A Windows 11 update revealed a 2-decade old bug in GTA: San Andreas that yeets CJ at ‘1.087 quadrillion light years’ into the stratosphere

Game developer and modder Silent, perhaps best-known for the SilentPatches he’s released for various games including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, has stumbled across (and fixed) a bug that’s been lying dormant for two decades. And while this manifestation was, apparently, triggered by a new build of Windows 11, it’s been there the whole time….

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Nexus Mods decides to allow an Oblivion Remastered mod that changes ‘body type’ options to male/female, declares it’s not ‘a battleground for broader cultural or political debates’

One of the very, very small changes in Oblivion Remastered is a switch in the character creator from “male” and “female” bodies, as it was in the original, to “body type 1” and “body type 2.” It’s the sort of thing that would likely go entirely unnoticed were it not for the distressingly predictable explosion…

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We can finally play 2006’s flip phone-exclusive Monster Hunter port thanks to the tireless work of game preservationists and fan translators

Despite being a devoted Monster Hunter sicko for well over a decade now, even I didn’t know about Monster Hunter i. And for good reason: The 2006 port of Monster Hunter G wasn’t just a Japan-only release—it was a keitai game, released exclusively for early 2000s Japanese cell phones. It was Monster Hunter’s first game…

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