Author: Sarah Thwaites

Nearly 10 years on from 2015’s Helldivers, Helldivers 2 carefully adapts the simple yet exciting formula of bug-blasting with buddies for a modern audience. Arrowhead Game Studios has swapped the top-down perspective for third-person while maintaining the frenetic, ballistic loop of crash-landing on hostile planets, completing difficult missions, and extracting against all odds. In a…

In the technical world of city-builders, 2015’s Cities: Skylines made a name for itself as an uncompromising but delicate game where players needed to spin a variety of municipal plates to keep things in order across their fantasy cities. Eight years and millions of digital building permits later, Colossal Order has returned to construct a…

[ad_1] Something I love about clay modelling is that you can see your fingerprints in the final product. I’m not very good at modelling, so I couldn’t remove the marks even if I wanted to. But because of this, no matter the shape or ambition, each little thing I make feels distinctly my…