It's nice to have constants in this world. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, tides come in and go back out again, and Paradox releases post-launch DLC for all of their games. This expansion for Stellaris is for all you corpo-w...

The next DLC for Cities: Skylines is said to be one of the game's "most in-depth expansions" yet. Industries is coming first to PC and Mac on October 23 with the newfound ability for players to manage supply chains. You'll be able to harves...

While not being a particularly powerful console, the Nintendo Switch has managed well with demanding games. You can somehow play both 2016’s Doom and last year's Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus on the device and it isn’t an abso...

A little city management might just hit the spot on Nintendo Switch. During today's Nintendo Direct, Paradox and Tantalus announced a surprise release for Cities: Skylines - Nintendo Switch Edition. The new version sports a user interface ...

For everyone who thought they had an excuse when I asked them why they don't play grand strategies, think again! This morning ahead of Gamescom, Paradox Interactive announced that its runaway hit Stellaris would be the first grand strategy ...

Crusader Kings II is a fantastic strategy game that combines the best of real-world geographical locations, history, and unique player-driven stories. That said, when I'm not playing Crusader Kings II, one of my favorite pastimes is browsin...

The Paradox Interactive family just got a little bigger. Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind BattleTech and Shadowrun, is now a subsidiary of Paradox. As announced through a press release on Paradox's site, the Sweden-based publishe...

Along with announcing a new expansion pack for Hearts of Iron IV at PDXcon today, a new physical collector's edition was also announced in part for the anniversary of its release on June 6, 2017 and also for celebrating the one million sale...

Today at PDXcon's announcement show, among the game reveals, news of more DLC packs for Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, and Stellaris were all announced to be coming in 2018. The first pack to be released will be the Stellaris sto...

PDXcon 2018's announcement show ended with quite the spectacle. Game director Johan Andersson, adorned in a toga and led by a legion of centurions, took the stage to announce the latest game from Paradox Development Studios, Imperator: Rome...

When it was announced at PDXcon that Paradox would be bringing their games to a new platform, my fears initially turned to a glut of mobile gacha games with cutesy versions of old-world rulers that I'd have to pay to get a good roll of. How...

God morgon! While you were sleeping, PDXcon kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden with publisher Paradox's keynote address. The lead-up to this event has been rife with speculation about which games would be unveiled at the ominous "announcement ...

Building a city only to watch it go up in flames -- it's a feeling any sim-game mayor should know all too well. Cities: Skylines explored that and other doomsday scenarios a couple years back on PC, but with the newer PlayStation 4 and Xbox...

After a relatively successful Kickstarter campaign that brought in $2.7 million dollars to Harebrained Schemes to boost features, the latest BattleTech/MechWarrior video game, BattleTech, goes live today on the PC. For fans of the universe ...

Paradox Development Studio is known for its grand strategy games that have largely the same gameplay but are spread about different eras of human history. Six years ago though it released Crusader Kings II and while you could still move abo...

Mars is dead. The International Mars Mission, a global effort to establish a self-sufficient colony on Earth's nearest neighbor, is dead because of two idiots. The first idiot was Anthony Krillov, an idiot whose foolish, clumsy flailing cau...

Mods appear so infrequently in console games that whenever they do pop up, I feel like a quick little shout-out of encouragement is in order. This time, we're talking Cities: Skylines -- the Xbox One version is getting its first batch of pl...

Total Recall has taught me many things, chief among them that attempts to colonize Mars are bound to go real bad at some point. It can't be helped. But in the case of Haemimont Games' upcoming building management sim Surviving Mars, we'll a...

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is fast approaching. After securing $4.4 million in funding through Fig last year, Obsidian is already circling a PC release date for the CRPG sequel: April 3, 2018. That's soon. If you're invested in this w...

Well well well, what have we here? A new Humble Bundle from the good people at Paradox Interactive? Don't mind if I do, and I hope you will too. Granted you will have to be a strategy fan to appreciate this bundle as the majority of games i...

My fledgling city had been laid out in neat little rows; everything in its place. While I had yet to rid myself of my toxic coal plant, wind turbines were being raised to supplement it. My citizens were happily recycling one-hundred perc...

Continuing their conquest to make Crusader Kings II the longest DLC supported game ever, Paradox Interactive announced at Gamescom 2017 a new expansion for the five-year-old game. Jade Dragon will bring the Empire of China into the mix in a...

Aside from traffic, garbage is by far the biggest issue I've run into in Cities: Skylines. No matter how strategically I try to place landfills and incinerators, I always feel like I have an overabundance of pollution and too many garb...

After waiting patiently since the Xbox One release of Cities: Skylines in April, PlayStation 4 owners can now jump into the massively popular city builder. Ported over from the PC thanks to Tantalus Media, the game is bundled with the Night...

Paradox Interactive is good people. While they inexplicably increased the prices of the majority of their titles and DLC in multiple regions, much to the chagrin of their fanbase, they quickly changed their minds in the face of criticism an...