Cities: Skylines Town Has One House, One Family

My Cities: Skylines metropolis ended up pretty big! The game, like its peers in the genre, encourages you to go big in order to unlock new/better stuff. But you don’t have to. In fact, you make your city as small as it could possibly be. This PC Gamer piece shows what happens when you build…

Mom Honors Pledge, Plays Mario With Son On Wedding Day

As if weddings weren’t sweet enough. When The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg (formerly of Gawker) asked this question last year, she got what turned out to be one half of a reply. The other half came this week, with an update. If they were late, at least they had an awesome excuse. (via nrvalleytime @ NeoGAF)…

First-Person Mod Lets You Walk Cities: Skylines‘ Streets

First-person? In a city builder? It might sound strange, but there’s nothing quite like getting your city humming along to a perfect, efficient rhythm and then having a leisurely look around. Now you can see all of Cities: Skylines‘ smallest details. The mod, along with thousands of others (already!), popped up today, one day after…

Want to watch Richard from HBO’s Silicon Valley playing Total War: Attila? Actor and writer Thomas Middleditch is streaming live on Twitch right now, and he’s so excited about the game it’s adorable. You can watch along here

Dungeon Hunter 5 Discovers Exciting New Ways To Disappoint Me

Over its first four iterations Gameloft’s Diablo-esque Dungeon Hunter has transformed from excellent premium mobile game to mildly greedy free-to-play. With this week’s release of Dungeon Hunter 5 the series becomes a mildly greedy free-to-play hack-and-slash card-collecting defense game, aka just about everything I dislike about mobile games. I’m not even upset about the free-to-play…

A Moment Of Appreciation For EVE Online’s Starship Design

It’s widely known to the outside world for its politics, but EVE Online is also a rather pretty video game, especially when it comes to the unique and varied design of its spaceships. Capitalising on this — and, you know, the huge amount of people actually playing the game — Dark Horse are releasing a…

A Game Where You Play As Your Dad And Fight Anti-Dads

Dad By The Sword might have the best premise I’ve heard all year. I can’t even do this proper justice. Read what the game’s creators have to say: “Dad By The Sword is a First Person Sword-combat game about YOUR DAD running around in jean shorts as he slays Anti-Dads with a claymore and various…

Basement Is Basically Breaking Bad: The Video Game

Basement, an indie strategy game currently in development, is about a “scientist that has been forced to do not exactly legal stuff underground”. You know where this is going. It’s a strategy and management game all about making, then selling, hard drugs. Starting off in a small basement, you’ve got to manage production, hire employees…

If You Die In This Game, You Can Never Play Again. Ever.

Some games have permadeath, where death causes you to lose a character forever. Upsilon Circuit, however, has perma-permadeath. If you lose, you can never play the game again. The fantasy RPG plops specially selected players onto a single server and divides them into two teams of four. This means only eight players will ever be…

Elite: Dangerous now has “Wings”. As in, you and your buddies can team up and fly through the galaxy, sharing map locations, comms and even bonuses for trading. 14 year-old Luke is like “holy shit, finally”. Contact the author at [email protected]

The Steam Controller Is Actually Decent Now

When Valve unveiled the first prong of their living room invasion, the Steam controller, it was unique, but also hella wonky. Since then, it’s been through multiple revisions and overhauls. The result? Something not quite as good as a mouse-and-keyboard, but close. Back when I first tried the Steam controller, it was all haptic feedback…

Food for thought.

A Hilariously Drawn Out League Of Legends Pentakill

Killing all five members of the opposing team within a few seconds of one another in League of Legends is such an impressive feat that it has its own name: “pentakill.” Like many awesome League plays, it’s also old hat by pro players’ standards. Except for those great moments when it seems like you’re so…

Hey, Atlus Just Announced A Really Rad-Looking RPG

So, OK. On one hand, the boringly-titled Lost Dimension looks like a pretty typical turn-based strategy-role-playing game, with anime graphics and a bit of a Valkyria Chronicles flair to it. On the other hand, well, there’s this, via publisher Atlus (who announced today that they’re publishing Lost Dimension in North America this summer for PS3…