Times are tough. Prices are rising, upgrading hardware is almost impossible, and the future is as vague as possible. All this is stressful and drains energy, which can make even the most positive gamers sad. Fortunately, there are games that perfectly distract from the hustle and bustle and fill you with energy. These are the projects we have collected in this selection!

Games based on H. P. Lovecraft have been produced since 1993 — during this time a lot of interesting good stuff has been released. For example, the other day the Russian publisher 1C released an excellent retro shooter Forgive Me Father. What other games about Cthulhu are worth paying attention to? Now we'll tell you!

What keeps us up until the morning, and it's not the release of PlayStation or PC exclusives? Love! Eternal and pure feeling. It's great that fiction dramaturgy regularly turns to love themes. Monsters, assassins, stealing cars and saving planets — it's all great. But where would we be without l'amour in games?

Diablo Immortal had high hopes. The authors really managed to create a good project with sticky gameplay and pleasant visuals, but the advantages were overshadowed by the terrible monetization. In the end, we are talking about one of the most underrated games of all time. But this is not the first time that a clumsy donation has dragged a potential hit to the bottom. In this collection we have collected ten projects with terrible monetization!

Many respected Hollywood filmmakers love games so much that they are not afraid to invest their creative power in promotion, marketing and trailers for large game franchises, including Halo, Dead Space, Resident Evil and many others. In this article, we will talk about some of the most striking game trailers, which were directed by seven famous directors.

Aspyr studio released a port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2. Unfortunately, it turned out that it was impossible to complete the legendary RPG — it was all because of a crash at an important plot point. This is not the first time that technical problems have disrupted the passage of an excellent game. In this collection, we have collected nine projects that made gamers suffer due to a critical bug!

Todd Howard is a game director who led the development of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind and Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4, as well as Starfield. He is currently an executive producer for Bethesda Game Studios. But the developer became famous online largely thanks to memes featuring him. The phrase «Buy Skyrim!» heard by everyone who is even slightly interested in the gaming industry. In this article we have collected the most interesting facts from the biography of Todd Howard.

In the nineties and early 2000s, YouTube did not yet exist, and the main marketing tool was television, where advertising was more daring, stubborn and hooligan than now.

Genshin Impact is a real phenomenon and a gold mine for the miHoYo studio. The project includes everything that gamers love: a huge open world, many quests and, of course, dozens of cute anime girls and boys. It seems that it is impossible to tear yourself away from the game — regular updates steadily advance the plot and add entire continents. However, everything gets boring. If for some reason you start to get bored and want to play something similar, it's time to check out our top clones. In this article, we have collected 11 projects that are similar to Genshin in both atmosphere and gameplay.

Recently, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA Games published the results of a poll that selected the best game sequel in history. Competing for the first place were Half-Life 2, Mass Effect 2, Portal 2, and Red Dead Redemption 2.