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Fallout 4 player found an 80-pound barbell bar and thought it was the heaviest item in the game – then someone showed them a 160-pound dumbbell
In the wasteland, the value of an item rarely matches its weight. The skeleton of pre-war civilization gets stripped for screws, glue, and copper wire, and the most unwieldy trophy around turns out to be...
Politeness as a seduction strategy, or how to accidentally sleep with the entire camp in Baldur's Gate 3
In RPGs, being polite is usually the safe choice. Say a few warm words to a companion, nod in agreement, and collect a bump in approval with no strings attached. Especially when there's no heart...
One message in Twitch chat gave a hacker full control over a streamer's PC through OBS
Security researcher Dylan Ifrig-Bourfa from the Swiss branch of Orange Cyberdefense (SCRT team) demonstrated an attack chain where a single Twitch chat message leads to arbitrary code execution on a streamer PC. The attack required...
Gamers fondly remember a 2008 graphics card with an anime girl on the box
Numbers in hardware names have long lived their own lives and say almost nothing about performance. It gets absurd when the "bigger number, better card" logic lets a 17-year-old GPU beat a current flagship. After...
ARC Raiders' success has led the Embark Studios team to burnout
ARC Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal has spoken at length about how brutal live service development can be. The constant need to ship new content can quickly lead to creative and physical burnout. Speaking to...
The Witcher 3 players joke about Vesemir riding an invisible horse around White Orchard after the remaster release
Big updates to older games work like a lottery. New textures and lighting almost always come bundled with surprises, and some of them look like genuine witcher magic. Case in point: Geralt's gray-haired mentor calmly...
8 cars from Cyberpunk 2077 and their real-life counterparts: From Mustang to garbage truck
Futuristic car design in games almost always grows out of a very earthly garage. An artist can paint all the neon, chrome, and flying cars they want, but beneath the 2077 gloss, the silhouettes of...
Eight pins and 30 years of suffering: how PC builders thank the creator of the single connector for the power button
Building a PC has its share of nerve-racking steps: seating the CPU in the socket, applying thermal paste, the first boot. But for several generations of enthusiasts, the real final boss has been a handful...
Fans of The Witcher 3 are disappointed with the remaster, which turned out to be packed with bugs
You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, as everyone knows. The trouble starts when the horse isn't visible at all, and the rider glides over the ground with legs spread wide, occasionally sinking...
CD Projekt RED releases patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remaster with DLSS and fix for dark interiors
CD Projekt RED released a patch for the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Updated Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series. The Xbox Play Anywhere version on PC also got its own fix. The studio announced...
FBI arrests a member of the ShinyHunters hacker group that hacked GTA 6
The FBI has confirmed the arrest of "one of the alleged leaders" of the hacking group ShinyHunters. The group claimed responsibility for the hack of Rockstar Games in April 2026. As reported by Reuters, Dutch...
Gamers nostalgically recall the days when you could buy a PS4 with Marvel's Spider-Man for $200
Buying a console at the tail end of a generation used to be a near-guaranteed win. Wait for the hardware to get cheaper and the game library to fill out, then grab everything for the...
One PC setting rids The Witcher 3 Remastered of its washed-out picture
The Witcher 3 Remastered launched this week, and early impressions of the re-release are mostly positive. Lighting has sparked the most debate. The updated visuals are noticeably brighter than the original, and some fans of...
Zotac refused warranty on an RTX 3060 a year after purchase because it decided to count service from the manufacturing date
Zotac denied warranty service to an owner of a GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge in India. On paper, the card should still be covered, since Zotac offers three years of standard warranty in the country...
Skyrim player reaches Yngvild's cave for the first time in 14 years and is appalled by the local necromancer's vileness – now he wants more content like this in The Elder Scrolls 6
The scariest stories in RPGs often hide in optional caves that are easy to walk past. World-eaters and Daedric Princes scare with sheer scale. What really makes you recoil from the screen is a small...
Some Total War: Warhammer fans consider wood elves a benchmark faction – with unique mechanics and full lore accuracy
Making a faction strong is easy. Making it convincing is much harder, especially when an army of archers is nearly untouchable in its home woods and noticeably weaker in the open. That's not a bug,...
Super mutant vs button – why Fallout 3's ending has annoyed players for 17 years
Heroic self-sacrifice only works when the hero has no other way out. When a radiation-immune super mutant nearly three meters tall is standing right there, the grand sacrifice turns into an absurdity. The Savior of...
Manga titles have doubled in length over 15 years, and the words "Isekai" and "Reincarnation" appear in them more and more often
Japanese e-book distributor and publisher BookLive analyzed manga titles, sales, and buying habits over the past 15 years. The study turned up several clear shifts. The average title length for a first volume grew from...
BBC head says he was sent a 50-minute AI-made episode of Doctor Who – and it was "not bad"
BBC boss Matt Brittin has shared his thoughts on AI and revealed that someone sent him an AI-generated episode of Doctor Who. Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference, he rated the result fairly highly....
Rockstar made no compromises on GTA 6 despite enormous pressure
Rockstar North leadership has explained how the studio is handling player expectations around GTA 6. In a Game Informer cover story about the game, studio co-head Aaron Garbut admitted that the pressure on the team...
