Trying to solve Cities: Skylines 2’s ‘Not Enough Customers’ issue? This icon pops up over commercial zones from time to time in your city, and it can be a little confusing—especially since it can coincide with a growing demand for more commercial zones. How can your city be demanding more commercial buildings if the existing…
In a legislative attempt to stave off the inevitable demise of humanity at the hands of roaming hunter-killer robots, US President Joe Biden has issued an executive order establishing a new set of standards that will guide the development of AI. The order includes requirements to “develop standards, tools, and tests to help ensure that…
Call of Duty’s insatiable hunger for SSD real estate continues. According to official system requirements released by Activision today, all installs of Modern Warfare 3 will first require that you have another program installed: Call of Duty HQ. If you’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2 or Warzone the last few months, you’re already using Call…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is coming on November 10, and Activision has now revealed the full PC system requirements as well as a rundown on PC-specific features and preloading info—because yes, in case there was any doubt, preloading will be available. November 10 is the full release date, but you can get into…
Even among Hideo Kojima’s most diehard fans (not to be confused with Die-Hardman), I think it’s a damn near universal opinion that Kojima made the wrong call when he replaced longtime voice actor David Hayter with Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid 5. It didn’t help that compared to Hayter’s gravelly-but-slightly-goofy performance, Sutherland seemed a…
Thanks to Steam, in just a few clicks I can buy heartrending Chinese RPGs, intense Japanese shmups that would otherwise only be sold at specialist doujin events, and even official English translations of spooky Korean-born horror games. It is glorious. Steam has been a wonderful one-stop-shop for PC games for a long time now, growing…
Destiny studio Bungie has reportedly laid off an unknown number of staff today, according to a Bloomberg report, which also says that The Final Shape expansion for Destiny 2 has been delayed. Reports of the layoffs first surfaced earlier today on social media, after multiple employees said that they had been let go. “I’ve been…
We said in our long-ago review of Dead Space 3 that it suffered from an “identity crisis.” Series star Isaac Clarke very suddenly went from being an engineer in a tight spot (and with a precarious grip on reality) in the first two games to a full-blown action hero in the third: “Isaac fights wave…
The Long and Whining Toad. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim’s got some not-so-wonderful thoughts about the residents of Mario’s latest 2D adventure… You don’t need me to tell you just how charming Super Mario Bros. Wonder…
Foxhole is a sandbox-style war MMO and, while it officially released last year, it’s been available in early access since 2017. Its schtick is one persistent and gigantic war game where thousands of players simultaneously battle for one of two factions, both seeking domination over a gigantic map, but with the twist that, as in…