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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…

On Thursday, February 19, Roblox was sued by Los Angeles County for allegedly failing to guard the children that play it from predators. A press release from the county argues that “while Roblox markets itself as a safe digital space for creativity, it is in reality an unsafe online environment that has become a breeding…

New Blood has revealed that Ultrakill’s next major addition, Hell’s eighth layer of Fraud, will be added to the early access FPS next week. Fraud was initially set to release at the end of 2025, but suffered a minor last minute delay. We don’t know the exact day the update will drop, but New Blood…

I still regularly listen to Styx, so I would never criticise anyone’s musical taste, and thus I feel a certain kinship with People of Note protagonist Cadence. Her stab at pop stardom hinges on her combining different genres and breaking through to the cliquey denizens of her music-themed world—essentially fighting musical snobbery. People of Note’s…

Pepperidge Farm remembers: It usually takes about five years for everyone to decide an Obsidian Entertainment game was actually really good. In a pleasantly surprising turn of events, it seems to have only required exactly 12 months for Avowed, last year’s action-RPG spinoff to Pillars of Eternity, to get such a reappraisal. It’s still the…

Saints Row is dead. Long live Saints Row? No, it’s actually dead, at least according to the design director on the first game, Chris Stockman. As Eurogamer reported, Stockman said as much in a Discord for his new company, Bit Planet Games. A thread on X from user papaRPG popularized a screenshot of Stockman responding…

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

Even two years after release, Balatro is one of the biggest and best roguelikes going—there may be no one more keenly aware of that than developer LocalThunk, who’s managed to keep a low profile despite his game selling millions of copies and scoring crossover after crossover. In a recent anniversary blog post titled “Bad Grades,”…