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Gaming Software

After Cities: Skylines II fiasco, developer realizes gamers are "less accepting" of flawed launches

Lesson learned is behind indefinite delay of Prison Architect 2

In brief: It is becoming increasingly common for high-budget video games to launch with mild or serious issues, often causing players to decide whether to purchase them on day one or wait. Cities: Skylines II was one of last year's most notorious cases. As the game's first anniversary approaches, publisher Paradox Interactive reflects on what it would have done differently.

Full story By Daniel Sims, October 15, 2024, 8:48 AM 9 comments

Gaming

Cities: Skylines II patch hits Steam to address performance issues

The first of several patches to improve performance

By Shawn Knight, October 27, 2023, 10:52 AM 20 comments

Gaming

Cities: Skylines 2 developer warns of potential performance issues at launch

"We have not achieved the benchmark we targeted"

By Rob Thubron, October 17, 2023, 6:23 AM 8 comments

Gaming

Cities: Skylines II launches October 24, but you'll need a beefy rig for the best experience

If you can dream it, you can build it

By Shawn Knight, June 14, 2023, 10:18 AM 9 comments

Gaming

Cities: Skylines II announced, launching later this year on PC and consoles

Build the city of your dreams

By Shawn Knight, March 6, 2023, 3:44 PM 10 comments

Gaming

Cities: Skylines is the Epic Game Store's latest limited-time freebie

The giveaway won't last much longer, though

By Cohen Coberly, December 17, 2020, 5:14 PM 21 comments

Gaming The Web

Cities: Skylines is free to try on Steam this weekend

It looks like my weekend is all booked up!

By Shawn Knight, February 8, 2018, 5:54 PM

Gaming The Web

Use this 'Cities: Skylines' mod to fly a plane over your cities

By Shawn Knight, March 27, 2015, 7:30 AM

Gaming

Cities: Skylines publisher isn't overly concerned by piracy

By Tim Schiesser, March 16, 2015, 11:15 AM 10 comments

Cities: Skylines Review: A modern take on the city building sim genre

FEATURE By Luke Plunkett, March 16, 2015, 12:15 AM TechSpot Gaming

There's a surprising amount of expectation for Colossal's attempt at fixing SimCity's mistakes. The good news first: If you play city-building games to, well, build cities, this is the best you can get. Never before have I felt like I could just walk up to an enormous tract of land, open up some tools and just... build whatever I wanted, however I wanted. Cities: Skylines is a gorgeous video game.