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...

Gaming memories: I have a few. I am two months shy of 39 and one-half years old. My first memories of gaming in my life...

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 ...

There's no shortage of highly-specialized simulator games on Steam, but none of have spoken to me quite like the promise of House Flipper, a first-person sim in which you clean, fix, paint, and furnish rooms for well-meaning clients before ...

I have such a soft spot for Arc System Works and Toybox Inc.'s little ecosystem simulation game Birthdays the Beginning. It just gets me, y'know? Fiddling with terrain levels to create seas and mountains that in turn affect climate change a...

I can't say that I've been eyeing Bus Simulator 18 all this time. I'm not really a fan of all these random "simulator" titles that exist, but they can provide a bit of fun to a very specific niche. The latest addition to the upcoming bus fo...

With Fire Pro Wrestling World making its way to PlayStation 4 later this summer, Spike Chunsoft has announced a new “Premium Edition” and “Digital Deluxe Edition” for its Japanese release. At a price of 9,800 yen (sl...

Green Hell is a psychological survival game in which you'll need to regularly check your body "for parasites, infections, and wounds" while trying to escape the harsh Amazon rainforest. I don't know what it says about me that I'm into that ...

For two decades, the Gran Turismo brand has been synonymous with glossy, detailed and realistic racing simulators. Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment released a press statement proudly announcing the series' latest milestone.From 1997's...

"Tycoon" style games used to be all the rage in the late ‘90s. After Rollercoaster Tycoon proved the formula was popular, various knock-offs flooded the casual PC market and made it incredibly easy to pick up a tycoon game for your pr...

I've spent a few hours with Stardew Valley's online co-op mode and, just like that, I'm one-hundred percent back into the farmer life. I can't stress how weird and wonderful it is to see another player running around Pelican Town after you'...

This War of Mine developer 11 bit studios is onto something special with Frostpunk, its newly-released "society survival game." In just over two days, the title passed 250,000 sales, with 11 bit CEO Grzegorz Miechowski confirming post-relea...

Slime Rancher is a total cutie. It's a first-person farming simulator about wrangling slimes and it has one of those well-paced gameplay loops that keeps you coming back day after day to tick more items off your mental to-do list. I say tha...

Whether it's a game about to be delisted from a digital marketplace or one that's about to leave Steam Early Access and bump up its price, I always appreciate a little advance notice. The automated factory builder Factorio is nearing full r...

What is the 'truth', these days? As we slip further into niche news outlets, right wing or liberal, the truth is becoming less about the facts and more about the emotional response. Opinions are being published and weaponised on a daily bas...