Sword, bow, or lance? Here are the best character builds in Bannerlord, how attributes, skills, and focus points actually work, and how to make your hero a one person army.

The Show 26 is not on PC and Pro Spirit 2026 is, which settles it for a lot of people before the first pitch. But if you can play either, the choice is more interesting than it looks. A fair, honest head to head on rosters, gameplay, modes, price, and who each game is really for.

Fantasy Online 2 is a gorgeous 2D pixel MMORPG, rebuilt by the creator of a game the internet lost in 2014. The zones and music are lovely and the questing respects your time, but the combat has no impact and nothing in the world will ever try to kill you.

Hakkyu no Kiseki is the high school dynasty mode hiding in Pro Spirit 2026, and it might be the best thing in the game. Here is how the three year player cycle, weekly practice, and single elimination tournaments work, plus how to survive the roster gap that wrecks most first runs.

NBA 2K27 crashing at launch, stuttering, or running at low FPS on PC? Here are the fixes that actually work, in order, plus the one 60 FPS quirk in online modes that is not a bug.

NBA 2K27 launched as a DLSS 5 showcase. Here is what every DLSS option does, how to enable it, and the best settings for sharp visuals and smooth FPS, including why Neural Rendering can tank your frame rate.

NBA 2K27 plays great basketball right out of the box. This is the review for people who just want to hoop, single player, on the court, no MyTEAM grind. Gorgeous on a high end GPU and the best playing 2K in years.

Moleculox is a free browser puzzler where you slide atoms together to build molecules, and it plays like Connect 4 with a periodic table. It is clever, generous, and it got me.

The first big decision in Bannerlord is your culture. Here is what all six offer, from Vlandia's knights to Khuzait horse archers, and which one to pick as a new player.

The sim giant made an arcade racer, and it is charming. iRacing Arcade is a relaxing, all ages racer that starts slow but opens up once the speed picks up. Our review, and why it lands at 3.5 out of 5.

Everyone knows Sonic 2 and Sonic Mania. But for Sonic's 35th birthday, here are the overlooked greats hiding on the Sega CD, the Neo Geo Pocket, and a couple of consoles you forgot Sonic was even on.

The Terror Mask, a haunted mansion, and buckets of blood. A look back at Splatterhouse, Namco's horror beat em up, from the 1988 arcade original to the Genesis sequels I still keep on my shelf.

SNK's tense, high damage sword fighting classic. Here is how to play it on PC in 2026, the gorgeous 2019 reboot and the Neo Geo classics.

You do not need sketchy ROM sites. Here are the best legal ways to play arcade classics on PC in 2026, from Arcade Archives to Antstream, with save states and online play.

The 3DO was Time's 1993 Product of the Year and a $699 disaster within three years. With the Neo Geo AES+ proving classic consoles can come back, could the 3DO? First, why it died, and then whether a reboot could ever work.

The Neo Geo cost more than a used car in 1990. In 2026, SNK is bringing it back with the AES+, and there are more ways to play than ever. So is a Neo Geo finally worth it? Here is every option, priced.

One man beat the God of Fighting in Tekken 3, walked away certain he had won the whole tournament, and got zero credit for it. This is the story of Paul Phoenix, and it is the funniest tragedy in fighting games.

There is a specific joy in walking out of a gaming convention with something you did not plan to buy. Here are four of my favorite standees, Mega Man, Link, Sackboy, and Jin, and the stories behind each.

Owning the Neo Geo AES meant grinding eight months for a $650 machine, owning just two games, and eventually selling it for a car. This is the luxury console that set me up for the 3DO, and the one I still regret letting go.

The Panasonic 3DO was expensive, flashy, and a little absurd, which is exactly why it became the catalyst for one unforgettable year as a console player.

Everyone asks who can beat Galactus. The answer is stranger than a power ranking. From the Ultimate Nullifier to the beings above him, here is every real way to stop the World Devourer, and why doing it unleashes something worse.

Meet the One Below All, the dark half of Marvel's supreme creator and the real reason the Hulk cannot die. Its origin, the Green Door, and why God has a Hulk, explained.

The Warhammer 40,000 galaxy is controlled by no single empire. Here is how every major faction fits into the setting, from the Emperor and the Imperium to the Chaos Gods.

Above Galactus, above Eternity, above even the Living Tribunal sits one being who created everything. Meet The One Above All, the closest thing Marvel has to an actual god, and why it looks like Jack Kirby.

Missing time, Grey aliens, and memories dragged out under hypnosis. We revisit the most famous UFO abduction cases and the science that tries to explain them.

With Milly Alcock now flying in the new Supergirl movie, here is who Kara Zor-El really is: her Krypton origins, her powers, her ties to Superman, and why she sticks.

Marvel's Living Tribunal is the multiverse's judge, jury, and executioner. So what happens when you drop him into an MMO as the ultimate raid boss? We design the encounter and would take to take him down.

A zombie shambles into your imaging suite. You order films. What comes back is a horror show of demineralized bone, gas pockets, and a body that medically should not be able to move at all.

Marvel's Living Tribunal answers only to the creator of everything. DC has its own cosmic judges and gods. So who is the real match, and who would actually win?

The Hulk is not one monster, he is a whole roster of them. Here is every major Hulk form, explained and ranked by power, from the weakest gray original to a cosmic god who ends universes.