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Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions (Venture Beat)
Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It debuted in 1991, and now at 25, it has become one of the cultural touchstones of the game industry, something that everyone recognizes or has played in the past.
Star Wars Comes to XCOM 2 in New Mods (GameSpot)
XCOM 2 has seen its fair share of mods, including one that adds a gun shaped like a puppy. Now, some modders have created ways to make the alien-invaded Earth seem a bit more like a galaxy far far away.
XCOM 2, Now With 100% More Bob Ross (Kotaku)
XCOM 2 can be stressful as fuck. Thank goodness for Bob Ross and his soothing tones. Also his terrifying talent with a plasma rifle.
Overwatch isn’t coming to OSX, here’s why – and how Mac gamers could make it happen (PCGamesN)
Blizzard has had a long history of supporting Mac gaming, so to hear during Blizzcon that Overwatch was only coming to Windows, PS4 and Xbox One on launch and that there were no current plans for a Mac version was surprising and disappointing. I put the question to game director Jeff Kaplan in our interview – why now, on their most anticipated game in years, does Blizzard drop Mac support?
Terrifying players with unstable level design in Layers of Fear (Gamasutra)
“We had a lot of ideas for the rooms, and how we can use the environment to scare the player,” he says. One of the most successful ideas was getting players to make the building itself be unreliable.
Why did ‘Layers of Fear’ launch in the month of love? (Engadget)
“Paradoxically, we like to be scared,” says Rafal Basal, a spokesperson for the company. “Although we cannot say that we live in times devoid of problems and fears, but most of us rarely feel terrified and our bodies just need to remember how to react to fear. The horror genre gives us a way of filling that gap in a safe environment.”
In Defense Of XCOM Save Scumming (Kotaku)
It’s true, I’m one of those people: a save scummer. And I’m not ashamed of it.
The Batmobile is coming to Rocket League (PC Gamer)
Put to the back of your mind the blatancy of the promotional tie-in and the fact that Batman has about as little to do with Rocket League as it does with quality PC ports—that didn’t stop the DeLorean after all. There is something inescapably fantastic about scoring rocket-goals and demolishing lesser cars as the Batmobile.
Hard West’s Scars of Freedom DLC augments the game with new limbs and organs (Polygon)
Hard West won many fans with its paranormal take on the Wild West and its XCOM-like turn-based strategy gameplay. Scars of Freedom, its upcoming expansion from Warsaw, Poland-based developer CreativeForge Games, is still spooky — but the creepy atmosphere is less about demons than it is about Dr. Moreau-esque body modification.
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