state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their computers. Bloomberg reports this, citing people familiar with the matter. The order accelerates...
Low-quality Chinese animated film Niu Lai grossed $2.5 million on a budget of around $200
The Chinese animated film Niu Lai ("Here Comes the Bull") pulled in more than 17 million yuan against a budget of just a few thousand yuan, giving it the best return-to-cost ratio of anything released...
Games that many gamers refuse to launch even out of curiosity – Tarkov, Rust, Fortnite, PUBG and soulslikes
Refusing to try a game is rarely about taste. More often it comes down to cold calculation: someone already knows how much time, patience, and money a game will demand, and decides not to open...
Fallout 4 fan decided to find out if it's possible to meet Virgil at the very beginning of the game – the answer was disappointing
Any open-world game eventually tempts players into an experiment: what if you just sprint straight to the final location? Skip the quest chain, ignore every clue, and head directly for wherever the story would take...
Half of paid games on Steam earned less than $3,600, while the top 1% of the most successful releases brought in 85% of the revenue
A new analysis of 99,206 paid games on Steam shows just how polarized the economics of Valve's platform have become. Half the catalogue has earned less than $3,622 over its entire lifetime, while the top...
Open-source library turns any area on the map into a poster
Developer Marcelo Prates has released prettymaps, an open-source library that turns any patch of map into a styled poster. Just type in a place name or coordinates, and the code pulls geometry from OpenStreetMap and...
