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Paris Games Week 2026: who is coming, what you can play, and the evening not to miss
22 to 25 October, fifteen years of the show, Game of Roles at the Dome de Paris, and 300 square metres for French studios.
Alexandrosse
10 min
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Features
Video game features: in-depth analysis, retrospectives and investigations on the gaming industry and its culture. When we dig deeper than the review.
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This week's deals: a Capcom sale closing tomorrow, and Warner clearing its catalogue at up to 95 per cent off
Six sales running, over 700 games, and only one that expires tomorrow morning. Our sort, with the prices worth taking and the ones that are not.
Alexandrosse
10 min
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288 games reviewed since January: we are handing you the keys to the ranking
Eight months, 288 reviews, an average of 7.03. Here is what that says, and voting is open in four categories including the hall of shame.
Alexandrosse
6 min
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Total War Warhammer 40000: everything we know, everything we speculate, and why we're trembling with anticipation
Total War leaves fantasy for the grimdark of the 41st Millennium. Factions, galactic campaign, ranged battles, release: the full rundown, splitting confirmed facts from speculation.
Alexandrosse
10 min
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Bugscraper and Bravest! send us back to a childhood we never lived, only watched on YouTube
Two retro games launch the same day. The catch: our 8-bit childhood, we didn't live it, we watched it on retro YouTube channels. What is borrowed nostalgia worth?
Alexandrosse
9 min
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Age of Empires 2 has a competitive scene in 2026. It's a miracle nobody really paid for.
A 1999 game, 40,000 active players, the same ten names at the top for ten years. How AoE2 resurrected a competitive scene that nobody was funding.
Alexandrosse
14 min
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Stellaris turns 10 and its anniversary gift is also an admission of guilt
Paradox integrates three major DLCs into the base game for Stellaris's 10th anniversary. It's generous. It's also, reading between the lines, an admission of guilt.
Alexandrosse
12 min
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ARC Raiders: it doesn't reinvent anything, it just finally gets things right
We've seen this kind of game fail before. Trailers full of promises, a strong concept, and a launch that collapses under the weight of its own ambitions. ARC Raiders works. Understanding why means understanding what the genre spent years learning.
Alexandrosse
10 min
Dossier
Black Flag Resync: the return of a ghost nobody wanted to let die
Black Flag is back. And behind the good news sits a question Ubisoft still hasn't answered: why has nobody taken the helm since 2013?
Alexandrosse
10 min