The city management genre has long been a favorite of mine – able to consume a vast number of hours with ease. I’m no stranger to Paradox Interactive’s Cities: Skylines series either – having reviewed the base game back in 2015 when it debuted on PC. Needless to say, I’ve spent a lot of time planning new residential zones, placing down roads and dealing with the odd unexpected pandemic or two. Now with the game coming to...
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Cities: Skylines Now Available On Nintendo Switch
Paradox Interactive’s critically acclaimed city building game Cities: Skylines might be available on almost every platform (PS4, Xbox One, PC) but Nintendo’s console/portable hybrid has been devoid of the city building/management genre for the past year and a half. All of that has changed with the unexpected release of Cities: Skylines on the Switch. Skylines is pretty much a spiritual successor to EA abandoned Sim City franchise (and no the waiting clock that is Sim City:...
Continue reading...Mod Support Available In Xbox Box One Version of Cities Skylines
City simulator Cities Skylines has received at least one major free patch full of features with the release of every expansion. For owners of the Xbox One version of Paradox Interactive’s municipal management game today’s patch could be one of the best yet – adding something that only PC players have enjoyed up until this point, mod support. Brand new buildings and in-game items will be added for free through the addition of mods. Both Paradox Interactive...
Continue reading...Surviving Mars Pre-Order Trailer Takes A Look At Life On Mars
Earlier this month, we brought you a preview of the gameplay for the upcoming simulation management game Surviving Mars. Today, Haemimont Games and Paradox Entertainment have released a new trailer in the form of a news broadcast. Looks like life on Mars isn’t going to be all red and sunshine all the time! Surviving Mars will release on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC March 15th, 2018. It will support 4K as well. You can find pre-order...
Continue reading...Test Your City Building Skills Surviving Mars This March
Developer Haemimont Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have teamed up to send us all to Mars. The goal is to survive, build, and thrive on the fourth planet from the Sun. There will be various challenges that you must overcome while you expand your Martian empire through collecting resources. Here’s a new video for you to check out what Surviving Mars is all about: As well as an older video showing off some gameplay: Are you...
Continue reading...World of Darkness Returns With a Pair of Interactive Novels
World of Darkness creators White Wolf have returned to the realm of video games with a pair of interactive stories available on Steam, iOS and Android devices. Modeled after the old “choose your own adventure” stories from the 80s & 90s either Vampire The Masquerade: We Eat Blood and Mage The Awakening: Refuge provide players with a certain degree of autonomy with regards to how each tale unfolds. White Wolf CEO Tobias Sjogren had this to say...
Continue reading...Cities Skylines: Natural Disasters Expansion Gets New Screenshots
Paradox interactive has released eight new screenshots for the upcoming Cities Skylines: Natural Disasters expansion that was originally announced a few months back. These new screenshots show us the devastation of a comet impact, an fireball from the distance, close-ups of several cities on fire and other catastrophic events. Are you looking forward to this expansion? Cities: Skylines has seen two other expansions ‘After Dark’ and ‘Snowfall’, outside of brief “2017” release date details about Cities Skylines: Natural Disasters is pretty scant. Here...
Continue reading...Cities Skylines Gets Destroyed In New Natural Disasters Expansion
Paradox Interactive announced the first expansion for Cities Skylines in almost an entire year – Cities Skylines: Natural Disasters – which will bring an often requested feature, the ability to destroy your metropolis with a variety of devastating events. It’s not just fire reigning from the skies that Natural Disasters adds to the game but also an Early Warning System,Q emergency routes for civilians and response vehicles and so much more., Alongside the new in-game events Paradox will also be...
Continue reading...Cities Skylines ‘Urban Planning’ Documentary To Screen At SXSW
Paradox Interactive has partnered with film production company Luckyday to bring fans a documentary focused on their city simulation title Citites: Skylines and the intersection between gameplay and urban planning. Titled My Urban Playground the feature length documentary will make its debut during The Sweedish Affiar program block at South by Southwest. If you’re going to be there it will be screened Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. Central Time at the Waller Creek boat house,...
Continue reading...Cities: Skylines | Review
The city building / management genre has always held a special place in my heart since I played Sim City 2000 back on the Super NES back in the early 90s. After the Sim City disaster a few years ago the genre has certainly seen better days. Can Paradox Interactive revitalize this troubled genre with this latest release? If planning out residential zones, parks and city services sound entertaining to you make sure to keep reading.
Continue reading...Great Holiday Giveaway Day 4: Crusader Kings 2
Our Great Holiday Giveaway continues with your chance to win one of three copies of Crusader Kings 2, courtesy of Paradox Interactive, the game’s publisher! This game features a storyline spanning over 400 years of medieval European history! In order to secure the future of your dynasty you must not online recruit forces but also protect religious interests as well. You’ll have to not only deal with political intrigue but also the military might of other empires....
Continue reading...Holiday Giveaway Day 3: Naval War Arctic Circle
Yesterday was a well deserved day of rest for our staff but we are ready to hit the high seas with a brand new giveaway. Today we are giving away 3 copies of Naval War Arctic Circle for Windows PC. Get ready to watch the waves pass you by, as you attempt to dodge an oncoming missile. In Naval War Arctic Circle where players control both Naval and Air forces in one of two campaigns – either...
Continue reading...Great Holiday Giveaway Day 2: Hearts of Iron III
Today’s Great Holiday Giveaway is a pretty sweet deal, up for grabs is not only three steam codes for the Hearts of Iron III Collection but also codes for the Their Finest Hour DLC expansion. We’re giving away 3 sets of codes for both the collection and Their Finest Hour to three lucky users who contact us in any of the methods listed below. Hearts of Iron III was released by Paradox Interactive released in 2009, this...
Continue reading...INDIEGALA 10 Begins
The tenth IndieGala has started. As with previous iterations, you’ll get to pay what you want. Furthermore, you may choose how to divvy up your donation between the developers, Indie Gala, or Charities. This time the Charities are the Able Gamers foundation and the Italian Red Cross which is raising funds to help Emilia Romagna, a region of Italy that was recently hit by an Earthquake. You may watch the trailer and read about the games after...
Continue reading...Hearts of Iron 3: Their Finest Hour Contest
Monty, Broken Joysticks’ official wargaming bulldog, has just secured some copies of the latest HOI 3 expansion, Their Finest Hour, to giveaway to our readers. I understand that his meticulous planning allowed him to succeed in an amphibious landing near Stockholm where, after a visit to the Vasa, he liberated some Steam codes from Paradox Interactive. We have 7 steam codes for Their Finest Hour and 5 steam codes for The Hearts of Iron 3 Collection (which...
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