Julian Benson

Rogue Carrier is the new colony builder from Hooded Horse. It's both a real-time strategy game and a roguelike, where you balance crew morale and kill squids.

The team shares what they're playing this weekend. Some are taking to the high seas in Assassin's Creed, others heading to Frosthaven's icy northlands.

The best of this week's writing about games (and other things) from around the internet. Delight in glow worms mating, waist high walls, and water features.

Visual novel strategy game Suzerain is getting two new DLCs and a turn-based strategy game spinoff.

With a Saudi Arabia-backed buyout of EA looming, a Sims developer says they would "fight" any push to reduce the game's values of diversity and inclusion.

In Suzerain Stories: The Neutral Lens, you run a news room and choose how to report the stories that break in the world. And you see the consequences play out.

The team share what they're planning on playing this weekend and Julian runs down his wedding (guest) prep schedule.

Boardgame Frosthaven's digital adaptation has negative reviews saying it doesn't play how it should, but its developers say it's the players who are wrong.

The Sims now has a competitor in Paralives and the social simulation is already doing something that EA's game can't.

Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand is a clever spin-off of the World War 2 RTS game. All of the old mechanics have been spun into a new roguelite shape.