Cities: Skylines and Farming Simulator 19 Would you rather establish and manage a bustling city or run a productive farm? Many of us have more time on our hands than usual while we’re stuck at home, and sim games are one surefire way to pass it with a vengeance. It’s one thing to glance outside for a moment and realize the sun has suddenly set while you were absorbed in a minutia-filled virtual world....

Monopoly GO’sPod Pursuit tournament is making another grand return for the first time since June. Like usual, you’ll find alist of dice, stickers, and cash to claim, alongside power-ups to help you make more money for your landmarks upgrades. Here’s the complete list of Pod Pursuit rewards. All Monopoly GO Pod Pursuit tournament rewards and milestones Today’s version of the Pod Pursuit tournament has a standard 30-tier reward list and lasts 24 hours, ending on September 10....

This is going to be awesome Campo Santois a new San Francisco-based studio formed by talented people you’ve hopefully heard of before: Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin ofThe Walking Deadand the stellarIdle Thumbspodcast; Nels Anderson ofMark of the Ninja; and Olly Moss ofa bunch of artI want to buy. If not, you ought to go play their respective games. We’ll wait. “So why are we doing this? To be honest, it’s because we think we’ve found the right group of people to make the first reason not just worth enduring but actually thrilling,” writes Vanaman....

The parties have reached a nearly $26,000 settlement A former Nintendo game tester has agreed to a settlement with Nintendo and contracting agency Aston Carter. ViaPolygon, Aston Carter will take liability and pay $25,910 in back pay, damages, and interest, according to thedocuments. The bilateral settlement agreement also entails an additional action. Nintendo must post notice, in email and on-site at its office, informing workers of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act....

You go, Luigi If it’s a Nintendo mascot game that hasn’t bombed, odds are it’s evergreen. It’s theexpected stateof things. It’s why so many first-party games are not discounted for years, and a true testament to the character factory approach that is Nintendo. Where there’s mascots, there’s merch and other opportunities. But it also, naturally, impacts Switch 2021 game sales. In addition to providinga new “top 10” list of best-selling games on Switch to date, Nintendo also,in a separate document, outlined a few extra details for games too new to be on the list; or areclose enoughthat are still selling well....

Job security = Happy employees The videogames industry is cutthroat. We no longer bat an eyelash whenever a publisher shuts down an underperforming studio or lays off a huge chunk of a game’s development staff before the game ever touches a store shelf. It’s just the nature of business, we think. The biggest exception to this trend is Nintendo, which to the best of my knowledge has not had any significant, non-voluntary staff reduction in the past three decades....

A collector’s item It looks likeRodea: The Sky Soldierwill be the Wii’s swan song. Today, NIS America confirmed first edition copies of the Wii U version will come equipped with the original Wii prototype. The aerial action game was announced for Wii in 2010, but never saw a release. Instead, the project was reworked as a 3DS and Wii U title, which is now planned for an autumn launch. Rodea: The Sky Soldiercomes fromSonicprogrammer Yuji Naka’s independent studio Prope....

Coming to GOG Galaxy last this year No Man’s Sky Nextlaunched yesterday and brought a pretty substantial amount of content with it. Any of the new features could be a selling point to a specific person, but the inclusion of a fully fleshed out cooperative mode was easily the biggest addition to the game. Sadly, if you bought the game on GOG.com to avoid any of the DRM associated with Steam, you’ll likely have noticed that multiplayer option is entirely absent....

News happens in Japan, or so my RSS reader leads me to believe. The problem is, it’s not always headline-grabbing news. Sometimes it’s squid heads for Street Fighter Online or an XNA conference. So it’s not really worthwhile to make each story into its own post, but combined together they’re enough for a Japanese version ofScraps. So, let’s get into the highlights of what the Japanese sites have to offer:...

Check out the latest cinematic trailer too TheElder Scrolls Onlineis officially available today for the masses on the PC and Mac. To celebrate, Bethesda has released another badass cinematic trailer, titled The Siege. Along with this trailer comes a neat little infographic Bethesda put together. Highlights include that 5 million people registered for the ESO beta, there’s over 40 million weapon variations, there’s so many character variations that the number can’t even fit on the infographic, and that it would take 32 hours to read the over 2,000 books in the game....

If you did not attend PAX or the opening keynote last year, you may have heard word of how Penny Arcade rock stars Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik came out on stage — to the tune of a little song you might know about getting your hustle on. It was the ideal way to work up the crowd (at least, until they rolledUwe Boll himselfout on stage, which worked everyone up in an entirely different type of way)....

50 Shades of Developers It looks like I finally found out where I will be spending 100% of my time at PAX: theIndie Megabooth. Last year’s Megabooth hadover 20 games, which is now a relative pittance. What if you took that number, multiplied it by three, and then added a few more just for good measure? Well, then you’d the PAX East 2013 Indie Megabooth, with “62+” games from 50 developers....

::Extremely Muttley laugh:: Muttleyis an all-time best-dog in cartoons, and now it seems like everyone is ready to embrace this new good boy in Pokemon. Following a viral campaign from The Pokemon Company advertising that something was going to happen on October 25, we just got a new Pokemon reveal:in the style of a found footage video. Yep, it’s a new Pokemon dog. Thanks to some post-video info dumps, we know that it’s a ghost-type PokemonnamedGreavard, and that it seems to resemble a design that’s a cross betweenLitwickand a dog....