Month: October 2024

We all know traffic management is half the game in Cities: Skylines. As for Cities: Skylines 2, it seems the devs at Colossal Order have been paying close attention to the road tools we use most to ease the burdens that busy junctions place on our cities. As such, they look to have added a brand-spanking new tool to help keep traffic flowing, in the form of a No Straight Through road sign tool.

It’s going to be super useful for creating dedicated lanes, as before there were only No Right/Left Turn signs in the game’s Road Tools menu. 

The new road tool was spotted by famed Cities road traffic fixer and tea connoisseur, BiffaPlays, when it showed up in the most recent official live stream. And as he notes in his Twitter post, it looks like the devs have finally listened …

Helldivers 2 has several objectives that can be flattened with enough heavy ordinance—walking barrages, orbital lasers, and a community favourite: the 500kg bomb, an explosive payload so huge it feels like a mini-nuke when it goes off.

In case you aren’t carrying any of those, though, Helldivers 2 is nice enough to give you a hellbomb stratagem for its ‘destroy X’ objectives—which is a nice (and slower) alternative for the unprepared. Unless you’re fighting Automaton gunships, in which case: it’s the only option. 

As discovered by a brave member of Super Earth’s R&D division on the game’s subreddit (thanks, Gamesradar), the new Automaton gunship factories are impervious to everything but a Hellbomb payload. User keiXrome tested a whole host of h…

Vampire empire survival and crafting RPG V Rising has a proper launch trailer ahead of its 1.0 launch this week on May 8—almost exactly two years from its May 17, 2022 Early Access release.

The trailer goes over the experience of what V Rising is, a crafting and base-building survival RPG about vampires conquering the mortal world and each other, and also goes into some detail about the upcoming 1.0 release patch and what it’ll have in store.

The release patch will include  Dracula’s fallen kingdom Mortium, a dynamic zone that has players battle agains the remnants of the self-proclaimed vampire king’s legions. The rest of the game world has also gotten some new love, with reworks and touchups to old zones and additions—like a new light engine—that set…

As it goes with any long-running RPG series, Diablo is crammed full of proper nouns—Inarius and the Horadrim and the Nephalem and so on. If Diablo 4 is going to be your first crack at the series (or hell, if you understandably need a refresher) Blizzard has a new video in which its developers set up the story for you with a bit of context from the series origins and the end of Diablo 3.

For starters, Diablo 4 kicks off 50 years after the events of Diablo 3’s Reaper of Souls DLC during which half of the population of Sanctuary (the mortal realm between the heavens and hells) was killed off by the archangel of death, Malthael. Sanctuary’s original creators, the angel Inarius and demon Lilith have both returned and, wouldn’t you know it, that’s not really going to go wel…

Remember when a new Alienware PC was something exciting? Yes, yes, you almost certainly weren’t going to buy one. Even if you could afford them, Alienwares of old usually weren’t actually the fastest PCs you could buy. But a bit like a Lamborghini that isn’t actually as quick as a cheaper Porsche 911 Turbo, Alienware rigs didn’t need to actually be the fastest. They always had that critical air of the exotic.

In short, the mere existence of Alienware PCs made the world a more interesting place. Well, not any more. Alienware’s assimilation by the Dell corporate collective is now complete. The latest Alienware Aurora R16 has arrived and it’s a generic mid-sized box.

In other words, it’s absolutely nothing like Alienwares of yore, such as the slightly bonkers triangle-shaped Ar…

Ready at Dawn, the developer of The Order: 1866 and the Lone Echo VR games, has reportedly been closed by parent company Meta. An Android Central report says the studio’s closure comes as part of an effort to meet budget reductions, reported in July, at the company’s Reality Labs VR division.

Ready at Dawn was founded in 2003 and developed games for various PlayStation platforms until shifting focus to VR development with the 2017 release of Lone Echo for the Oculus Rift. A standalone multiplayer spinoff called Echo VR followed, but despite being a notable success in the VR market it was closed in August 2023, ostensibly so the studio could “focus on our next project.” 

But there was no next project: Ready at Dawn’s most recent release was Lone Echo 2, which came out in…