The first premium DLC expansion for Cities Skylines II continues to be an embarrassment for Colossal Order’s otherwise leading city building series. Already the developer and publisher Paradox Interactive decided to pull the DLC from sale and issue refunds to any who bought it. Now, it seems that a title update coping with the removal of the DLC, pending its free addition to the main game, has caused near-fatal visual glitches that wreck players’ cities. It could take up to three weeks to resolve this new issue, Colossal Order told fans. Official forums and the subreddit for Cities Skylines I ..read more

Atari is reviving the Infogrames brand and retooling it into a publishing label with a brand new acquisition. The relaunched Infogrames, formerly a French video game holding company under the Atari banner, will now focus on publishing and acquiring intellectual properties (IP), starting with We’re Five Games’ Totally Reliable Delivery Service. This comes just a few months after a massive $2 million acquisition from Atari at the end of last year. The ragdoll physics simulation focuses on terrible package delivery couriers, challenging players to use machinery, unusual gadgets, and baffling phy ..read more

Xbox, riding the hype for Disney Plus’ X-Men ’97 following its premiere a month ago, is giving away a custom X-Men themed Xbox Series X whose case is literally a comic book. Announced Tuesday, the collaboration with Marvel Animation puts an original two-page story and cover on the console, by Marvel artist Paco Diaz and writer Rich Douek. In the comic-book casemod, Cyclops leads the X-Men into battle against the Sentinel robots and their leader, Master Mold. An announcement from Xbox Wire says that a Series X makes a cameo in the Danger Room, too. Only one is available, and it will be given ..read more

EA Play brings free access and play of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to Xbox Game Pass on both PC and console. EA Play members, PC Game Pass, and Ultimate Game Pass members will be able to play Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for free, continuing the next chapter in Jedi Cal Kestis’ story, as announced by Xbox. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor follows Cal as he explores the galaxy far, far away still further, taking him to new planets and familiar locales. As well as meet new species and characters, there are new game mechanics and fighting techniques to learn for players. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has won variou ..read more

EVE Online has long since transcended being called merely a game. Books are written about it’s politics. Great battles are recorded for posterity in the same way as we know all about the great battles of history – 1066, The Somme, Stalingrad, and so many more and yet, for a first-timer loading up the game it is difficult to see how to get involved in the bigger picture. To get into Eve is to start a second life, in computer-generated space. June 11th will see EVE’s latest expansion, Equinox, arrive and this is not something beginners will be lured into easily. If you don’t know the game then ..read more

The Electronic Software Association, the main lobby for the video games in the United States, remains flatly uninterested in helping any video game preservation efforts. On Thursday, an ESA lawyer told a rulemaking hearing of the U.S. Copyright Office his group’s membership doesn’t support any exceptions to U.S. copyright law that would aid preservation efforts. ESA lawyer Steve Englund told the panel that the ESA is still firmly opposed to allowing libraries to preserve older video games. Video game preservationists have lobbied for exceptions to copyright law that would allow for scholarly ..read more

The classic sci-fi strategy game Homeworld was due to have its third installment available already, some 20 years after the last one, but delays have caused it to be pushed back a little. Much like public transport you wait 20 years for one and then suddenly multiple show up at the same time and we are about to get Homeworld: Vast Reaches to play with in our Meta Quest headsets (Quest 2 and 3 at least). We picked Homeworld: Far Reaches as one of the best upcoming games for the Quest 3 recently and it’s great news it now has a release date, and even better news that that release date is only a ..read more

Pop megastar Billie Eilish has arrived in Fortnite (Festival at least) and, just as the roadmap leak suggested, she is headlining the main stage in Season 3. Lady Gaga is no more, step forward the queen of green. The update happened today which means the Billie Eilish skin, for Festival at least, is available with the main Battle Royale skin sure to follow before too long. How to get Billie Eilish Fortnite Festival skin What’s this, you have to buy the Festival Season Pass? Yes, in a move away from what we have seen before where character skins have been purchasable in the Item shop the only ..read more

Twenty-five years after Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness launched for Nintendo 64, someone has discovered a new Konami code lurking within — and it’s a pretty useful one. Found by two fans on the Castlevania 64 speedruns Discord server, this code unlocks all characters, plus their alternate costumes, plus a hard mode, on the spot. Previously, fans earned these unlocks after beating the game twice. But wait, there’s more. The fans also discovered another two cheat codes very helpful to one’s playthrough, especially if it’s a speedrun. One code completely fills the player’s inventory, no matter ..read more

Fallout is, to put it mildly, having a bit of a moment. The success of the Amazon TV show has prompted a huge wave of players to install (or reinstall) the most recent Fallout game to continue to enjoy the unique ambiance of the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Fallout 4 has seen a 538% increase in concurrent players on Steam since the launch of the show. What’s that? Yes, Fallout 4, which came out in 2015, is the most recent Fallout game (Fallout 76, which is also seeing a boom in players, is more recent with a 2018 release date but is considered a spin-off rather than a main series game). Surely ..read more