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“Traffic jams can be incredibly frustrating, not only in real life, but also in Cities Skylines 2.” Those are the words of developer Iceflake Studios, which took control of the struggling city builder sequel in late 2025, and I couldn’t have put it better myself. Fortunately, such problems have been high on the priority list of changes, and new Cities Skylines 2 update ‘Morning Dew’ promises to make the flow of vehicles around your roads “smoother and less rage-inducing.” The plan is to limit the rate of awkward congestion by teaching your Cims to make better decisions, sooner. To start…
Namco’s 1994 racing game Ace Driver is getting its first ever home release this week.The game is the latest entry in the Arcade Archives series by Hamster Corporation, the Japan-based studio which specialises in re-releases of retro arcade and console games.Ace Driver was originally released in August 1994, 10 months after the release of Namco’s Ridge Racer.While it’s similar to Ridge Racer in that it features texture-mapped polygonal graphics and has players racing against opponents (sometimes in connected arcade cabinets), it wasn’t made by the same team.As such, it isn’t considered a spin-off or sequel to Ridge Racer – rather,…
David Hayter, the iconic voice behind Metal Gear’s Solid Snake, has teamed up with Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight star Shai Matheson in an adorable video response to claims that the two characters sound alike.Sometimes the best way to answer to your critics is by laughing along with them. I know I laugh through tears every time I read another comment about the so-called “skill issue” preventing me from enjoying Souls games, and Matheson is taking a similar approach to critiques of his Lego Batman voice, which many compare to a stuffy-nosed Solid Snake. Instead of pushing back…
If you’re like me, you’ve spent countless hours in Discord calls with your friends. Whether you’re grinding games or just shooting the breeze, Discord has become a hub for communication, especially with those who are in other countries or time zones. As great as being in those calls can be, it doesn’t quite match the experience of sitting together and chatting, but the team is trying to change that, with news that they are adding Spatial Audio to the platform. Discord’s Spatial Audio system will allow you to tweak how voice calls sound in real time. You’ll be able to…
Boss fights are arguably the bread-and-butter of most FromSoftware games, and despite all the broken controllers they’ve caused over the years, they’re usually – usually – fair to players. Even if you can’t always execute the right moves to beat them, you almost always know exactly what you did wrong on any given failed attempt. Those kinds of clear telegraphs are essential to good boss design, according to the dev bringing these fights to life in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.”Make attacks clear with the visual and audio cues,” Marcin Matuszczyk of Flying Wild Hog says in a talk at…
The Witcher 3 system requirements are very achievable, even for older or budget gaming PCs and laptops. However, both its next-gen update and its upcoming 10th anniversary DLC – called Songs of the Past – have seen the game’s system requirements rise since the game initially released. Some of these changes include hard drives no longer being supported and Windows 11 being required, so you may need to upgrade if you want to jump in and experience the new DLC for one of the greatest games ever made. These changes also include updates to the minimum graphics card requirements, although…
Yoshio Nishimura, a 30-year industry veteran known for art and design work on gorgeous Vanillaware games like Odin Sphere and 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, is about to release his very own game on Steam. It’s an RPG called Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, and the best way I can describe it is this: picture a playable D&D stat sheet with great illustrations.Veritas Tales is billed as a storybook RPG “in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story,” a classic fantasy film. Your character’s stats and inventory are shown on the right side of the screen – you can play…
Teamfight Tactics patch 17.4 is upon us, and Riot looks to be rebalancing conditionality. While the one-cost reroll menace was finally defeated in 17.3, I feel like the playstyle itself has been overcorrected. We do have a decent spread of higher-cost boards now, but highly-conditional boards continue to dominate – Serpent Stargazer Xayah, Dark Star emblem vertical, and Yi with the correct Psionic item all come to mind. If you don’t hit a narrow RNG chute, you’re suddenly in a four-way battle to hit the only real default board: Corki-Riven. In the patch 17.4 rundown, Live Balance Lead Tim ‘Truexy’…
PS3 emulation has come a long way thanks to the developers behind RPCS3. But those are unofficial efforts, and if you want to play that generation’s classics natively on a modern PS5 console, you’re out of luck. A new tech analysis suggests it might not even be possible for console hardware to handle the challenge of PS3 games until the PS6 generation.The issue holding back PS3 emulation in general is the console’s notorious Cell processor, which had six of what Sony called “Synergistic Processing Units.” The instructions powering PS3 games are built with those SPUs in mind, and apparently it’s…
As Rockstar gear up to release GTA 6 (at least on consoles), spare a thought for Red Dead Online. The multiplayer element of Red Dead Redemption 2 had its steady flow of major update-carrying stagecoaches stopped all the way back in 2022, with its makers explicitly citing a desire to shift those development resources over to that next entry in the stealy wheels series. There’ve been a few moments in the years since when Red Dead Online has looked a bit like it might bounce back to prominence, but nothing substantial in that vein has materialised. It essentially had a…