"As soon as it fired up, he'd get up and go to lunch": How Age of Empires' developers tested mission difficulty
When bosses have assessed my work over the years it's usually taken the form of nervously watching their cursor bounce …
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"A balancing paradigm I often look at is Starcraft": Total War: Medieval 3 won't lean too hard on rock-paper-scissors combat, says creative director
Creative Assembly's Total War games offer up a wide spread of factions, from rampaging Gauls to furtive and disgusting Wood …
Netflix's Assassin's Creed TV show is about assassins roaming Ancient Rome and its hero might meet Nero
It's been a while since Ubisoft and Netflix announced they were doing an Assassin's Creed TV show. The good news …
New Slay The Spire 2 patch will "make infinites harder to achieve" by letting the Doormaker eat your cards, amongst other surprises
Slay The Spire 2's first actual proper major update is upon us, an avalanche of balancing tweaks and fixes for …
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 …
Fortnite adds buildable Star Wars islands, so you can finally make a Mos Eisley Cantina full of flossing Jawas
Fortnite's just gotten a new toolset that'll let folks build Star Wars-themed islands at the start of May, wich is …
Former Mount & Blade modders are making Kinstrife, a medieval mosh pitter set in 13th century Germany
Arrrrrrrrrghhhh. Slash. Thunk. Well, we're a man down. It's a good thing that in the genre of strategy sandboxes built …
"The sheer scale is daunting": These Baldur's Gate 3 modders are remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign, with a first demo already out
Last August, I wrote about a Baldur's Gate 3 modder who had recreated Candlekeep, the library-fortress which serves as the …
Esque Going Medieval hits 1.0 today after almost five years of early access
The time is upon us! The time, that is, to go medieval through Going Medieval, the very Rimworld-like colony sim …
Fear not, phobia havers, Slay the Spire 2 will be catering to you in a future update
Broadly speaking accessibility features still have a long way to go in most games, however, one that has been cropping …
Latest Slay The Spire 2 update stops you having over a billion HP, while tweaking the deckbuilder's mod support
Roguelike deckbuilder Slay The Spire 2 continues its journey through early access with an update that fixes various crash bugs, …
Though they might riot over it
There's nothing more annoying than watching a mouse snack away on an apple in the warehouse when you explicitly built …