You’re pretty damned excited about Paradox’s upcoming grand strategy 4X, Stellaris. This I know because 1) it’s damned exciting, 2) you clicked on this link, and 3) because you’re only human. You can’t play Stellaris before May 9, but you can watch other people play it, and absorb that strategy goodness via osmosis. Paradox has been streaming...
In some ways, Obsidian’s next RPG feels like a sequel to a game we haven’t played or a story we’ve never read. Tyranny, which is built on a modified version of the tech used Pillars of Eternity, doesn’t depict the beginning of an epic struggle between good and evil. Instead, it takes place in the aftermath of such a conflict,...
“Late-game crisis.” That’s what Henrik Fåhraeus, Game Director at Paradox Interactive, calls events that can occur near the end of upcoming space strategy game Stellaris to make the late game, as he puts it, “interesting.” Interesting isn’t quite the word I’d use. The late game crises in Stellaris he describes sound both awesome and terrifying, and they typically involve...
The Cities: Skylines Snowfall expansion will be out in just over a week, adding, as the name obliquely hints, snow-themed maps, heating infrastructure, snowplows, and other such bits of winter misery that seem like fun until you actually have to dig out your car at 6:30 in the freakin’ morning in the middle of freakin’...
