Starfield is not done yet, and at this point that statement cuts both ways. I have been following the game closely since its divisive 2023 launch, watching Bethesda work through what has been an attempt …
Count Vlad
Count Vlad
Count Vlad. Gaming since the Commodore 64 era, working in the games industry for over 20 years as a reviewer, editor, and marketer. A Renaissance gamer with interests in strategy and grand strategy, military sims, RPGs, and extraction shooters. Still a gamer at heart; that part has not changed since I was a kid. Science fiction writer by night.
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News & Updates
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope Expansion Is Coming Summer 2026
by Count Vladby Count VladGSC Game World has announced S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope, the first major story expansion for Heart of Chornobyl, arriving Summer 2026 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. No precise date yet, but given …
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Game Reviews
Early Impressions: Vanguard Galaxy – The Game That Plays Itself
by Count Vladby Count VladVanguard Galaxy | Developer & Publisher: Bat Roost Games | Early Access since October 30, 2025 | $8.99 on Steam I started playing EVE Online around 2005. If you know EVE, you know it’s not …
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News & Updates
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 Announced with Cinematic Trailer at The Game Awards
by Count Vladby Count VladAt The Game Awards 2025, Sega and Creative Assembly officially unveiled Total War: Warhammer 40,000, marking the Total War franchise’s first foray into Games Workshop’s sci-fi Warhammer 40K setting. The reveal came with a dramatic …
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When Tim Cain, creator and lead programmer of the original Fallout, explores the topic of canon, he does so from a rare vantage point of a veteran developer who shaped one of gaming’s most iconic …
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News & Updates
Post-apocalyptic MMO shooter PIONER to be launched on December 16, 2025
by Count Vladby Count VladThe highly anticipated post-apocalyptic MMO shooter, PIONER, will debut on will debut via Steam Early Access on December 16, 2025. PIONER is a post-apocalyptic MMO shooter set on the mysterious Soviet-era island of Tartarus, offering a …
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Forgive me for being blunt, but there is hardly a developer/publisher that can both enthrall their audience and shit the proverbial bed – sometimes nigh simultaneously – like Paradox Interactive. The story of Surviving Mars …
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Arc Raiders, a bold fusion of third-person shooting, PvPvE tension, and scavenger-driven survival, is launching on 30th October 2025. The game’s world is a haunting vision of mechanical domination and human defiance, and beneath its …
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Today brings news few of us wanted: Gentlymad Studios, the Wiesbaden-based team behind Endzone, Pizza Connection 3, In Between and more, is shutting its doors at the end of September 2025. Stefan Marcinek, CEO & …
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Seven years. That’s how long it took for SCUM to graduate from Steam Early Access (launched in 2018) to its 1.0 “full release” in June 2025. As a long-time prisoner on SCUM’s island (over 3000 …