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Colossal Order's biggest mistake working on Cities: Skylines 2? Banking on not-quite-ready Unity features
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Colossal Order's biggest mistake working on Cities: Skylines 2? Banking on not-quite-ready Unity features

Is it fair to say Cities: Skylines 2's development has been incredibly messy? I'd say it's fair, after all, the game has completely shifted developers in the past few months, that doesn't sound like smooth sailing to me. In the nearly three years since it was released, the city builder still has plenty of issues to deal with, perhaps a symptom of a more industry wide problem. But in a recent interview, Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of the game's now former developer Colossal Order, has spoken about

"We're not perfectly replicating the real world, that would be crazy": The invisible design behind Firewatch's pine cones and picture frames
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"We're not perfectly replicating the real world, that would be crazy": The invisible design behind Firewatch's pine cones and picture frames

It's easy to look at a walking simulator like Firewatch and only see what's been stripped out. After all, it's a genre that got its start when developers took the shooting out of first-person shooters. However, look a little closer and you will see how much design can go into the simplest interactions. In the lookout cabin you call home in Firewatch there is a desk. On one side of that desk you will find a pine cone and on the opposite side you will find a picture frame. Hover your cursor over

Shenmue 3 Enhanced is a shinier version of Yu Suzuki's opus with a new camera option that harkens back to the original
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Shenmue 3 Enhanced is a shinier version of Yu Suzuki's opus with a new camera option that harkens back to the original

Shenmue is a game that will just always be there, I can't quite imagine a world without it. Just hanging around in the background, waiting for you patiently, maybe even coming into the foreground to say hello again because it missed you. That time of saying hello appears to be rearing its beautiful head again, as Ys Net (and of course the one and only Yu Suzuki himself) have announced a new, shinier edition of Shenmue 3 is on the way. Read more

Dark Scrolls is a dungeon scroller from the Gunbrella devs, starring fantasy staples like an obligatory thief and "Rat with saxophone"
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Dark Scrolls is a dungeon scroller from the Gunbrella devs, starring fantasy staples like an obligatory thief and "Rat with saxophone"

Right, roll call time. "A barbarian (for all the bonk boys in the audience)". Present. A mage who's the smartypants choice. Yeah. A thief, who's both "classic" and "obligatory". Here. "Rat with saxophone". Yup. Right, that's all of the fantasy trope character types accounted for in Dark Scrolls, a roguelike dungeon-running platformer from the devs behind Gunbrella and Gato Roboto. Read more

Vampire Crawlers invites you to an average Italian countryside with an April release date
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Vampire Crawlers invites you to an average Italian countryside with an April release date

Vampires! They don't just survive now, but crawl too, as evidenced by poncle's follow-up to their tight and already quite influential bullet heaven Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors. Which now, as shared in an on brand, irreverently silly trailer, has a release date! Read more

Hoarder is just a beautiful Polish cleaning sim from a former Darkwood dev, until you find the staircase to the very different game beneath
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Hoarder is just a beautiful Polish cleaning sim from a former Darkwood dev, until you find the staircase to the very different game beneath

The co-creator of extremely good horror game Darkwood is making a cleaning simulator, comparable to PowerWash Simulator and Viscera Cleanup Detail. Or at least, something that starts out as a cleaning simulator, and may even end as a cleaning simulator, if you choose, but which harbours sunken secrets that unlock an entirely different species of game. A bit like Inscryption, yes. They're calling it Hoarder. The development team are Byzel (Polish for mess or clutter, apparently), who are part of

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is now available on PC
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DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is now available on PC

As potentially one of the last Sony PlayStation published releases on PC, DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is officially out now from KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Valorant Twitch drops and how to claim
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Valorant Twitch drops and how to claim

Valorant Twitch drops are typically announced in time for big VCT LAN events, and here's how to claim free loot, courtesy of Riot Games, when live.