SimCity 4 modders are cracking its deepest recesses in ever greater numbers, enabling extensive new changes

SimCity 4 modders are making previously-unheard-of DLL plugins and mods due to recent advances, enabling changes of tweaks to how it runs that prior modders would have considered impossible. Over the past few months these types of deep, game-altering mods, previously restricted to just a couple famous examples, have proliferated into dozens of tweaks to…

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Helldivers 2 studio continues to wrangle its servers like a bucking bronco, capping player count at 450K to avoid instability

As noted by Wario64 on Twitter, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has stated on its official Discord that it is capping the game’s concurrent players at 450,000 while it resolves issues related to mission payouts and dropped connections. We reported yesterday that Helldivers 2 more than doubled its peak player count from its first weekend online,…

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You are What you Play – By Howard Scott Warshaw

That’s the first law of Hollywood. The video game industry always wanted to be like Hollywood. Who would know this better than me, the man who did the most notorious movie conversion of them all? But then again, nobody knows anything. If anybody knew anything then why would major Hollywood studios reject the original Star…

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