February 2026

If you’re looking for a management sim that’s a bit on the lighter side, you could certainly do worse than Megaquarium. Twice Circled’s aquarium construction sim is all about building oceanic attractions and filling them with weird and wonderful sea life. The base game released eight years ago, but Twice Circled has updated it consistently…

Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Taking to Discord to sell my favourite weirdoes on my current cozy games of choice: Starsand Island, Potionomics, and Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale. Currently, I can’t check my Bluesky direct messages until I’ve allowed the Epic Games-owned KWS to look at either my…

Cities: Skylines 2 just received its first update from new developer Iceflake Studios, which replaced Colossal Order at the end of 2025. You might think this would be a prime opportunity to breathe new life into the struggling city-builder. To come out swinging with some big new features. To make the flowers bloom, the birds…

When I played Total Chaos at the end of the last year, my main takeaway was, ‘This is scary, but could be scarier’. There are some fear inducing moments in Trigger Happy Interactive’s remake of the Doom total conversion of the same name—particularly a bowel-quaking mid-game section involving a library. But compared to the dynamic…

First, the Baldur’s Gate 3 modding community gave Elminster Big Naturals, and then everyone’s favorite dignified corpse Withers too. The Skyrim modding community, not one to be left behind, has finally followed suit. It began with a request to give Ulfric Stormcloak “Big Naturals” on r/skyrimmods. “Does current technology allow this?” someone innocently asked, while…