https://guildgamer.com/ Guides, news and reviews for people who actually finish games. en https://guildgamer.com/news/from-software-next-project-teaser/ https://guildgamer.com/news/from-software-next-project-teaser/ A fourteen second clip, no logo, and a lot of people quietly deleting their predictions. News Tomas Willoughby Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/shadow-of-the-erdtree-two-years-on/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/shadow-of-the-erdtree-two-years-on/ The expansion nobody could finish has quietly become the one everybody recommends. We went back through it at level 150 to work out why. Review Priya Raghunathan Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/star-wars-zero-company-launch-metacritic-86/ https://guildgamer.com/news/star-wars-zero-company-launch-metacritic-86/ Bit Reactor's XCOM-style tactics game released August 27 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, and critics have called it a strong Game of the Year contender. News Amara Okonjo Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/elden-ring-bleed-build-2026/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/elden-ring-bleed-build-2026/ Occult Uchigatana, Seppuku, and a Blood Grease habit. The stat spread matters more than the weapon. Guide Noor Haddad Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/steam-deck-successor-confirmed/ https://guildgamer.com/news/steam-deck-successor-confirmed/ The interview says more about the display than the silicon, which is telling. News Amara Okonjo Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/baldurs-gate-3-honour-mode-solo/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/baldurs-gate-3-honour-mode-solo/ One build carries the whole run, and it is not the one everyone posts about. Review Tomas Willoughby Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/helldivers-2-crossplay-outage/ https://guildgamer.com/news/helldivers-2-crossplay-outage/ Arrowhead has acknowledged it. Until the patch lands, one setting restores matchmaking. News Dae-sung Park Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/bg3-act-three-order/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/bg3-act-three-order/ Six quests break each other if you take them in the obvious sequence. Here is the one that holds. Guide Iwona Brzezinska Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/setup/star-wars-zero-company-pc-requirements/ https://guildgamer.com/setup/star-wars-zero-company-pc-requirements/ EA publishes targets rather than vague tiers, which is unusually honest. It also asks for 32 GB of RAM at the recommended level for a turn-based tactics game, which deserves a look. Setup Noor Haddad Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:50:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/setup/budget-1440p-build-2026/ https://guildgamer.com/setup/budget-1440p-build-2026/ Every part chosen for the thing it actually does. No RGB tax, no motherboard you will never use half of. Setup Iwona Brzezinska Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/star-wars-zero-company-action-points-guide/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/star-wars-zero-company-action-points-guide/ The 3 action point limit only caps what you can hold, not what you can spend in a turn. Playing around that one line changes how every mission should be run. Guide Noor Haddad Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/star-wars-zero-company-review/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/star-wars-zero-company-review/ Bit Reactor built an XCOM-shaped tactics game around a Clone Wars story and, against the odds, made both halves of that sentence work. Review Dae-sung Park Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/helldivers-2-patch-balance/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/helldivers-2-patch-balance/ Three months of nerfs, then one change that fixed the loadout problem. Review Amara Okonjo Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/silksong-worth-the-wait/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/silksong-worth-the-wait/ Six years of jokes have obscured a genuinely different game. Review Dae-sung Park Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/setup/controller-drift-fix/ https://guildgamer.com/setup/controller-drift-fix/ Ninety percent of drift complaints clear up with one tool and ten minutes. Setup Callum Fairweather Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/helldivers-2-solo-helldive/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/helldivers-2-solo-helldive/ Stealth is not a playstyle here, it is a stratagem loadout. This is the one that works. Guide Callum Fairweather Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/dota-2-team-spirit-ti-2026-patch-7-41e/ https://guildgamer.com/news/dota-2-team-spirit-ti-2026-patch-7-41e/ Shanghai hosted the finals, Team Spirit beat Team Vision in a five-game grand final, and the patch that shaped the tournament touched 56 heroes. News Priya Raghunathan Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/setup/palworld-dedicated-server-setup/ https://guildgamer.com/setup/palworld-dedicated-server-setup/ Four-player co-op runs off a host machine. Thirty-two players needs a real server, one config file you must copy before editing, and more memory than the cheap host tiers admit. Setup Dae-sung Park Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:20:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/silksong-tools-priority/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/silksong-tools-priority/ Rosaries are tight for the first eight hours. Three purchases carry the whole early game. Guide Priya Raghunathan Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/cs2-august-2026-movement-exploit-fix/ https://guildgamer.com/news/cs2-august-2026-movement-exploit-fix/ Valve shipped three updates in August, and the last one fixed a speed calculation bug that let players move faster than intended by hugging walls in long corridors. News Tomas Willoughby Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/palworld-feybreak-expeditions-early-game/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/palworld-feybreak-expeditions-early-game/ The Feybreak update let you send Pals out on expeditions for passive loot instead of parking your whole roster on base chores. Most players still do not use it. Guide Priya Raghunathan Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/pubg-update-42-3-meta-rotation-rpd/ https://guildgamer.com/news/pubg-update-42-3-meta-rotation-rpd/ Krafton is rotating weapon classes into the spotlight roughly every four months, and light machine guns are up first with faster reloads and softer recoil. News Dae-sung Park Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/palworld-1-0-review/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/palworld-1-0-review/ The World Tree region and Sunreach island justify the wait out of early access, even if co-op stability still lags behind everything else Pocketpair fixed. Review Noor Haddad Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/news/palworld-update-1-0-3-jetragon-changes/ https://guildgamer.com/news/palworld-update-1-0-3-jetragon-changes/ Pocketpair lowered the level requirements for Jetragon tech and reworked several late-game systems, while console players got a fix for a parental-controls crash. News Noor Haddad Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/pubg-destructible-terrain-erangel-guide/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/pubg-destructible-terrain-erangel-guide/ Krafton expanded destructible terrain to Erangel and Ranked in 2026. Open fields are no longer automatically death traps, if you know how to make your own cover. Guide Dae-sung Park Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/setup/pubg-render-distance-and-audio-settings/ https://guildgamer.com/setup/pubg-render-distance-and-audio-settings/ Two settings decide most PUBG fights: how far the game bothers to draw, and whether your audio chain is fighting itself. Both are misunderstood, and one of them is costing people real money. Setup Amara Okonjo Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:05:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/dota-2-patch-7-41-facets-removed-adjust/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/dota-2-patch-7-41-facets-removed-adjust/ Valve deleted the facet pick phase entirely in patch 7.41. Every hero has one fixed kit again, and drafting just got simpler and shallower at the same time. Guide Amara Okonjo Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/setup/dota-2-hardware-what-to-buy/ https://guildgamer.com/setup/dota-2-hardware-what-to-buy/ A thirteen-year-old game with a minimum spec from another era, and people still buy a $700 graphics card for it. Here is where the frame rate really goes. Setup Tomas Willoughby Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:40:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/reviews/dota-2-still-asking-too-much-of-you/ https://guildgamer.com/reviews/dota-2-still-asking-too-much-of-you/ Patch 7.41e and a Team Spirit championship run prove the game is healthier than its reputation for hostility suggests. Review Priya Raghunathan Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://guildgamer.com/guides/cs2-grenade-lineups-2026/ https://guildgamer.com/guides/cs2-grenade-lineups-2026/ Valve quietly stopped letting grenades pass through level geometry. Every lineup you copied off YouTube two years ago needs a re-check. Guide Tomas Willoughby Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT