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The original Cities: Skylines is getting a new Race Day expansion next week, as Paradox parade the fact the series is turning 11
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The original Cities: Skylines is getting a new Race Day expansion next week, as Paradox parade the fact the series is turning 11

Welp. The Cities: Skylines series turns 11 years old today, so publishers Paradox have announced a bunch of stuff designed to celebrate that occasion. Look, look, they've said, here's a brand new expansion for the original Cities: Skylines and it'll launch next week. Oh and, they've also said, recently under-new-management sequel Cities: Skylines 2 is getting a couple of creator packs. Read more

I swapped my gaming headset for IEM earphones, and I am in love
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I swapped my gaming headset for IEM earphones, and I am in love

Over the past few years, I've been searching for the best audio option for my PC gaming setup. It’s been a battle. I have big, satellite-dish ears and the kind of Neurospicy that makes ear cushions and heavy headsets unbearable to wear. I've tried and tested nearly a dozen headsets in my mission to find the best fit, and I recently found it in the most unexpected place: IEMs. Read more

Hooded Horse's terrific 4X strategy game Old World is getting another big DLC expansion set in south Asia
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Hooded Horse's terrific 4X strategy game Old World is getting another big DLC expansion set in south Asia

Hooded Horse and Mohawk Games have announced a new expansion for their resolutely pre-modern 4X strategy game Old World. It's called Empires of the Indus, and as you may guess, it concerns the nations and cultures that once flourished along the banks of the river Indus, running through central and south Asia. Nations and cultures like "the mighty Mauryas, who founded one of the greatest Iron Age empires under the rule of Emperor Ashoka" and "the nomadic horse lords of the Yuezhi who transformed

This week in PC games: Marathon, Slay The Spire 2, a promising Disco-like RPG and a monastic garden mystery
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This week in PC games: Marathon, Slay The Spire 2, a promising Disco-like RPG and a monastic garden mystery

Happy this week all! Some weeks, I do a couple of paragraphs of preamble before listing the new PC releases, but this week, there is no time, for the videogames are many, curious and capacious. Bungie's latest shooter and the return of Spire are among the larger drops in a deluge that makes me yearn for the quieter, pre-broadband period when the global economy could only support one videogame a month, and they were all delivered to your PC by horse and cart. Without further ado, FEED THE MAW.

Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"
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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"

Here, put on this pair of reflective sunglasses. Now regard the 21st century so far. Doesn’t it look as if the ideas of Deus Ex have spread into the mainstream? Like fire propagating across a dry hillside, the prevalence of emergent action with cascading consequences has spread throughout the gaming medium. Much of this movement towards Ion Storm-style thinking may be coincidental. Were the Nintendo team behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild making injokes about the Denton brothe