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Seattle doesn't do Pride lightly. In 2019, Thrillist included the Emerald City's celebrations on their list of best Pride parades in America according to drag queens. Seattle was also mentioned in Pride.com's list of eight of the best Pride celebrations in the U.S., coming in at number seven. Additionally, an NBC study found that Seattle has the highest rate of female-identifying, same-sex married couples. Jenny Durkan, the city's first lesbian...

Galactic Civilizations 4 wants to mix Stellaris with Civilization in epic galaxies Galactic Civilizations has always been a staple in the pantheon of 4x games, offering a niche, almost indie alternative to the likes of Civilization and others of its era. In many respects, it is quite literally Civilization-in-space, but as turn-based strategy has evolved, so has ‘GalCivs’’ place in the cosmos. Galactic Civilization III was released back in 2015, although it’s been getting DLC support ri...

A Stargate strategy game is coming from the makers of Phantom Doctrine I have always thought Firaxis’ XCOM reboot would have made a good template for a Stargate game. I even once interviewed Ananda Gupta about it during his tenure as lead designer on XCOM’s Enemy Within expansion. Along with Star Wars, Stargate is one of my earliest and formative sci-fi loves, but it’s a franchise that’s had a poor games record. Today’s announcement of a Stargate strategy game might change that. Sta...

Publisher Slitherines Home of Wargamers 2021 Live+ event goes live later today, treating strategy fans to a set of gameplay reveals, new details, and discussions about its upcoming games. 4X strategy title Distant Worlds 2 will have a segment dedicated to it, during which we can get a better look at some of its main features, alongside pirates and independent worlds. Erik Rutins, Matrix Games CEO and one of the main creators of Distant Worlds 2, will walk viewers through a gameplay session ...

Watch a live demo of upcoming space 4X game Distant Worlds 2 in action We were quite excited when Distant Worlds 2 was formally announced earlier this year. The original Distant Worlds is a sci-fi grand strategy game that – while rough and ready – has some truly innovative ideas that are seldom seen in these kinds of epic space 4X games. The sequel is due out later this year, but while we wait to hear more you can at least satisfy your curiosity with some live gameplay. During publisher S...

Slitherine announces a plethora of new wargames at ‘Home of Wargamers 2021’ Its a damn good time to be a strategy gamer Tristan covers human-centric artificial intelligence advances, politics, queer stuff, cannabis, and gaming. Pronouns: He/him Tristan covers human-centric artificial intelligence advances, politics, queer stuff, cannabis, and gaming. Pronouns: He/him It’s a great day...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]   Epsom, May 11th. Home Of Wargames Live+, Slitherine’s main event of 2021, set the stage for some serious announcements. Four games have been revealed today on Slitherine’s Twitch channel, four titles that will definitely set the pace of the Company’s future months.  "Slitherine is currently investing in more than 15 unannounce...

Distant Worlds Vinyl Albums Appear in the US and Canada Each of the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy vinyl LPs costs $34.99. They also cover all past performances. So people could get Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy, Distant Worlds II: More Music from Final Fantasy, Distant Worlds III: More Music from Final Fantasy, and Distant Worlds IV: More Music from Final Fantasy. Each one has a record with matching slipcover. So the original album is black, the second is white, the thi...

The new tutorials are actually good First things first: Many moons ago, I wrote a big, long getting-started guide. Much of what I wrote in there is still useful, but the good news is that Elite now features a perfectly acceptable series of tutorials. It also starts players out in a tiny little estuary of star systems, a safe place to get your bearings that keeps high-level players from messing with you. Plus, every ship now comes standard with an autopilot system for both takeoff and landing. ...