Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle’s The Sid Meier Collection

It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo…

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Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle’s The Sid Meier Collection

It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo…

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Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free

Alongside first-person shooters and real-time strategy games, the ’90s was also the golden era of space combat simulators. From Star Wars: X-Wing to Freespace 2, whipping out your joystick to blow up spaceships in nausea-inducing 3D spaceflight was a formative experience for every first-generation PC gamer. Among those space sims jostling for supremacy was Star…

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Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more

It shows just how vast PC gaming has become that I had not heard of Barony until now, despite it being over a decade old and attracting thousands of players every day. After a wobbly start in 2015, the cooperative dungeon crawler has grown steadily in popularity over its lifespan, and in the last 12…

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Cities: Skylines 2’s new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel’s future, revealing a patch that will include changes players ‘have been requesting for a long time’

A decade after it famously beat SimCity at its own game, Finnish developer Colossal Order waved goodbye to the Cities: Skylines series last year. In Colossal Order’s place, stewardship of Cities: Skylines 2 was taken over by Surviving the Aftermath developer Iceflake Studios. Now at the helm, Iceflake has unveiled the first part of its…

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Another Zelda Podcast S7 E10 – “Favorite Rito”

Mallory swings through Chicago to share some of her favorite music from Wind Waker with David. DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY DAVID GEISLER | WRITTEN BY DAVID GEISLER AND ANDY BARNEY | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: DAVID GEISLER | EDITOR: DAVID GEISLER | SOUND DESIGNER: DAVID GEISLER THE TEAM  https://www.anotherzeldapodcast.com/ Join our Patreon patreon.com/anotherzeldapodcast Follow us on Twitter…

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