Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition launched on October 14. The remaster of one of the most beloved entries in the strategy series was supposed to give the 2011 original a second life. Instead,...

Historical strategy games are used to complaints about inaccuracies: wrong coat of arms, wrong dynasty, wrong border. But accusing a game of showing reality better than a modern atlas is a different level entirely. Especially...

Procedural generation loves throwing out surprises that no scriptwriter would come up with. Sometimes it's a rare anomaly or a lucky neighbor, and sometimes it's pure chaos, like a planet of savages with stone axes...

On January 3, 902, the Christian church split in Crusader Kings 3. The Roman Rite became Catholicism, while the Greek Rite turned into Orthodoxy, followed by the Byzantine Empire. The player, as Pope, took charge...

Some storylines fans don't forgive for decades, and The End Times from the Warhammer universe has long held a place of honor on that list. Games Workshop literally blew up its own world, the one...

Paradox Interactive has introduced a new rule for the Hearts of Iron 4 Discord server that bans members from using photos of real political and military figures born after January 1, 1800 as profile pictures....

Newcomers to long-running strategy games almost never stop to think that the title they're playing once looked completely different. With Paradox Interactive, that gap can be especially stark. Some of its games have expanded over...

In global World War Two strategy games, players have been leading the most notorious regimes of the 20th century to victory for years without much controversy. Real drama tends to erupt in the places you'd...

Creative Assembly released the Lords of the End Times expansion for the strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3. The expansion adds four new Legendary Lords and more than 50 new units and characters. Some fans...

Medieval dynasty simulators tend to produce stories no scriptwriter could dream up. There you are, counting taxes and planning a marriage alliance with a neighboring duchy, when the game casually informs you that your fifteen-year-old...

The random number generator in grand strategy games usually works quietly in the background, scattering stars and neighbors across the galaxy without any particular agenda. But sometimes it produces a layout that makes you wonder...

A medieval dynasty simulator promises full control over bloodlines, marriages, and succession. Until one day a player discovers that their grandson – and future heir – has already been betrothed to a widow old enough...

Grand strategy games promise epics – crusades, holy wars, standing against the Mongol horde sweeping in from the east. Then it turns out the biggest bloodbath of an entire campaign had nothing to do with...

Developers of grand strategy games love to insist that conquering the entire map in their titles is impossible – the mechanics won't allow it, the economy will collapse, control will tank. That claim usually holds...

Blizzard released Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom without any prior announcement, marking the first new campaign for Warcraft III: Reforged in 23 years. The launch happened right during the BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony, and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...