2026

One of the biggest draws towards Helldivers 2 is the Galactic War—a high-concept metagame that sees the entire community taking objectives, defending planets, and securing story-relevant goals to shape the fate of the galaxy itself. Or at least, that’s the premise. Throughout the game’s lifespan, it’s been occasionally called into question. Take the Menkent Line,…

If you’ve just dropped into the hellish battlefield of Cyberstan in Helldivers 2, you’re likely already wondering how to kill a Vox Engine. These are the heaviest new Automaton enemy—a rolling arsenal of lasers, miniguns, and rocket barrages, and they’re seemingly very tanky, at least to conventional explosives, orbitals and airstrikes. Well, after getting far…

Mewgenics isn’t very forgiving on your troupe of cats. Some will be born with genetic mutations, others will get permanent injuries from in-fighting, and some will be lost in battle, and lots of it will be out of your control. However, one thing you can decide is your cats’ classes, which take the form of…

I like to think I’m a relatively smart person; I can often remember most of my ABCs and it only takes me around five seconds to add seven to something. But one thing will remain forever beyond me: mahjong, the Chinese tile-based game that I mostly know as ‘that one Yakuza minigame I simply don’t…

Deadlock has me in an iron grip at the moment, and I owe part of that to my prior experience with Dota 2—see, back when I was a lot less happy (these things might be correlated), I sunk about 2,500 hours into that MOBA hell dimension. I regret just about every single one, but they…