Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because ‘Starcraft sold 3 million copies in Korea’

Age of Empires 2 fans are no strangers to the game receiving new factions. The Definitive Edition’s curators, Forgotten Empires, have regularly updated the game with new playable civs for years. But it turns out the game’s history of adding unexpected dynasties stretches much farther back in time than 2017, at least according to one…

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Chaotic courier sim Deliver At All Costs will crash through your letterbox this May, and its latest trailer is even weirder than I expected

After more than four years of development, the slapstick driving sim Deliver At All Costs finally has a release date and will let you cause carnage in its ’50s-inspired world in just a couple of months. Developed by Studio Far Out Games, Deliver At All Costs casts players as Winston Green, a struggling courier desperate…

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Feature: “It’s A Perversion Of The Whole Thing” – Jeff Minter On Scam Games, Switch 2, And ‘I, Robot’

“There’s pride in it for me”. Jeff Minter is, perhaps quite rightly, referred to as a legend within the gaming industry. His career following the founding of Llamasoft in 1982 has spawned dozens of the most unique and recognisable titles in existence, including Tempest 4000, Akka Arrh, Polybius, Attack of the Mutant Camels, and Gridrunner….

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A bizarre mod that adds human poop to Skyrim led me on an enlightening journey into Viking sanitation: ‘Your world will certainly be more immersive, but it will also certainly smell worse’

I’ve played a few Skyrim mods that stank in my time, but none quite like this. Everyone Poops­—Mihail’s Shards of Immersion adds actual piles of excrement into Bethesda’s perennial fantasy RPG. “You can now find human feces near and inside some houses, forts and caves,” writes Mihail Mods, the creator of Everyone Poops, which according…

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