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In the pre-release version of the By God Alone expansion for Crusader Kings 3, the Pope could have several wives and sire bastards due to a bug
On January 3, 902, the Christian church split in Crusader Kings 3. The Roman Rite became Catholicism, while the Greek Rite turned into Orthodoxy, followed by the Byzantine Empire. The player, as Pope, took charge...
Modder turns all griffins in The Witcher 3 into legendary low-poly pigeons
Modder grapedia released Low-Poly Pigeon – The Revenge for The Witcher 3. The mod turns every Griffin in the game into the angular bird players know from the long-running meme. For anyone out of the...
Bethesda shuts down viral AI-made Fallout: New York browser game
A fan-made Fallout: New York built with Claude is no more after its creator received a letter from ZeniMax. The browser game moved Fallout to New York and featured 117 locations, 112 characters, and 46...
20 new games and 0 hours in them – the Steam autumn sale is filling up your backlog again
Every longtime gamer has a graveyard of games they bought but never launched. Seasonal sales keep it well stocked. Sometimes a person with a hundred untouched titles in their library opens the store thinking, "well,...
Modder adds an entire chapter to Baldur's Gate 3 between the second and third acts
In mid-September, modder SquallyDaBeanz released Act Two Expansion, a solo-developed custom campaign for Baldur's Gate 3, in beta. The mod adds an extra chapter to the main story. The new content sits between the second...
The game that shouldn't exist – how Elden Ring has so much content
Some games impress with sheer scale, and others are hard to believe exist at all. Especially when a player with 30 years of gaming under his belt catches himself thinking that building what he's seeing...
Why the wizard in Baldur's Gate 3 silently watches the barbarian fail a magic check
RPGs love to talk about friendship, trust, and a tight-knit party, but the mechanics sometimes shatter that idyll with a roll of the d20. Picture a hero with the intelligence of a stool trying to...
The Witcher 3 fans split into two camps: some complain about overly drastic combat changes, while others don't notice them at all
Improving something millions of players have already beaten inside and out is one of the most thankless jobs in game development. Changes either go unnoticed entirely or get noticed too well, and then your own...
Even after a thousand hours in Baldur's Gate 3, you can still find new content in the first act
A good RPG is usually praised for its scale, but a great one gets praised for what most players never see. It gets absurd when someone with a thousand hours on the clock sits down...
Billionaire and Valve boss Gabe Newell refitted one of his yachts into a 93-meter base for deep-sea diving
Oceanco will present Draak, the yacht owned by Valve boss Gabe Newell, at the FLIBS show in Fort Lauderdale, US, running from October 28 to November 1, 2026. The 92.9-meter vessel recently debuted at the...
The famous VLC player has been playing almost everything for 25 years, but the orange cone now has competitors
Some programs get installed on a fresh PC almost by reflex, even before the graphics drivers. Over time, that kind of software earns a reputation as an all-powerful tool. With VLC, people expect it to...
The Witcher 3 remaster made dungeons brighter and monsters funnier
Darkness in games works as well as any soundtrack, because the scariest things are the ones you can't see. But flood a dungeon with even light and render every brick, and the monster around the...
Fallout 4 fan used a couple of mods to turn the game into a gritty trench shooter with Warhammer 40k vibes
Every Fallout game opens with a reminder that war never changes, yet the series barely shows players the war itself. The nuclear apocalypse happens offscreen, and the hero emerges into the ruins decades or even...
The developers of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 wanted to send players to a new region from the start, but are doing everything they can to dodge questions about the main villain
CD Projekt RED is keeping most story details of the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past under wraps. The studio has shown the setting and a few characters Geralt will meet, but the...
Insider calculates that Remedy needs to sell 2.5 million copies of Control Resonant to remain independent
Independence in the games industry sounds proud, but in practice it often means every release becomes a bet on the whole company. That feels especially true when the fate of one of Europe's most distinctive...
Total War: Warhammer 3 fans think the Lords of the End Times DLC worked a miracle and managed to show a sane version of the End Times
Some storylines fans don't forgive for decades, and The End Times from the Warhammer universe has long held a place of honor on that list. Games Workshop literally blew up its own world, the one...
Josh Sawyer explained that gamers often misunderstand game mechanics, and this needs to be taken into account during development
If you've played XCOM, you know the feeling: the screen shows a 95% chance to hit, you take the shot, and... miss. Statistics work like that sometimes. Josh Sawyer, the legendary RPG director behind Fallout:...
44 years ago Sony released the world's first CD player, and adjusted for inflation it cost about $3,700
44 years ago, on October 1, 1982, Sony put the world's first consumer CD player on sale. The CDP-101 kicked off the era of digital audio on compact discs, and shoppers in Japan could pick...
Why 16 GB of RAM in 2026 runs out before a game even launches
RAM is usually bought with room to grow, but computers outgrow it faster than any other component. Not long ago, 16 GB felt like a comfortable cushion for gaming. In 2026, that cushion can vanish...
Deleted scene from The Return of the King where Aragorn broke the laws of war
Some of the creepiest scenes in a film are the ones most viewers never got to see in theaters. Worse, in just five minutes of screen time, a noble king becomes a war criminal, and...
