Reviews
Inscryption keeps rewriting its own rules — and somehow gets away with it
After 120 hours with Inscryption, here's where Daniel Mullins Games's latest lands on the Roguelike Deck-builder ladder.
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Street Fighter 6 finally makes the genre feel like an invitation
After 60 hours with Street Fighter 6, here's where Capcom's latest lands on the Fighting ladder.
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Crusader Kings III turns family trees into crime scenes
After 32 hours with Crusader Kings III, here's where Paradox Development Studio's latest lands on the Grand Strategy ladder.
Guides
Dirt roads before granaries — Manor Lords punishes impatience
A practical guide for newcomers and intermediate players. No filler.
Guides
Los Santos rewards the patient criminal, not the reckless one
A practical guide for newcomers and intermediate players. No filler.
Guides
The 7 best casino-heist games of all time
From Payday to GTA V's Diamond mission — the casino-heist genre's signature set-pieces, ranked.
News
From CS:GO skins to NFT cosmetics — what changed, what didn't
Tradable in-game items predate the NFT moment by 15 years. A retrospective on what crypto-cosmetics tried to do differently — and where they landed.
News
Why some studios won't ship a loot box anymore — interviews with three indies
Three small studios explain, on the record, why they ruled out random-reward monetization for their next title. Lessons from a design choice.
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If you loved Ocean's Eleven, these 6 heist games are your next stop
The Soderbergh film triggered a wave of high-stakes heist games. Here's the lineage, in playing order.
Esports
Nova9 arrived at TGS — patch 1.0 rewrote the game under them
Tracking the competitive scene around Dota 2.
Esports
Reign came to PAX East ready — patch 2.6 had other plans
Tracking the competitive scene around Elden Ring.