At 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 …
Count Vlad
Count Vlad
Count Vlad. Gamer since Commodore 64 era. Worked in gaming industry for nigh 20 years as a reviewer, editor and marketer. Lover of strategy and grand strategy games, military simulations, RPGs, extraction shooters. Renaissance gamer even. Science fiction writer by night.
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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 …
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News & Updates
Syberia Remastered: A Classic Adventure Reimagined for 2025
by Count Vladby Count VladMicroids has officially announced Syberia Remastered, a comprehensive modernization of the beloved 2002 point-and-click adventure game created by the late Benoît Sokal. Set for release in late 2025, this remaster aims to introduce a new …
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There is certain romanticism, if I may say so, about the Cold War era that keeps drawing in strategy game developers. The threat of a “Cold War going hot” spurred numerous books and movies, and …
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Sins of a Solar Empire 2 (SoSE 2) arrives as a long-awaited sequel to the groundbreaking 2008 original that successfully fused real-time strategy and 4X gaming genres. Developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock …