Hilarious Skyrim Clip Shows Why Players Should Never Open a Book While Slow Time is In Effect

One of Super Mario 64’s few remaining mysteries has been solved, thanks to a player who figured out how to open a previously “unopenable” door from the 1996 Nintendo 64 classic. We can thank a nearly four-hour YouTube video that exhaustively detailed how invisible walls work in Super Mario 64, and the tenacity of the game’s community for the new discovery.

The Nintendo Switch seems to be leaving quite a bit of performance on the table at its vanilla clock speeds, judging from a new overclocking test video shared online.

If you only tend to follow the biggest video game releases, it may seem like the Nintendo Switch is currently in a game drought. The system has only gotten a handful of niche releases last year, like Endless Ocean: Luminous, that haven’t been Zelda-level hits. Zoom out a bit, though, and you’ll find that Nintendo’s aging system is still thriving. That’s thanks to vibrant indie and third-party scenes that are keeping the platform engaging.

A Skyrim player was saved from a ferocious Frost Troll in the game by an unlikely entity—a grizzly bear that could have also killed them. While this encounter seems like just the latest in a long history of bugs and glitches in Skyrim, this is a common occurrence in the game that's been reported by players for years.

A Skyrim player with nearly ten years of experience in the game has discovered that the Throw Voice shout in the game makes the Dragonborn talk. This detail may have been missed by players who rarely use this particular shout during their Skyrim adventures, or those who play certain character types.

It’s always an exciting week when the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time surprise releases on a Monday. That’s what happened on May 6 when Hades 2 surprise launched into early access. Players are already diving into the surprisingly robust roguelike, testing their might in its new biomes. I’ve been enjoying it myself from the comfort of my couch — and not on my Nintendo Switch, where I played the first Hades. Instead, I’m curled up with my Steam Deck.

A creative and skillful Pokemon fan and artist has made a new drawing depicting what it would look like if Mawile had a human form. The humanized renditions, which include a version for regular Mawile as well as Mega Mawile, makes clever use of the Pokemon's unusual design, yielding some seriously impressive results.

A Skyrim fan has crafted a real-life gift box that requires the ability to lockpick as players do in the game. There are many Skyrim skills for gamers to level up as they progress across the open world, but lockpicking has taken on a new form with this gift box.

A series of hilarious Destiny 2 clips showcase a group of players failing at teamwork from different angles. While attempting to work together in Destiny 2's new Onslaught mode, the team's plan goes horribly wrong.

A Skyrim player online has shared their awesome dragon bone cross stitch, which pays tribute to one of the items in the game by poking fun at the carry weight mechanic. Although Skyrim is now almost 13 years old, gamers are still finding ways to show their appreciation for Bethesda’s RPG.

Former Nintendo employees have revealed that, despite its public announcement, Xenoblade Chronicles was originally planned to go without a North American release. Xenoblade Chronicles is one of Nintendo's most popular RPG series, with its pedigree allowing developer Monolith Soft to become one of Nintendo's most reliable first-party studios. However, none of Xenoblade's success would have been possible without the very first entry released on the Nintendo Wii all the way back in 2010.

A Skyrim streamer online has developed an awesome mod that allows their Twitch chat to speak in place of NPCs, with hilarious results. While the Skyrim modding scene is among the most active in any game, this particular creation is some of the most unique work to emerge in a long time.