Summary Starting a new city with a blank map can be a daunting task but understanding a few key mechanics can set you up for the road ahead.Setting up the structure of your city will give you a great jumping off point for expansion.Cities: Skylines II is now available to play on Windows and with…
On October 28, 2023, the Call of Duty series will be 20 years old. While it’s now one of the most impressive and well-resourced development projects on the planet, with three core studios (as well as support studios) dedicated to keeping its annual release cycle spinning, the foundations for its success were laid by Infinity…
And it’s out this week on Switch. Composer World is a music writing game which is the spiritual successor to Mario Paint Composer for PC and Mac, and it’s out on Switch tomorrow, 25th October 2023 for $19.99 / £16.99. Not only is it the spiritual successor to Mario Paint Composer — an unofficial freeware…
With just a touch of bravado, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (or Europol) has announced “a major blow” to the Ragnar Locker ransomware group. To you and me, that name is mostly familiar because of the organisation’s 2020 attack on Capcom, which saw it demand $11 million and affect around 400,000 people’s…
Rocksmith 2014 has rocked out for the last time: Almost 10 years to the day after the acclaimed learn-to-play-guitar game debuted, Ubisoft has removed it from sale on all digital storefronts. “Nearly 10 years ago we launched Rocksmith 2014 and set out on a journey of learning and playing guitar together, practicing old favorites, and…
The best emulators for Sony’s 32-bit wonder. Sony’s 32-bit PlayStation is the console that began decades of dominance in the world of games for the Japanese tech giant and is home to some of the most famous franchises in interactive entertainment. Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer, Tomb Raider, WipEout, Final Fantasy, FIFA, Tekken and many more…
I am a fickle mayor, it turns out. My first Cities: Skylines 2 town ended up in the bin after only a couple of hours—but I think for completely understandable reasons. It looked lumpier than my middle-aged arse. The way Colossal Order’s city-building sequel deals with terrain, and the way buildings interact with it, is…
The Black Diamond is one of the first rare materials you’ll encounter in Return to Moria, needing it as you do to repair the Mapstone in the first camp in order to unlock fast travel. While you can randomly get this material by fighting Orcs and Goblins during horde events—the first of which occurs when…
Whether it is because we work from home or spend long hours in intense gaming sessions (or a little of both) we can spend a lot of time sitting at desks. It’s only natural then to want your desk set up to be attractive and inviting without sacrificing form and function. We put so much…
In a recent Reddit AMA, the team behind Cities: Skylines 2, fielded a host of questions from the gaming community. Amongst all of its responses was a comment by Colossal Order’s Chief Technical Officer, saying that the game was made with a performance target of 30 fps. Why? Because the developers don’t believe there would…