Ever since Elite: Dangerous went to Kickstarter in 2012, fans have been asking for the ability to land on, and explore, planets. With the announcement of Elite Dangerous: Horizons fans will be getting just such a feature, along with another full season of major gameplay expansions. The Planetary Landings expansion will only include airless, rocky, […]
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Around The Web – DCS, Arma 3, DayZ, Elite: Dangerous, and Star Citizen Updates
It’s finally Friday! Hopefully that means most of you get to enjoy a weekend of gaming, or, at least, a couple days of not working. Or maybe you’re using the days off to get Windows 10 up and running on your machine? Let us know how it goes and best of luck! DCS Weekend Flash […]
What is a Sim Game?
A few days ago I was talking about games and genres with some friends. About half of my buddies fell closer to, if not right into, the “hardcore” (I hate the hardcore/casual labels – forgive me for using them here, it just makes the conversation easier to talk about) end of the gamer spectrum. A […]
Spotlight – Bohemia Interactive
Bohemia Interactive, founded in 1999, made its way onto the world stage in 2001 with Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. Ten years later the company re-released the game, rebranding it under its popular ARMA franchise. Since 2001, ARMA has evolved into a household name for combat sim enthusiasts. In 2012, Dean Hall created the DayZ […]
No Man’s Sky – The Economy
No Man’s Sky is an upcoming space exploration and survival sim developed by Hello Games, the creators of the Joe Danger series. Even though No Man’s Sky was premiered at the 2013 VGX awards and went on to steal the show at E3 in 2014, the game has still managed to stay relatively low key. […]
Huge Star Citizen Leak Shows The Future
After a partial URL was mistakenly shown in a screenshot, resourceful users were able to guess the remaining portion of the address and then piggy back onto a torrent, which contained a whopping 48GB’s of unreleased Star Citizen assets. The hijacked content was then assembled by players with a sound knowledge of CryEngine, and quickly […]
Sid Meier’s Starship for iOS: space is flat!
Sid Meier’s Starship for iOS: space is flat! I used to love the Civilization series of games from Sid Meier, on both PC and iOS, so I was really looking forward to this title. If you don’t know the Civilisation series, they are turn-based ‘4X’ (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) strategy games which focus on different periods […]
Star Citizen – Update 1.1.2 Now Live
The hardworking devs over at Cloud Imperium Games have released update 1.1.2 for the massively popular Star Citizen. Today’s update includes a lot of changes to many of the .pak files, so the download will be big – 20.8GB big. You can check out the full patch notes at the end of the post, but […]
Kerbal Space Program – Launching April 27
Developer Squad has announced that Kerbal Space Program (KSP) will be leaving beta and launching version 1.0 in just under a week. The popular space sim/sandbox, Kerbal Space Program (KSP), has been in public development since 2011, and after a successful release on Steam’s early access program, which helped to create a legion of fans, […]
Quick look: Upcoming Into The Stars Game
2015 is shaping up to be a great year for fans who prefer to spend their gaming time in outer space. Highly anticipated games such as No Man’s Sky and Star Citizen are just a couple of the more well-known space forays on the horizon, but they are by no means the only exciting content […]