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A patch for Cities: Skylines 2 has been released today, addressing several issues with the game—though it doesn’t sound like it’s the overhaul needed to soothe the city builder’s biggest performance problems. Hopefully, that patch won’t be too much longer. One issue that should improve as a result of this patch is the Cities: Skylines…

Skyblivion, the ambitious mod recreating The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in Skyrim’s engine, has released a new video showing the dark and spooky side of Cyrodiil. Sure, the video was posted a day late for Halloween—or 364 days early for next Halloween—but who cares? I’m always excited to get another eyeful of the mod’s progress.…

Somehow it’s already November, which means a lot of games that were planning a 2023 release have to start publicly admitting, well, it just ain’t gonna happen.  We’ve seen a bit of that already. The Alone in the Dark reboot planned for October 2023 is now aiming for January 2024. Strategy city builder Manor Lords…

Trying to solve Cities: Skylines 2’s ‘Not Enough Customers’ issue? This icon pops up over commercial zones from time to time in your city, and it can be a little confusing—especially since it can coincide with a growing demand for more commercial zones. How can your city be demanding more commercial buildings if the existing…

This year colony survival sim Stranded: Alien Dawn left early access, but that doesn’t mean it’s done. Not content to wipe out your colony of hard-working survivors with giant alien bugs, debilitating injuries and illnesses, and deadly weather events, developer Haemimont Games is throwing something new at you next month: killer robots. In Stranded: Alien…

Dave the Diver is a genuine hit. The fishing and sushi restaurant management adventure has already rocketed to the top of my game of the year list, and it’s one of the most-played games on Steam. Now that it’s on Nintendo Switch, it’ll find even more fans. If you’re thinking about diving in yourself, we’ve…

Cities: Skylines 2 is here at last, and the new urban city builder honestly works a lot like the old 2015 one. If you’ve played Skylines before it won’t take you long to get up to speed, and if this is your first time playing there are lots of tutorials that will quickly have you…

Last week the developer of Cities: Skylines 2 warned players that the game doesn’t reach the performance benchmarks it was aiming for. I feel comfortable repeating this warning—while reviewing the game I had issues with frame rates, freezes and hiccups, occasional graphical glitches, and even a few crashes to desktop. Many other reviews cited performance…

Cities: Skylines 2 has an excellent photo mode for taking pictures of your city, but the folder where it saves those photos is a little tricky to find. Even stranger, it doesn’t follow the same save folder system the original Cities: Skylines did, so you really have to do some digging through your files to…