It’s hard to believe, but the premiere metropolis maker this side of SimCity 4 has just hit a 10-year milestone—and in classic city builder fashion, Cities: Skylines 2 is honoring the occasion with traffic bug fixes, new buildings and radio stations, and major changes to homelessness. Notably, citizens will no longer become adults and then…
I regard GTA Online the same way I regard the Seven Years’ War: I only know it at a distance, it sounds like a living nightmare, and whenever I learn something new about it I’m sure glad I’m not there. Maybe I’m not the only one, because Rockstar is giving away $3,000,000 to any lapsed…
Amazon’s upcoming God of War series is still in the pipeline after everyone previously making it quit last year—which, if you’ve been big into the weirdly decent era of prestige TV and animation coming out of videogames recently, should come as a relief. Kratos’ grim mien is still coming to the silver screen. The series,…
Whether or not, you’ll be able to run it is a different matter entirely. After years of development, the folks at Orbifold Studios have just dropped the first demo for Half-Life 2 RTX — a remake of Valve’s critically acclaimed 2004 first-person shooter. Half-Life 2 RTX was first announced by Nvidia at Gamescom 2023 as…
Category: ID@Xbox March 18, 2025 ID@Xbox: Developers of All Sizes Are Finding More Success With Xbox – $5 Billion Paid Out to Date Guy Richards, Director, ID@Xbox With GDC kicking off, our team is in San Francisco to celebrate with independent developers who continue to inspire us every day with their ambition, creativity, and passion….
The ESRB—Entertainment Software Rating Board—is, notionally, there to stick age ratings on games that make sure little Timmy and Sally aren’t scarred for life by the torture scene in GTA 5. In reality, I’m beginning to suspect the whole thing is a gigantic operation made to scupper games industry PRs’ carefully laid marketing plans. Like…
Whether you’re just getting into game design or honing existing skills, the perfect game design program for you is out there. Read up on the 50 best undergraduate and 25 best graduate programs in the country and beyond. Charting a path for your education isn’t as easy as videogames make it out to be. As…
Alright, pardner, it’s time to hike up your cowboy boots and put on your best duster—because Helldivers 2 has just announced a new warbond, and reports say it’s both rootin’, tootin’, and potentially shootin’. As per the video above, the Borderline Justice warbond is the next in the line of Arrowhead’s goodie bags, and it’s…
A demo is expected soon. The Polish developer SPINA Studio has announced its debut game, and it could easily be mistaken for a lost PlayStation classic — judging by the trailer and some of the screenshots that have been shared from it so far. Similar to Tainted Pact’s Flesh Made Fear, which we covered last…