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Cities: Skylines Gets First Expansion – After Dark

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Cities: Skylines After Dark DLC

Cities: Skylines got its first major expansion pack today. The DLC for the popular city-building game is called After Dark and focuses on introducing a day and night system to the game. It will add an array of new game mechanics that publisher Paradox Interactive says will deeply change the way the game works. The DLC is available right now for PC, Mac, and Linux, but the best part is that the day and night system will be added automatically for all players, regardless of whether or not they purchase the Cities: Skylines After Dark DLC.

The After Dark DLC is focused on bringing the city to life at night. It introduces new challenges for players to manage a new set of needs for the populace at night. Your city’s residents will now not just go straight home after work, but will go out in search of entertainment and night-life. Night time will also raise your city’s criminal element (let’s face it – crime was never much of a challenge in Cities: Skylines). The DLC also expands on the tourism industry of your city and will require players to think up new strategies to deal with the changes that come with the night.

Some of the new features coming with Cities: Skylines After Dark include:

  • New commercial facilities such as bars and restaurants will be added. The game will also get some beach-front facilities such as small marina and fishing tours, as well as new high-rise and luxury hotels.
  • Commercial zones can now specialise in leisure activities. These areas will work as normal during the day, but will become especially active at night.
  • Traffic conditions will change at night. Some areas will be visibly quieter and many won’t be working at full efficiency.
  • Criminals will now be taken to jail from police stations.
  • Tons of new transportation features, such as taxis, cargo hubs for managing cargo trains, bus terminals, and a new huge international airport. There will also be bike lanes.

You can see the full patch notes on Paradox Interactive’s Forums.

Rhiannon likes video games and she likes writing, so she decided to combine them. As well as writing about video games, she also belts out the occasional science fiction or fantasy story, edits videos, and eats strawberry oreos. In that order.

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Sony Has a “Monopoly” on the High-End Japanese Gaming Market, According to a US Senator

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The never-ending saga surrounding Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has a new participant.  Today, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from the state of Washington, said some things about the subject that were hard to understand.

The senator, whose remarks were reported on by ResetEra, spoke at a Senate finance committee hearing on “the president’s 2023 Trade Policy Plan,” which we are sure was quite interesting.

Senator Cantwell said that she had been told that Sony “controls a monopoly of 98% of the high-end game market” despite the fact that “Japan’s government has allowed Sony to engage in blatant anti-competitive conduct through exclusive deals and payments to game publishers, establishing games that are among the most popular in Japan.”

This 98% statistic is highly deceptive because it ignores PC, Nintendo, and mobile games and instead refers to Sony’s adoption rate over Microsoft in Sony’s native country of Japan, a fact that shouldn’t surprise anyone who is even somewhat familiar with the video game business.

What can we do to rectify these problems and create a level playing field, she said of US Trade Representative Katherine Tai after charging Japan’s Federal Trade Commission with improperly failing to look into this purported “exclusionary conduct”?

It is absurd to claim that Sony has a monopoly on the Japanese video game market, as Luke Plunkett of Kotaku correctly points out, “because Sony doesn’t even have a 98% share of the market for the God of War series, a title they own, as Steam is getting 30% of every sale on PC.”

It goes without saying that we can’t expect elected officials to be experts in every field, but this is a visible step at a time when the ongoing attempt to buy the company is at a very important point.

Is it significant that Microsoft, along with Nintendo, maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington—Senator Cantwell’s district—or that Microsoft has given Cantwell more than $500,000 over the past two decades?  Let us leave that up to you.

 

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Eating trash, Pizza Possum destroys the PS5

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Pizza Possum is an arcade action game in which you, a possum, attempt to consume as much trash as you can without being discovered.  It is a web-based sequel to the anarchy simulator Untitled Goose Game.It will eventually be available on the PS5.

We couldn’t help but notice that the possum in the title doesn’t look like the cute Australian possum that comes out at night to visit people.On the other hand, it looks like the horrible North American opossums are the ones that will attack trash cans and cause general chaos.Even though we think the second choice was better in terms of theme, we prefer the first one and are happy to explain why.

Your thoughts on Pizza Possum?  Does it possess the necessary mass appeal to successfully skitter along the back fenceline while setting the dog off in the process?

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The Mercenaries, a free piece of DLC for Resident Evil 4 Remake, launches on April 7

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Resident Evil 4 is now out, and the excellent remake can be bought right away.Even though you probably plan to play it all this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that The Mercenaries, Resident Evil’s almost-required challenge mode, will be available as free DLC on April 7.

The mode’s exact details are still unknown, but if it’s anything like previous versions, you can expect some pretty hard tasks to test your skills.

You’re stumped about something? If you are still debating whether to purchase Resident Evil 4 Remake, be sure to look at our exhaustive guide for the answer or our in-depth review. Are you spending this weekend playing Resident Evil 4? Are you anticipating The Mercenaries?

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