Team Spectre Has One Patch and One Night to Matter
Tracking the competitive scene around Counter-Strike 2.
Manor Lords Builds Beauty, Then Lets It Quietly Rot
After 47 hours with Manor Lords, here’s where Slavic Magic’s latest lands on the City-Builder ladder.
Nova9 Are Betting Everything on Patch 2.1 at The Game Awards
Tracking the competitive scene around Valorant.
Reign Walked Into PAX East and Let Patch 4.4 Do the Talking
Tracking the competitive scene around Valorant.
The complete guide to Red Dead Redemption 2 poker — every variant, every showdown
Where to play, how to read the AI tell-tells, and which towns host the highest stakes. A full RDR2 poker walkthrough.
Frostpunk Made Me a Monster, and I’d Do It Again
After 47 hours with Frostpunk, here’s where 11 bit studios’s latest lands on the Survival City-builder ladder.
Street Fighter 6 Hits Like It Has Nothing to Prove
After 60 hours with Street Fighter 6, here’s where Capcom’s latest lands on the Fighting ladder.
Why every great heist game eventually heads to the vault
Design analysis: what’s so structurally satisfying about putting a high-stakes set-piece at the end of a heist campaign?
Songs of Conquest Finally Earns Its Heroes Lineage
After 32 hours with Songs of Conquest, here’s where Lavapotion’s latest lands on the Turn-based Strategy ladder.