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Cities: Skylines 2 can't catch a break, as the long-awaited Bridges and Ports expansion is delayed again

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

Cities: Skylines 2's had a rough ride since it launched in 2023. There's no denying that Colossal Order has made some substantial improvements to the wonky launch build in the nearly two years since it arrived, but it feels like the team is constantly juggling a variety of issues. In the original post-launch roadmap, which went up to the second quarter of 2024, one asset pack and one expansion were teased.
Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

In my early 20s, I hopped over to Amsterdam with some friends. I'd just ended a long-term relationship and was determined to melt my brain. On the third day of our trip, we rented a cabin outside the city, surrounded by farmland and chickens, and devoured too many mushrooms. For the next few hours, I was treated to a world where everything glowed purple. Especially the trees. Which also seemed to be constantly moving towards me—though, now that I think about it, I may have been walking towards them.
Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Fraser Brown

Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dreamTime for a trip. In my early 20s, I hopped over to Amsterdam with some friends. I'd just ended a long-term relationship and was determined to melt my …
The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise-and that might just be their secret sauce

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

At PC Gamer we occasionally run tabletop RPG campaigns remotely, with senior editor Robin Valentine as our long-suffering GM. I like to think of my role as 'agent of chaos'—all scrapes and japes. Maybe I'll sacrifice myself to save everyone on a dying space station. Maybe I'll betray everyone and kill a former guides editor. Maybe I'll just derail a Star Wars-themed RPG by constantly describing how bad my Duros character smells (it's all in the lore, folks).
The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce | Flipboard

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Fraser Brown

5 hours agoI switched my $1,000 desktop for a $300 mini PC. I regret nothingYou might not need as much computer as you think. Earlier this year, I impulse-bought a tiny, inexpensive desktop PC for research purposes. I didn’t …3 hours agoErm… just checking, but social media's dead now, right? Even Mark Zuckerberg knows itMark Zuckerberg's admitted as much in court: the networks that wanted to connect us all are now dead platforms walking. Wondering why your social feed …
Oblivion Remastered player gets flung in jail for 20 million days just for some petty crime

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

The longest recorded prison sentence served was just shy of 71 years. Charles Foussard was incarcerated in 1903 after murdering a man and stealing his boots. At the age of 92, he died in prison. Over in Oblivion Remastered, meanwhile, player Scribe_Of_Satire served a sentence of 55,284 years, or 20,178,790 days. Spotted by our pals at GamesRadar, Scribe_Of_Satire shared this dizzying prison sentence over on the Oblivion subreddit.
It turns out the gigantic rats you have to kill in so many RPG quests are totally real, and now I need to apologise to RPG designers

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

Before you get to start slaying dragons or thwarting the plans of evil deities, RPGs tend to test your mettle with more mundane fare. Typically this involves a filthy tavern with a rodent problem. It's such an ancient trope that RPG designers have been poking fun at it for decades, like 2004's The Bard's Tale, which sees you slay a single, solitary rat, celebrate your heroism, and cowardly run away after a much larger rat appears and sets you on fire.
Dawn of War, the undisputed king of Warhammer 40k RTS games, is getting a remaster, but Relic isn't changing too much: 'We don't want to fix something that isn't broken'

2 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition - Announcement Trailer - YouTubeWatch On Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is one of the GOATs, and in many ways represents one of the last hurrahs for the traditional base-building RTS. See, in the early '00s, the once glorious RTS genre was starting to show signs of wear and tear as it tried to adapt to a changing videogame landscape.
Dawn of War, the undisputed king of Warhammer 40k RTS games, is getting a remaster, but Relic isn't changing too much: 'We don't want to fix something that isn't broken' | Flipboard

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Fraser Brown

1 hour agoWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine VR Defenders of Avarax - Official Threat: Lethal TrailerCheck out the latest Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine VR Defenders of Avarax trailer for another look at this arcade shooter game, available only at …1 hour agoWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 - Official Announce TrailerHere's your look at gameplay and more from Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 in this announcement trailer for the upcoming sequel to the FPS game. …
'That magic is back': Peter Molyneux really wants you to know he's not hyping Masters of Albion, while name-dropping Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable

2 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

I've kinda turned around on Peter Molyneux. The man cannot stop over-hyping and over-promising, and it makes it hard to trust anything he says—especially after the Curiosity and Godus fiascos—but increasingly I feel like he's just the sort of person who dreams big and can't contain their excitement, even when it's only going to lead to disappointment. And he's at it again.

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Articles

Cities: Skylines 2 can't catch a break, as the long-awaited Bridges and Ports expansion is delayed again

Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream

Morrowind with every texture deleted is a beautiful magenta fever dream

The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise-and that might just be their secret sauce

The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce | Flipboard

Oblivion Remastered player gets flung in jail for 20 million days just for some petty crime

It turns out the gigantic rats you have to kill in so many RPG quests are totally real, and now I need to apologise to RPG designers

Dawn of War, the undisputed king of Warhammer 40k RTS games, is getting a remaster, but Relic isn't changing too much: 'We don't want to fix something that isn't broken'

Dawn of War, the undisputed king of Warhammer 40k RTS games, is getting a remaster, but Relic isn't changing too much: 'We don't want to fix something that isn't broken' | Flipboard

'That magic is back': Peter Molyneux really wants you to know he's not hyping Masters of Albion, while name-dropping Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable

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