A hidden spiderweb puzzle in Red Dead Redemption 2 went unnoticed for years. Just as players were making progress, they realized they may have missed its opening move: a seven-year-old pentagram mystery they had been treating as something separate.
Super Mario Bros. has been played and analyzed frame by frame since 1985, and its world record is just four frames short of the theoretical target. Yet in 2026, researchers found a way to run their own code inside the game — following a clue from an entirely different Mario title.
Around 59% of the anti-cheat games tracked by Are We Anti-Cheat Yet are broken on Linux/Proton or have been explicitly denied support. Yet EAC and BattlEye have Proton-compatible paths. For major games such as Apex Legends, the obstacle is often a developer's security decision rather than a technical impossibility.
A creeper blew up GPT-6 Astra's chest, and the model spent hours farming potatoes. The internet called it 'depression.' That interpretation is unproven, but the incident raises a useful question about recovering from setbacks.
Four picks from the Microsoft Store's PC game sale: edition differences, bundle contents, and supported platforms to help you avoid paying for extras you don't need.
The industry narrative is simple: publishers fled GTA 6 and piled into September. A game-by-game look shows the pattern is real, but the evidence behind it is far more fragmented than the story suggests.
The Remastered edition launches free on September 29, and the older expansions are now free too. Taken together, these moves look less like goodwill gestures and more like a product lifecycle strategy.
DLSS has spent years being associated with higher performance. DLSS 5 does the opposite: it can significantly reduce frame rate in exchange for reinterpreting how the game looks. That is where the controversy begins.
