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Cities: Skylines gets terraforming in a new patch, as well as some additional map features. Check out the full patch notes here

How The First Resident Evil‘s Been Censored And Changed Since 1996

Plenty of games have been touched up and altered as the years went on, but few games have seen as many changes as the original Resident Evil. This piece originally appeared 1/19/15. Ports of old games are common, but what’s interesting about Resident Evil is how often Capcom has actually censored, changed, modified, and added…

Telltale has announced a third season of The Walking Dead for later this year (via Mashable), in addition to new Minecraft episodes—three total—in 2016. The Walking Dead will reportedly pick up on threads from the last season, but in an “unexpected” way, whatever that means.

Sony Shuts Down Driveclub Developer Evolution Studios

Evolution Studios, the developers behind Motorstorm and Driveclub, have been shut down, Sony confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz Sony told the publication the decision came after a regular review of every developer within Sony to ensure “a competitive landscape can create and produce high quality, innovative and commercially viable projects.” “It is regrettable that this decision will…

Make Sure To Wear The Silver Shroud Costume In Fallout 4′s Automatron DLC

Fallout 4’s DLC debuts today, and if you go into it prepared, you’ll find a few cool surprises. By now, you probably know that Automatron’s villain is none other than the Mechanist, a character that exists within Silver Shroud lore. And as it turns out, if you wear your Silver Shroud costume in the DLC,…

Hyper Light Drifter is coming to PC and Mac March 31st. Here’s a new trailer to celebrate, which says the game will be coming to consoles later this year.

IO announced today that they’ve delayed the release of Hitman’s Elusive Targets until April. The unfortunate news is that we’re pushing out the Elusive Targets until closer to the planned release of the next episode, Sapienza in April, but you’ll get two Escalation Contracts coming each week until the release of Sapienza and between these…

Smite Celebrates Second Anniversary With PS4 Open Beta

Hi-Rez Studios kicks off a week of second anniversary shenanigans in its god-powered multiplayer online battle arena with an open invitation to PlayStation 4 owners to play. Plus daily special events, some dancing, and a ridiculously low price on every character in the game. Following tremendous success on the PC and Xbox One, the PlayStation…

UK Artist Makes Enormous Pikachu Mosaic Out of 12,987 Pokémon Cards

In possibly the most ostentatious celebration yet of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, UK artist Quentin Devine has created a Pikachu mosaic out of nearly 13,000 different Pokémon cards. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The thing is about 10 meters tall and 7 meters wide, and was unveiled in Paris yesterday. Photos via The Pokémon…

Lara Croft’s going to fight zombies in Rise of the Tomb Raider’s next DLC. The Cold Darkness Awakened add-on hits next week, bringing with it a mini-campaign that has the heroine facing off against infected, rabid enemies.

One Does Not Simply Prepare for World of Warcraft: Legion

Anduin, the Prince of Stormwind is not just a Hearthstone priest hero everyone hates. As Dark Legacy Comics shows, the heir to the throne of Stormwind has his issues in World of Warcraft as well. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Laputa LEGO Castle Is Also a Tiny Music Box

As the tiny LEGO version of the castle in the sky rotates, a music box beneath is playing the theme tune of the Studio Ghibli classic. It’s an awesome, compact build (via Brothers Brick) by Bangoo H and Yeom-E, small enough to fit inside a glass bottle. To contact the author of this post, write…

It’s a high-tech encyclopedia! Celebrating Pokémon’s 20th birthday, 3D artist Jason Voet created a rather good-looking 3D Pokédex model in the span of a couple weeks. Look here for work-in-progress shots. Dayshot is an image-based feature showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got…

Star Ocean: Integrity & Faithlessness will be out this summer on the PS4 in the West, Square Enix (via Siliconera) has announced. The game is hitting this month in Japan.

Awesome Dystopian Sci-Fi Art? Don’t Mind If We Do.

Josan Gonzalez has the second volume of his awesome sci-fi comic/art book The Future is Now up on Kickstarter Below are some pieces from the book. They should cover your desktop wallpaper needs for, oh, around forever Since Volume One sold out so quickly, the Kickstarter is also offering people who missed out the chance…

How To Be A Great Dungeon Master

The idea of being a Dungeon Master in a tabletop RPG is, understandably, pretty daunting. A table full of people looking at you constantly, listening to your every word, stumbling clumsily through your well-crafted world with all the grace of an out-of-control semi-trailer? A nightmare by anybody’s standards. But don’t worry! You got this. We…

Spelunky’s Journey From Pixel Game To Console Classic

It’s rare that gamers ever get to hear the full story behind how (and why) a game was made. So it’s awesome that Derek Yu, the creator of Spelunky, has written a book that does just that. Published by Boss Fight, Spelunky is Yu’s autobiographical, full-blown account of the making of the game, going very…

Scribblenauts developer 5th Cell laid off 45 employees today, following layoffs last week, the studio told me. Contrary to tweets, creative director Jeremiah Slaczka said they’re not shutting down. Latest layoffs are due to WB cancelling a Scribblenauts mobile game. Remaining staff is “tiny,” said Slaczka.

That Time George Romero Almost Directed A Resident Evil Movie

It would have been cool if the father of modern zombies ended up adapting the biggest zombie franchise in video games, but it wasn’t mean to be. The five Resident Evil movies released since 2002, each written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, haven’t been very good. (The first one was OK, I guess?) In…

The Numbers Behind The Piracy of A Popular Steam Game

Boxing management tycoon Punch Club hit the top Steam charts at launch, marking it as a game that did well on the digital storefront. Even so, the number of people who pirated the game vastly overshadows the number of people who actually bought it. Developers Tiny Build wrote a post today detailing the piracy data…