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Now's The Perfect Time To Grab Civilization 6 For Free While Civ 7 Is Still In Its Rebuilding Phase
17.7.2025
Months later, Civilization 7 still isn’t quite where it needs to be. It’s getting new updates all the time, but it’s still getting panned by fans for lacking features and feeling incomplete by the 4X strategy series’ standards. Fortunately, Civilization 6 is currently free to claim on Epic games...
Hogwarts Legacy, Civilization 7, And More Reveal $10 Switch 2 Upgrade Fees
13.5.2025
“Next-gen” upgrade fees are coming to Switch 2. Ahead of the console’s launch in June, more and more publishers are sharing new details about the Switch 2 versions of games that are already on Switch, and many will require a $10 fee in order to unlock them. But what exactly are you paying for?Read...
Don't Worry, Nintendo Says You Can Totally Use Switch 2 Mouse Controls On Your Pants
3.4.2025
Mouse controls are one of the Switch 2's big new features. Optical sensors allow the upgraded Joy-Con controllers to aim and navigate on the console as if you were playing on a PC. But the Switch 2 is also a portable console. Mostly people aren’t playing it at a desk. Don’t worry, Nintendo says...
How To Improve Your Ground Combat Game In Civilization VII
17.3.2025
Like its predecessors, Civilization VII features numerous win conditions ranging from a cultural victory to a military victory. You could play nice with the other leaders, build alliances, share technology, and aim for the stars, as it were. Or, you could annihilate your neighbors with tanks...
How To Stop The Plague In Civilization 7
13.3.2025
Civilization VII features a variety of crises throughout each age, including a full-on invasion, a war of religion, and the ultimate crisis that will test all empire builders: the plague. It spreads rapidly, moving from town to city with ease, wiping out entire populations. If you don’t turn...
Civilization 7's Big Question: Towns Or Cities?
13.3.2025
As you begin to step beyond your boundaries and expand your empire in Civilization VII, you’ll note that investing in a Settler and sending them off on a mission to settle new land doesn’t culminate in a city like previous entries. You begin with a township. A town is a small settlement, held back...
How To Choose Your Perfect Leader In Civilization 7
28.2.2025
In a game like Civilization VII, the leader you choose makes as much of a difference as how you play and the type of win condition you seek. If you want to rule the world, a military leader will provide the manpower and firepower. But an economic-focused leader makes the most sense if you’d rather...
Answering All Your Avowed Questions And More Of The Week's Top Tips
23.2.2025
This week, we’ll kick things off by answering the questions you may have about Obsidian’s new first-person role-playing game Avowed (and if you want more tips to help you get started strong, look no further than this spoiler-free collection of things to know before you start playing). We’ll also...
How To Get Rich Quick In Civilization 7
20.2.2025
As in life, money makes most aspects of Civilization VII more manageable. Sure, you could wait a few turns for a building to finish construction or for a unit to enter the fray, but you could toss some gold at the problem. However, acquiring gold in Civilization VII poses unique challenges, and...
Civilization 7 Gets Launch Day Update To Address Sea Of Early Complaints
11.2.2025
It’s been a rocky launch for Civilization 7 so far. The long-anticipated latest entry in the strategy series went live for Deluxe Edition owners last week and complaints about the game feeling “unfinished” immediately started pouring in. A new patch, no doubt the first of many, aims to address some...
Fans Who Paid $100 To Play Civilization 7 Early Call It 'Unfinished'
7.2.2025
The launch of a new Civ game is always messy. Long-time fans grapple with new changes to a beloved and complex strategy series, alongside the usual flood of initial complaints that greet any big new PC release, from performance problems to usability issues. And then a few months (or years) later...
Nintendo Patent Confirms Switch 2 Joy-Con's Most Innovative Feature
6.2.2025
Fans have been speculating about PC gaming mouse-like functionality for the Switch 2 ever since optical sensors appeared in leaks last month. Nintendo then teased the feature in the new Switch’s reveal trailer shortly after. Now the potential game-changer has been all but officially announced...
Help, February 2025 Is Packed With Way Too Many Massive Games
25.9.2024
We still have over three months left in 2024, but looking ahead to next year has me a little nervous. The early months of 2025 are already filling up with a ton of big RPGs and long-ass games that will be hard to keep up on. And Ubisoft’s recent delay of the next Assassin’s Creed has only made...