Good-game maker Blendo Games is making what looks to be another good game. Placing you inside a spaceship full of dusty ventilation systems that cause sneezing and broken glass that tends to get caught in bare feet, Skin Deep pulls elements...

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...

I like computer books. I have a shelf packed with programming textbooks, stories about the industry, and a library of eBooks on various languages I learn and work with. I also have one oddity published by O'Reily called Getting Started With...

Rise and shine, it's nearly time to get to work. PC players have been farming with friends in Stardew Valley for a few months now, but the pastures are about to get bigger and greener. The Switch version should be getting cooperative m...

If anyone was going to rep a marijuana tycoon game, it was bound to be Devolver Digital. The publisher is working with Oh... Sir! The Insult Simulator developer Vile Monarch on Weedcraft Inc, a game about turning a humble weed business into...

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...

I've never dipped my toes into the truck-driving-simulation life, but then, American Truck Simulator has never spoken to me as directly as it does with the soon-to-launch Oregon expansion. I want to drive over Portland's many bridges withou...

Folks have been clamoring for Slime Rancher in virtual reality, and I definitely see the appeal. The aesthetic is simple enough that it wouldn't lose much in the transfer, the gameplay is a natural fit in terms of pacing, and the slimes wou...

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 ...

When you play an urban planning simulator like SimCity or Cities: Skylines, you probably don't give much thought to the structures themselves, other than trying to place them where they'll do the most good. Indie developer Blackstaff Games ...

Ubisoft Blue Byte is heading to the 19th century for its upcoming city builder Anno 1800. Previously dated for winter 2018, the historical game has now settled into a February 26, 2019 launch on PC. It should be a nice break from the recent...

Sim game developer Twice Circled has moved from the world of pharmaceutical conglomerates to fish keeping. The studio's next title, Megaquarium, is a tycoon game about running a public aquarium. A lot more work goes into keeping a healthy ...

In the early years of the app store, back before freemium titles starting raking in millions through microtransactions, EA released a decent if feature-poor version of Sim City 3000 simply titled Sim City for iPhone. If you go in ...

Increasingly, there's a simulator out there for everyone. Some people like farming. Others manage cities. A bunch of folks enjoy hauling cargo across Europe and America. I'm partial to flipping crummy houses. These experiences might seem to...

When Surgeon Simulator launched five years ago, it was a hilariously odd riff on all the ridiculous "simulator" games that started to flood the digital market. I'm pretty certain it wasn't meant to be taken seriously, but it somehow blew up...

Frontier Developments has announced that its hit dino theme park simulator Jurassic World Evolution has reached a combined sales total of one million units. This is factoring in the PS4, Xbox One and PC releases along with digital sales fig...

Hospitals have always been a major part of my life. I was born with a rare skin disease that goes by many names but the one I've most heard it referred to as is Giant Congenital Nevus. In layman's terms, the disease is an over pigmentation ...

Some people become obsessed with automating processes or otherwise improving their efficiency in video games, and I can completely sympathize. Today's Automatic Update for Slime Rancher caters to that exact mindset by adding programmable dr...

“Personally, I love fighting games, and shooters, and violent games in general.”  That wasn’t exactly what I thought I’d hear from Yasuhiro Wada when I asked him what types of games he enjoys playing. Friday aft...

There's a simulator for everything these days. It started with managing cities, theme parks, and ant colonies; it moved on to simulating digital avatars and the communities in which they lived, worked, and played; and now, the ultimate in s...

Yo, I heard you like giveaways for wacky simulation games so I put another giveaway for a wacky simulation game up the day after another giveaway for a wacky simulation game. Today's offering should provide the meta-commentary on PC gaming ...

EA and Maxis have announced that the Cats and Dogs expansion for The Sims 4 will be heading to PS4 and Xbox One on July 31, 2018. The pack brings a whole heap of different cat and dog breeds to add a furry companion to your Sims' life. It i...

First, you build the park and hire staff, then you begin expeditions in search of fossils and mosquitoes trapped in amber. Then comes creating new life from something long dead millions of years ago, all while ignoring the opinions of someo...

Chaos theory, at its core, is simply a mathematical view and model in which anything can end up drastically different within a dynamic system. Or as one Dr. Ian Malcolm once said: “The shorthand is the butterfly effect. A butterfly ca...

PC Gaming Show continues to give us reveals for games we already knew about, and the latest bit of news involves Star Control: Origins. Its big claim to fame is that the entire universe is living out its dreams as you're playing, and it'll ...