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PREVIEW | TOTAL WAR: MEDIEVAL III | THE BANNER RISES AGAIN

The wait around Total War: Medieval III does not feel like normal sequel anticipation. This is not just another entry in a long-running strategy series, because Medieval II: Total War became one of those old PC games that kept breathing long after its own generation ended. Mods, campaigns, faction stories, crusades, collapsing kingdoms and messy diplomacy kept the medieval setting alive for years, even while the official series moved through Rome, Warhammer...

PUBLISHED | O6.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | THE BLOOD OF DAWNWALKER | SUN, BLOOD & CHOICE

A medieval valley under vampire rule, a family running out of time and a protagonist trapped between human weakness and monstrous hunger give The Blood of Dawnwalker a sharper identity than another dark fantasy RPG with swords, castles and blood on the stone. Rebel Wolves is not selling only mood here. The studio is building its first major game around pressure, dual nature and consequence, with Coen moving through a world where daylight and night...

PUBLISHED | O5.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | SOLASTA II | WELCOME SOLASTA, WE MISSED THE DICE ...

Solasta II enters the CRPG conversation at a strange but useful moment. Baldur’s Gate 3 made the genre bigger, louder and more visible than it had been for years, but it also created a problem for every smaller tactical RPG that follows it: comparison is now unavoidable. Tactical Adventures cannot simply pretend that shadow is not there. The smarter move is to step around it, and that is where Solasta II becomes interesting. This is not a game trying to win with...

PUBLISHED | O4.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | COMPANY OF HEROES 3: FINAL STAND | THE RTS SHAKE-UP

Company of Heroes has never been a series that chases trends, and that's one of the reasons it has remained relevant for so many years. Instead of relying on massive armies or flashy spectacle, it has always rewarded smart tactics, careful positioning and making the right decision when the battlefield is at its most chaotic. Final Stand keeps those familiar foundations intact, but it also introduces one of the biggest changes the franchise has attempted in...

PUBLISHED | O3.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | FIVE ERAS, ONE JOURNEY

Stories about organized crime have been part of video games for decades, but very few attempt to capture how an entire lifetime can be shaped by the world around it. That is the direction RGG Studio appears to be taking with Stranger Than Heaven, a project that immediately separates itself from the developer's previous work through its historical setting, ambitious timeline, and unusually personal approach to storytelling. Rather than focusing on a single...

PUBLISHED | O3.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | TUROK: ORIGINS | THE DINOSAUR HUNTER RETURNS

A dinosaur shooter name from another PC era is coming back, but not in the exact shape many older players may expect. Turok: Origins is not being presented as a simple return to the old first-person formula. Saber Interactive is bringing the series back as a third-person action shooter with solo play, online co-op and a stronger focus on team-based combat. That already makes it more interesting than a normal nostalgia revival, but also more risky. When a classic...

PUBLISHED | O1.O7.IIO26

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PREVIEW | THE RELIC: FIRST GUARDIAN | DARK FOLKLORE, HEAVY BLADES

Rain, ruined villages, heavy weapons, monsters with sad histories, and a hero who looks like he has walked too far into someone else’s nightmare. The Relic: First Guardian immediately has the kind of image that works for an action RPG. It does not look clean, heroic or bright. It looks wounded, as if the world was broken long before the player arrived and every road is only leading deeper into old damage. The atmosphere is not built around simple darkness, but...

PUBLISHED | 29.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | CLUTCH | OPEN-WORLD RACING ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA

A racing game set on the French Riviera already starts with a strong image. Sun, coastline, expensive roads, sharp corners, old money, illegal night races, polished machines and that strange line where professional motorsport and street culture can start looking too close to each other. It is the kind of location that can feel beautiful in daylight and completely different once the lights go down. That contrast gives Clutch a useful starting point before the first...

PUBLISHED | 26.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | FALSE ECHO | WAR IS IN THE WIRES AND LIES

A radio room buried under the Atlantic can be more frightening than a battlefield. No open sky, no clean information, no easy hero moment. Just paper, cables, signals, orders, pressure, and the quiet knowledge that every message you touch may change someone’s fate. False Echo understands that kind of tension. It does not look like a game built around speed or spectacle. It looks like a game built around procedure, suspicion and the slow damage of working...

PUBLISHED | 23.O6.IIO26

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PREVIEW | THE DEFIANT | WWII FPS MOVES TO A DIFFERENT FRONT

The Defiant immediately stands out because it does not begin from the usual World War II shooter memory. It is not another return to Normandy, another Western European campaign, or another familiar tour through the same battlefields that PC shooters have revisited for decades. Instead, Haotang Technology and 4Divinity are pointing the camera toward China’s War of Resistance against Japan, a setting that has been far less visible in mainstream...

PUBLISHED | 22.O6.IIO26

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