What are we all playing this weekend?

This week the team are not playing Crimson Desert, but they are playing Thomas and Friends, Pokopia, and 9 Kings.

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"As soon as it fired up, he'd get up and go to lunch": How Age of Empires' developers tested mission difficulty

To test the difficulty of Age of Empires' scenarios, Ensemble Studios' boss would boot up a level and go to lunch to see if the AI would beat him.

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Colossal Order's biggest mistake working on Cities: Skylines 2? Banking on not-quite-ready Unity features

"Our mistake was to bank on something that was not yet proven, and that was a huge hindrance throughout the development of Cities: Skylines 2."

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Vampire Crawlers invites you to an average Italian countryside with an April release date

The roguelike deckbuilder keeps up the chaos from its predecessor next month.

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"The sheer scale is daunting": These Baldur's Gate 3 modders are remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign, with a first demo already out - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/baldurs-gate-3-mod-baldurs-gate-1-custom-campaign-deathbringers-reign #Strategy:Turn-BasedStrategy #MultiplayerCooperative #MultiplayerCompetitive #InterplayEntertainment #Birdview/Isometric #Baldur'sGateIII #ActionAdventure #LarianStudios #XboxSeriesX/S #Baldur'sGate #SinglePlayer #Fullproduct #Interplay
"The sheer scale is daunting": These Baldur's Gate 3 modders are remaking the entirety of Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign, with a first demo already out

A team of Baldur's Gate 3 modders going by Deathbringer's Reign are working on remaking Baldur's Gate 1 as a custom campaign.

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The very Rimwold-esque Going Medieval hits 1.0 today after almost five years of early access

A big launch comes with a big load of additions, tweaks, and things to do.

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The best extraction shooters on PC or: how I learned there are other games like Arc Raiders

If you've dipped your toe into the water with Arc Raiders you might be looking some of the best extraction shooters on PC.

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The latest Whiskerwood update finally lets you stop hungry mice from raiding your food warehouses – though they might riot over it

Whiskerwood patch 21 lets you ban mice from eating in the warehouse and allows rafts to pass under bridges.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is adding a bulldozing new class, while fellow spinoff Rogue Core gets an early access release date - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-is-adding-a-bulldozing-new-class-while-fellow-spinoff-rogue-core-gets-an-early-access-release-date #DeepRockGalactic:RogueCore #DeepRockGalactic:Survivor #MultiplayerCooperative #MultiplayerCompetitive #GhostShipPublishing #Shooter:FirstPerson #Birdview/Isometric #Shooter:RPGShooter #Survival&Crafting; #PC
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is adding a bulldozing new class, while fellow spinoff Rogue Core gets an early access release date

DRG spinoffs Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Deep Rock Galactic Rogue Core are getting a new playable class and an early access release date, respectively.

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"Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit

Valve have gone public with their legal fight against the New York attorney general over whether lootbox mechanics qualify as gambling.

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