Game Guides & Stories

Yes, you can play Heroes of Might and Magic II on an Android phone, and you can actually set the whole thing up without touching a PC. You don’t need…

Riot Games launched League of Legends Classic on 29 July 2026. It is a classic mode rebuild that runs inside the existing client and competes for the same players as…

When Knights of Honor shipped in September 2004, created by the newly minted Black Sea Studios, reviewers spent much of their coverage endlessly weighing it against Total War. Nineteen years…

I couldn’t tell you my own Wi-Fi password without looking at the bottom of the router, but I can recite IDDQD, SHOW ME THE MONEY, and ROSEBUD without missing a…

Most games from the late 1990s and early 2000s are frozen in time. They are playable only through emulation, or sometimes not at all. But a handful of titles never…

Back in the day, nobody really thought about futureproofing and preserving their game collection. It simply wasn’t as important as it is now. So, I did not set out to…

I’m a classic games fan. I treat my games the same way I treat my books: take one off the shelf, open it, start reading. Take a disc off the…

The PS5 gets marketed as the ultimate blockbuster machine. It is all about hyper-realism and controllers that vibrate when it rains. But if you actually dig into the PS Store,…

I’ve been playing PC games for the best part of thirty years, and I genuinely thought I knew them inside out. Then I started digging, and I kept running into…

Somewhere in your place there is a spindle of jewel cases. Maybe a shoebox. Mine lived in a drawer under the router for years, a stack of classic Blizzard games…

The Steam Deck gets plenty of love as an indie machine. Fair enough. It runs Hades beautifully, turns Balatro into a dangerous bedtime mistake, and handles a ridiculous amount of…

I still remember the first time the original Gothic killed me. I’d been playing maybe two minutes. No tutorial, no quest marker, no little voice telling me where to go.…

Right around twenty years ago, PC gaming was in a very weird place. We were getting incredible native PC titles. At the same time a wave of console-first publishers finally…

Buying a classic PC game should be simple. You search for the game, see it on Steam, see it on GOG, compare the price, and pick one. But with older…

Reading Jason Schreier’s Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment feels less like examining corporate history and more like walking through a forensic sweep. You can see…

There was a time when a single browser tab could feel like an entire world. No gaming PC required. No massive download. No dedicated hour carved out of your evening.…

Real time strategy games no longer sit at the center of PC gaming in the way they once did. The genre still matters, and it still produces excellent games, but…

Some series never really leave PC gaming. Heroes of Might and Magic is one of them. Players still talk about Heroes II and Heroes III because those games got the…

There was a time when a Disney game could sell itself in seconds. When you saw the box, you recognised the film immediately, and that was enough to make you…

Old PC games do not usually stop working because they are “too old” in some vague sense. They break because they were built for operating systems, graphics APIs, installers, drivers,…