Dawn of War from 2004 with DLSS 5 causes split among gamers over art style again
An RTX 5080 owner has spent the past few days running DLSS 5 through every old game they can find. The latest batch of screenshots came from the original Dawn of War, released 22 years...
A Stellaris player asked if it's normal to have only three wins in 400 hours – and found out that's actually a lot
In grand strategy games, the victory screen has become a rare artifact that plenty of players have never actually seen. It is a genre where hundreds of hours logged offer zero guarantee that anyone will...
Age of Empires 2 newcomer's idea to build gates around the town center was mocked
The idea looks simple enough. Surround the town center with four gates so no free tile remains underneath for enemy troops to stand on. The player who posted the concept in the Age of Empires...
Crusader Kings 3 player showed a screenshot of an epic battle after which only one warrior remained on the battlefield
Medieval strategy games have a habit of dressing up disasters as triumphs in their post-battle screens. The result flashes a proud "victory," but look closer at the numbers and you'll often find nothing left but...
A Crusader Kings 3 veteran finally finished a campaign for the first time in 2,000 hours – eight rulers with god‑like traits were enough to last 586 years
Paradox grand strategy games are built so the final date barely matters. Fans start a campaign with excitement, turn into a land-grabbing machine by the midpoint, then start a new save the moment an heir...
A Crusader Kings 3 fan's girlfriend found his old saves named "Kill the Pope" and "Before Incest" – and she had questions
A save folder is more honest than browser history. It doesn't know how to make excuses and has never heard the word "context," so the moment someone peeks at the file list, it turns out...
A Crusader Kings 3 player fell into despair after having six daughters in a row and asked the community for advice
Paradox strategy games like to pretend that everything comes down to calculation and patience, and then the random number generator shows up and burns fifty years of planning in a single child-birth screen. Sometimes it...
Space Marines in Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will monitor reputation and avoid accusations of heresy
Creative Assembly has revealed new details on how relationships within the Imperium will work in Total War: Warhammer 40,000. Space Marines will need to do more than fight xenos – they'll also have to stay...
Starks vs. Lannisters – First Impressions of RTS War for Westeros
Classic base-building real-time strategy games stopped being a mainstream genre a long time ago, so any new entry tends to grab attention. That's exactly the case with Game of Thrones: War for Westeros from PlaySide,...
Hearts of Iron 4 fan got so immersed in the strategy game that he started seeing Hungary in his cat after the First Vienna Award
Long strategy games do something strange to the brain: it stops seeing the world map as just a map. First you memorize the shapes of countries, then the resource provinces, and at some point your...
Crusader Kings 3 player created a copy of himself – but gamers were more impressed by the real photo of the chad author
Character creators exist for pretty much one reason – to let people make themselves a little better looking than they actually are. Higher cheekbones, a sharper jawline, none of the asymmetry only the bathroom mirror...
New trailer for Game of Thrones: War for Westeros reveals Arya Stark and The Mountain
PlaySide Studios released a hero reveal trailer for the PC strategy game Game of Thrones: War for Westeros, this time putting Arya Stark in the spotlight. The clip shows off the deadly assassin skills she...
Age of Empires 2 fan revives debate on building rotation and shows mirrored structures
A veteran Age of Empires 2 player going by CrazyYETEE posted a series of mockups showing what buildings would look like in the Definitive Edition remaster if mirrored horizontally. The idea boils down to letting...
Crusader Kings 3 fan spent a whole hour creating an exact copy of herself in the game, and she's already ready to seduce the Pope
Character creators have basically become the unofficial exam for any game with a portrait system: shape up some nameless barbarian and everything looks fine, but try to recreate your own face, and the whole thing...
Red Alert 2 fan created a 6-minute AI short film — even a former developer praised it
A six-minute AI short film that transplants the world of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 into reality dropped on August 20 and has already racked up around 13,000 views. The video comes from the...
Old age in Crusader Kings 3 has become too harsh after recent patches – just like in real life
Reaching old age in Crusader Kings 3 is a questionable pleasure. One moment your character is winning tournaments, weaving plots, and building an empire, and the next you open the character sheet and spot the...
Stellaris fans joke that the patch adding the ability to center the emblem on their empire's flag has finally made the strategy game playable
Sometimes real happiness for strategy fans doesn't come from a new ship class or an overhaul of an entire game system – it comes from finally being able to center an emblem on your empire...
New Total War: Warhammer 40,000 gameplay showcases an extended battle between Orks and the Imperium
IGN published an extensive gameplay video for Total War: Warhammer 40,000, currently in development by Creative Assembly. In the video, developers walk through a full battle between Orks and Astra Militarum forces, showing off several...
A Crusader Kings 3 player raised such a greedy character that a request to lend five coins could give him a heart attack
In Crusader Kings 3 you can die from poisoned wine, a dagger in the back, or a lost war, but sometimes the deadliest weapon turns out to be a request to borrow a couple of...
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS where you fight dinosaur hordes – demo out now on Steam
Chute Apps and publisher MicroProse Software are gearing up to launch Repterra – a real-time strategy game with survival and base-building elements set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. The story of Repterra drops players...
