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How to keep Republican Spain alive when a Great Power coalition forms, updated for patch 1.13.9 and the naval and diplomacy overhaul in Update 1.13 Matcha / The Great Wave.

Thinking about a soundbar for PC gaming? Learn why TV-style bars disappoint at 50–80 cm and how to pick speakers that actually sound great on a desk.

Great Body and Advanced Armor before anything else, then Blood Thirsty, then gear unlocks, then damage. The Tier 3/4 point order that stops the floating islands killing you.

Every active All Star Tower Defense code for July 2026 with verified rewards and level requirements, plus how to tell ASTD codes apart from All Star Tower Defense X codes.

All 12 confirmed characters and 4 stages in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls explained, plus how 4v4 teams and dynamic arenas actually work in play.

I tested MSI’s Vector 16 HX with an RTX 5070 Ti and 240Hz QHD panel. It’s crazy-fast for the money, but loud fans and a tiny SSD hold it back.

Slay the Spire 2 mostly feels like a sharper sequel, but its co-op mode completely rewires how you think about relics, healing, and deckbuilding.

Why the Game Boy Advance still has a permanent place in my bag The Game Boy Advance turned 25 this year, and I can still feel that first time I slid fresh AA batteries into the translucent purple model and fired up a chunky little cartridge. No backlight, no sleep mode, just pure focus on […]

Why Screenshot Quizzes Hit Open-World Gamers So Hard PC Gamer recently dropped a timed quiz that absolutely ate my lunch: 15 screenshots of open-world landscapes, four minutes on the clock, no HUD, no characters, just pure scenery. It’s brutal in the best way. You realise really fast which games you’ve genuinely lived in, and which […]

Mortismal Gaming is drawing a hard line on which mods he’ll review. As someone who lives in Bethesda mod hell, I think he’s mostly right – and still too…

Between DLSS 5, Backrooms horror, the Fatal Frame 2 remake and Pathologic 3, AI visuals are quietly rewriting how games feel – and not always for the…

I used to love 4‑hour MMO dungeon crawls. Now, if a “quick run” eats my whole evening, I’m out. Here’s why session length needs a reality check.

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 promises to make your games look “ultra”. What I see is an AI filter steamrolling style, faces, and years of real artistic work.

After hundreds of hours in Baldur’s Gate 3, Skyrim, and Mass Effect, I’m done pretending blank-slate protagonists are the “pure” RPG experience.

Marathon’s “realism graphic” art made me fall hard for Bungie’s extraction shooter, but the plagiarism scandal won’t let me enjoy it guilt‑free.

Midnight’s “simplified” class design is turning World of Warcraft into a two-minute burst MMO like FF14 – and it’s wrecking world content and alt leveling.

As someone who actually lives with anxiety, Grace’s panic in Resident Evil Requiem hit uncomfortably close to home—and turned the horror up to eleven.

After 10 brutal hours in The Division 2’s Realistic Mode, I’m convinced Ubisoft just found the future of the series – if they have the guts to commit.

I hate most crafting games, but Pokopia wrecked me. It turns building houses into preserving your childhood Pokémon memories, not just grinding.

After weeks with MLB The Show 26, the new Trade Hub and RTTS tweaks impressed me, but stale visuals and Diamond Dynasty’s 20-card cap dragged it down.

After cracking Ascended Heroes boxes, I’m convinced: this Pokémon TCG set is a gorgeous collector feast that mostly skips the meta.

Watching The Crew vanish from my library was the moment DRM snapped for me. If pirates have more reliable access than paying players, the system is broken.

A single 7-minute 1v1 in Bungie’s Marathon summed up everything I love and hate about extraction shooters, from audio paranoia to loadout-value dread.

Looking back at 2017, I’m convinced we didn’t realise how good we had it: battle royale was new, mobile puzzles peaked, and gacha still felt fresh.