I’ve been wondering for years what a Paradox grand strategy game would look like if it was designed for regular…
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Cult classic Vampire: the Masquerade– Bloodlines is getting a sequel. The 2004 roleplaying game left a lasting…
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I really enjoyed grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV at release, but one thing that sucked was the way navies…
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Paradox’s Stellaris, a very big and very PC strategy game, is coming to PS4 and XB1. If this is a test for a console Crusader Kings II, then count me in.
Paradox’s Fredrik Wester is stepping down from his CEO role in a few weeks’ time, and to mark the occasion he’s been…
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Crusader Kings II, a sprawling PC game with around 17,534 buttons and menus, is coming to tabletops, and has been…
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Paradox, makers of epics like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis, have a new grand strategy game coming called Imp…
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Battletech is a really good tactics game that combines giant mechs with X-COM. I’ve spent many hours building…
Battletech’s giant robot brawls can last a long time before one side claims victory. The recently released tactics…
Battletech’s character creator isn’t really about how your character looks; it’s about who they are, where they’re…
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I love a good Cities: Skylines build, and this cinematic flythrough of a recreation of the Federal Territory of…
Looking back at one of the greatest PC strategy games of all time
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Last week, Paradox released two big expansions, both for games that I love, but I ended up playing neither. Instead,…
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Two of Paradox’s big grand strategy games, Stellaris and Europa Universalis IV, both got new expansions today. Stellaris attempts to cut down on the slog in Utopia, while EUIV focuses on China in Mandate of Heaven.
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Cities Skylines is an amazing city building game, but destroying them? That’s a SimCity thing. Or it was, until the…
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The Black Death, an outbreak of the bubonic plague which swept through Europe in the 14th century (killing anywhere…
Hearts of Iron IV is a very serious video game. Or, it was, until modders got their hands on it.
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You’ve probably won the Second World War in a video game before. Maybe as a commando, maybe as a pilot. But have you…
Stellaris is a space opera, played out in three acts.
