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Life by You Given Early Access Release Date

Like everyone born before the turn of the century, I spent a good portion of my time hammering “MOTHERLOAD” into console commands, designing lavish houses, and then drowning people by taking away the ladders to their pools. Depending on what you are…

Cities Skylines II gets Modding and Beach Assets in new Update

There’s nothing like a good day at the beach. There’s also nothing like modding your favorite game and making it serve your needs. Now, it seems that Cities: Skylines II’s latest update is bringing both of those things to your PC. Cities:…

Prison Architect 2 Announced, Coming This Year

Released into Early Access in 2012, Introversion Software’s Prison Architect became a major success story for the realm of Early Access on Steam and crowdfunding. The private prison builder/management sim is one of my favorites of the 2010s, a perfect recapturing of…

Stop Talking Down To Players: Cities II

“The performance target is to run at a steady 30 FPS minimum. There is no real benefit in a city builder to aim for higher FPS[,] as a growing city will inevitably become CPU-bound. […] We just don’t believe there would be a long-term benefit…

Cities: Skylines II (PC) Review

I think it is really difficult to talk about Cities: Skylines II without acknowledging the obvious statement: “I already have the first game, why should I pick up this sequel?” It is a difficult question in itself to answer because of the modding…

Orwell and Europa IV Is Free On Epic

Monday, the Poké-mans announced a show on the 8th. Tuesday, Red Dead Redemption is coming to the Switch and PS4, and Mortal Kombat 1 is still adding characters three decades later. Yes, I’ll keep up with this joke, it is a stupid name. Wednesday, Edward had a recap of…

Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack Revealed

Paradox Entertainment has found another way to increase the size of the expansive strategy game, Stellaris, by adding another story pack. This time they are doing a story pack that focuses on first contact with other space-faring civilizations. While the scope of…

Prison Architect Devs Announce New Gangs Expansion

I’ve never gotten around to playing Prison Architect myself. However, I know a variety of people who have played it and enjoyed it since it was released. There have been a variety of add-ons and expansions since launch, but Paradox Interactive has…

Cities: Skylines (PC) – Review

A little over two and half years ago, Dari gave their impressions on this 2015 piece of city-building majesty. I think it is phrases like that which give away the game a little, if my two or three times talking about Cities: Skylines prior…

Cities: Skylines Free On Epic

Monday, House of the Dead returned with a new trailer for the remake, and Activision-Blizzard was caught up in their own wrongful house of dead. Tuesday, Frontier made me very happy, and the new season of Halo came in like another stale fart. Wednesday, Blizzard unveiled they will…