Simulator News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

If you’ve been eyeing to dive into the eerie adventure of Little Nightmares, now might be the time to do so. The game’s price has taken a nosedive, dropping from $8.99 to a mere $5.99 on the Play Store. Want to know more about the Little Nightmares price drop? Keep reading!

You’re about to build through Canadian landscapes with Construction Simulator 4, so put on your hard hat. It’s up for pre-registration on Google Play now, and its release date is set for May 28th, 2024.

Since its launch into early access, Manor Lords has taken the simulation game scene by storm, with players absolutely relishing this new city-building experience.

Tennis games have been around for forever. Atari’s table tennis game Pong, for example, dates back all the way to the first video games of all time in the 70s. But we’ve come a long way since then. In fact, we’ve come a long way with the TopSpin franchise, too. Twenty years later, the title (which started out on the first Xbox consoles) is back on the next-gen consoles. And, oh boy, it’s a huge, positive leap forward. Tennis simulation has never felt so real as it does with Hangar 13’s TopSpin 2k25.

Genre-bending game and installation creators, Blast Theory are bringing back the beloved original Can You See Me Now?

Microsoft's Xbox summer showcase in June will reportedly include a hefty post-show segment on the next and currently untitled Call Of Duty, alongside release dates for such first-party headliners as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Avowed and Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. As rumoured in April, they're also apparently going to show off new Gears Of War game. Nice to see the COG and Locust still getting work.

Rusty’s Retirement is an idle farming simulator that does the work for you — while you work. The game, which was released on April 26 by Mister Morris Games, sits at the bottom of your computer screen and basically runs itself; simply plant some seeds and Rusty and a team of cute robot pals will get to work turning the crops into biofuel, which can be reinvested in your ever-expanding farm.

There’s a fresh beat in town! It’s American Rapper, a rapper simulator game by Oneteam Studio and Mateusz Wos. Whether you’re in line for coffee or chilling at home, your chance to live the rap star dream is now packed as a game.

One dedicated fan of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has added two haptic feedback suits that simulate real pain to their already $15,000 mass immersion setup.

There isn’t another game series more loaded with pop culture references than Goat Simulator. Pilgor, the crazy, ragdoll-tossed, licking protagonist of the series has been getting up to endlessly stupid hijinks for 10 years, and what started as a daft premise built from a game jam idea has now spawned a decade of insanity, spoofing almost every major video game along the way such as Skyrim, Dead Island and even P.T.

The SkyrimVR streamer who previously spent $15,000 on the "most immersive" virtual reality setup possible has once again upgraded their rig with a second haptic suit that converts in-game damage into real-life pain.

Sea of Thieves is a game that really only works with a group of friends. Rare’s live-service pirate simulator is one of the best co-op games available today, allowing you to put together a swashbuckling crew to take to the high seas, raid rival ships, and hunt for treasure. Thankfully, you don’t need to be on the same system to put together such a crew. Here’s everything you need to know about Sea of Thieves’ cross-platform support.

Daeri Soft’s latest RPG, Crystal Knights, has officially hit Android and iOS globally. It’s a real-time online idle RPG that’s free to play. Daeri Soft is known for other mobile titles like the simulation game, Cat Garden – Food Party Tycoon, and another RPG The Witch’s Knight.

Private Division has finally unveiled the first trailer for Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game.

A few hours ago, Private Division and Wētā Workshop finally shared the first trailer and gameplay details for Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings game.

We finally have the first full trailer for Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game, an upcoming single-player life simulation set in the Middle-earth universe inspired by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Codemasters is making some big changes to physics in F1 24 in what they are calling the series' most comprehensive update yet.

Private Division has announced its Hobbit life simulator Tales of the Shire will release for PS5 later this year. Confirmed in an all-new reveal trailer viewable above, it matches stylised visuals with simulation mechanics like home decoration, friendship making, and exploration.

PowerWash Simulator has attracted more than 12 million players since its release.

The first video game console I ever owned was an original Xbox that came bundled with two games: NCAA Football 2005 and Top Spin. My appreciation for both Madden and tennis games can be traced back to those being two of my first-ever console gaming experiences.

The Voice of the Galaxy brings exciting news and updates to Honkai Star Rail! Version 2.3 introduces the Developer Radio, a massive overhaul to the Simulated Universe.

Private Division revealed a new game set in the Middle-earth universe called Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game. The title, developed by Wētā Workshop Game Studio, is a cozy life simulator set within the world of the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Tales of the Shire has been officially revealed by Private Division and Wētā Workshop, with the game adapting the Lord of the Rings IP to a cosy life simulator. In the game, you are a Hobbit living in Bywater, where you will make friends, go fishing, visiting the shops, and working towards throwing the Bywater Festival.

Teapot Games has just launched AeroMayhem PvP: Air Combat Ace on Android. It’s an air combat simulation where you fly a fighter jet and take on enemies across vast maps. Based in India, Teapot Games has published other air combat titles like War Dogs: Air Combat Flight S and Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator.

The director of upcoming Sims competitor Life By You says life sims are "the most complex" RPGs and crafting games ever made.  

In a world where so many games send you on missions with tense action and high stakes, sometimes it’s nice to just sit back and relax a bit. That’s where the cozy genre comes in with calming exploration, crafting, and decorating that give you a sense of purpose without all of the stress that comes from more action-oriented games.

Dwarf Fortress is many things. Most fans of PC gaming know it as a byzantine simulation of a colony of dwarves. Look closer, however, and you’ll also find that it’s a byzantine simulation of geologic forces, weather systems, and tidal movements; language, psychology, and poetry; medieval combat, of course, and even siegecraft. But the reason that I love the game so much is that it also simulates its own history, with tales of epic heroes and powerful artifacts strewn all across its procedurally generated digital worlds. Starting Wednesday, those histories will be more accessible than ever before.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, the park management sim that turned us all into greedy, and occasionally sadistic capitalists, is currently on sale for its lowest price ever on Steam. Normally $19.99, this title is discounted to just $4.99 through April 22 to celebrate the game’s 25th anniversary.

15 years after it first entered development - and nine years after it first hit Early Access - the legendary roguelike RPG Caves of Qud is finally set to launch in 2024. After announcing that news last year, the devs at Freehold Games have now provided a roadmap to launch.

Miniclip has bought UK developer FuturLab for an undisclosed sum.

If you’re into factory simulation games, you’ve likely given Builderment a try at least once. Now, we have its kin dropping on Android, Builderment Idle. It’s free to play and is now up for grabs on the Play Store.

In their small office tucked away in Quebec City, Canada, IGN sat down with three of Yellow Brick Games’ technical gurus: CTO Louis Tremblay, VFX Lead Raphaelle Dubois-Beauchamp, and Game Director and Co-Founder Frederic St-Laurent. Together we discussed the unique aspects of their upcoming game, Eternal Strands, which makes impressive use of Unreal Engine 5’s capabilities.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Frost Mage guide writer, Dorovon, offers an early review of the Spellslinger Mage Hero Talents that truly embraces what it means to be a Frost Mage by enhancing the the core rotation rather than disrupting it by trying to mix in too much Arcane.

As we head deeper into 2024, the traditional “E3” season (of course, E3 is dead now, but you catch my drift) for gaming announcements and showcases is coming up fast. In recent days we’ve begun to hear some murmurings about Microsoft’s big 2024 showcase, with Gears 6 reportedly being there, and now a few more potential details may have filtered out.

If you think you have a good handle on the kind of games Devolver Digital publishes by now, you’re in for a surprise. The company’s latest game, The Crush House, is unlike anything you’ve ever played.

Netflix’s TV adaptation of the novel The Three-Body Problem makes some important changes to its source material. Characters in Cixin Liu’s original book are reimagined and split into others. Threads from later books in Liu’s trilogy, known as Remembrance of Earth’s Past, are brought forward into the narrative. And thankfully, the virtual reality video game that’s played in 3 Body Problem is noticeably different to how it’s described in the book version.

Palworld borrowed heavily from other games to become the monster-taming giant that it is today, and now, the studio is ripping off the oldest corporate April Fools Day joke in the video game world: pretending to make a dating simulator.

Welcome to the 2024 edition of Gematsu‘s annual April Fools’ Day games industry jokes and gags roundup, featuring a new Goddess of Victory: NIKKE shooter game, Palworld dating simulation game, a 16-bit edition of Kanon, and more.

Sony doesn’t consider Gran Turismo 7 to be a live service game, but developer Polyphony Digital treats it like it is one. The game goes from strength-to-strength with each new update, and while v1.44 is on the smaller side by the series’ standards, it adds more complimentary content to an already stacked simulation racer.

This is definitely a throwback consideting that the DSi was released back in 2008 in Japan and then 2009 in the US. During the lifespan of the Nintendo DS, DSi, and 3DS which all released at different times they released many different limited addition versions of the handheld console. One of these limited addition DSi consoles was a McDonald’s branded one that is super rare.

Dragon's Dogma 2director Hideaki Itsuno has shared that the game's most devastating feature was being considered as early as the series' 2012 original.

Say “sul sul!” to your new most-anticipated movie, as beloved gaming franchise The Sims is set to make a cinematic expansion. The zany life simulation game will be adapted into a feature-length film, following suit with recent video game adaptations like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and television’s The Last of Us.

Fancy playing shrink for a day? You might want to check out Psychiatrist Simulator 2 by the indie developer Eathrabaria. A bit of a crazy game, it follows in the footsteps of Psychiatrist Simulator, the prequel, where you interact with virtual patients to understand their complex mental states and figure out the best treatment plans.

Bunny Haven – Cute Café is surely the cutest game dropping on Android this month! Just as you’re starting to munch on those Easter chocolates, Runaway dropped this cosy garden fun simulation to make the holiday even better.

Its no secret that while Dragon's Dogma 2 is great, performance has been an issue from the jump – particularly on PC. There's a reason for it, Capcom has explained NPCs are individually simulated by your CPU, which makes this game incredibly dependent on your processor. Play the game for an hour or so and you'll realize how much the game benefits from this approach, but unless you have a top-end CPU paired with the best RAM you can muster, you're going to have a rough time with the frame rate, especially in cities.

Rarely a day passes without a deluge of discounts on the PS Store these days, and another 50 or so offers have been unloaded on to the storefront ahead of the weekend. These discounts will be valid until 27th March, so you’ve got a few days to decide what takes your fancy and why. Please note, these deals are exclusive to PS Plus subscribers.

ISRO has achieved a significant milestone with the successful launch and landing of Pushpak viman, an SUV-sized winged rocket often dubbed as the "Swadeshi space shuttle." The test, conducted in Karnataka, saw Pushpak viman make a precise landing on a runway after being released from an Air Force helicopter. This accomplishment marks a major stride in India's endeavor to enter the reusable rocket segment, signaling a promising advancement in the country's space exploration efforts.

It appears the movie industry is coming for every gaming IP it can get its hands on at the moment because it has been confirmed EA's life simulator series The Sims will be turned into a film. Margot Robbie's production firm is attached, and the film will be produced and co-written by Kate Herron of Loki fame. EA serves in a «creative and producing capacity».

OpenAI's ChatGPT Store is facing a deluge of spam and copyright concerns. The marketplace, designed for custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, is grappling with an influx of peculiar and potentially copyright-infringing bots, indicating lax moderation efforts.

Even after all these years, the sheer processing power of your average smartphone can still surprise us. 

It’s time to brush up on your Simlish. The Sims movie is in the works – and it’s got a creative dream team behind it.

EA’s long-running life simulation series The Sims is being adapted into a movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Honkai: Star Rail Version 2.1, “Into the Yawning Chasm,” is primed for launch. This episode of Voice of the Galaxy episode brings a wave of optimizations designed to enhance your gameplay experience, making it more straightforward to manage your inventory, conquer challenges, and delve deeper into the Simulated Universe.

It should be no surprise: Stardew Valley, despite being released in 2016, is still wildly popular. In fact, it’s more popular than ever. Following the Stardew Valley 1.6 update published yesterday, the farm-and-life simulator hit a peak Steam concurrent player count of 147,612 — that’s more than double the peak concurrent players at the game’s launch in 2016. Stardew Valley’s previous Steam record was just under 100,000 players after the 1.5 update launched in late 2020, according to SteamDB. Stardew Valley is the eighth most played game on Steam at the time of writing, just a few thousand players below Grand Theft Auto 5.

There’s no shortage of stuff to purchase with real money in Honkai: Star Rail. As a gacha game, much of the best gear is hidden behind a paywall, meaning you’ll need to crack open your wallet to get your hands on today’s most powerful items. That holds true for Light Cones, Honkai: Star Rail‘s form of weapons, but there are at least a few Light Cones you can access for free.

On paper, Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator seems like a great time. Leisurely picking up fares in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, Barcelona. Exploring and finding points of cultural interest, forming and customising your own taxi company — it all sounds like a relaxing experience, right? Wrong.

While we’re enormous fans of Train Sim World 4 and Dovetail’s entire railway simulation series, we’ve often criticised its overemphasis on British, American, and German routes. Fortunately, it looks like the release is poised to receive its first Japanese add-on, in the form of the Tadami Line, in-development at external studio Union Workshop.

Physics shooting sensation Squirrel with a Gun is gunning for PS5, with publisher Maximum Entertainment on deck to help developer Dee Dee Creations bring the viral title to consoles.

If you’re in the mood to wreak a little havoc and aren’t keen on playing the good guy for once, you might want to check out Monster Never Cry. This new F2P action-packed anti-hero RPG has just dropped on Android.

If you love playing racing games, we’ve spotted one of the best gaming deals for your needs. A racing wheel makes all the difference to feeling more immersed in everything from F1 games to traversing the world of SnowRunner or similar. Right now, you can buy the Logitech G920 Driving Force Racing Wheel and Floor Pedals for $230 at Amazon, meaning you save $70 or 23% off the regular price of $300. A great investment for the petrolhead in your life, here’s what you need to know before you hit the buy button. It’s a limited time deal so don’t count on it sticking around for long.

A new game based on the Dungeons & Dragons license blending different genres was announced today by Gameloft.

Google DeepMind has unveiled new research highlighting an AI agent that's able to carry out a swath of tasks in 3D games it hasn't seen before. The team has long been experimenting with AI models that can win in the likes of Go and chess, and even learn games without being told their rules. Now, for the first time, according to DeepMind, an AI agent has shown it's able to understand a wide range of gaming worlds and carry out tasks within them based on natural-language instructions.

AI models that play games go back decades, but they generally specialize in one game and always play to win. Google Deepmind researchers have a different goal with their latest creation: a model that learned to play multiple 3D games like a human, but also does its best to understand and act on your verbal instructions.

Have you checked out Modern Community yet? It’s a new laid-back simulation game by Magic Tavern that lets you breathe new life into an entire community just by crushing some pretty challenging puzzles. Trust me, if city-building and puzzle-solving had a baby, it would be this game.

If you love cats and cooking games, then you should definitely try out Cat Cooking Bar, the food game. It’s a new culinary hot spot in Android town with cosy spots and cute cats serving food. You can be one of them and cook, serve and travel to your customers.

The UKIE Video Game Awards 2024 took place last night, with Sad Owl Studios' Viewfinder taking home UK Game of the Year alongside best console game.

IPACS, the premier games simulation specialist, extends a warm invitation to all aspiring pilots and co-pilots alike. Immerse yourself in aerial adventure of Aerofly FS Flight Simulator, available for iOS, Android devices, and PC via Steam. Praised by players and critics, Aerofly FS continuously evolves with fresh content and innovative features. Take the helm of airliners, helicopters, fighters, gliders, and historical aircrafts within a breathtaking environment boasting meticulously crafted cockpits and awe-inspiring scenery.

In strangely fascinating news, the release of long-in-development piracy simulator Skull and Bones has caused a significant, sustained spike in the number of players revisiting Ubisoft's earlier effort, the corsair-filled Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

Sony has quietly dropped a pretty tempting sale on the PS Store this weekend, with over 100 games plunging to seriously low prices – especially if you’re a PS Plus subscriber. The deals expand to some pretty major PS5 and PS4 games, including The Crew Motorfest for £34.99/$34.99 and Need for Speed Unbound for just £6.99/$6.99.

Indie developer Big Blue Sky Games has announced its debut title, Merchants of Rosewall, a shopkeeper simulator that takes place in an immersive high-fantasy world. In MoR, players are tasked with managing their own customizable shop while uncovering the secrets of a majestic city in which the game takes place.

This upcoming shopkeeping simulator takes the fantasy setting of Baldur's Gate 3 and combines it with the relaxing life sim elements of Stardew Valley.

Microsoft revealed on on Xbox Wire all of the Xbox Game Pass catalog additions we can expect between today and March 19. Headliners include Control Ultimate Edition, the complete version of the game Remedy Entertainment made before Alan Wake 2, and MLB The Show 24, a game made by a PlayStation-owned studio.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has ditched its predecessor's more structured layout, opting for a beautiful open world that really lets you soak in the beauty of the planet. To ensure players don't get lost and are able to experience everything Rebirth's open world has to offer, Square Enix thought it would be best to give players a helpful guide in the form of knowledge hunter and slightly irritating computer whizz-kid Chadley.

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Valve's Steam digital platform continues to grow in popularity. Just a couple of months ago, we reported that the store had set a new record with 33.6 million concurrent users.

Final Fantasy 7 and its compilation media have introduced some of my favorite video game characters. There’s Cloud Strife, the emotionally cagey but endlessly awkward dude who just wants to be cool. His childhood friend, a sullen-eyed Tifa, brings a sense of kindness and warmth to the most dire of situations. Hell, even the villains are charming in their own ways. I wouldn’t want to be a generic Shinra lapdog, but maybe I’d go and be one for Rufus, whose cutting-edge sense of style somehow makes me forget he’s the CEO of an evil company.

NASA and Nikon have joined forces in a groundbreaking collaboration to develop a specialized camera for capturing the wonders of the lunar surface during the upcoming Artemis mission. The agreement, outlined in a Space Act Agreement, aims to equip astronauts with a handheld camera capable of withstanding the harsh conditions of the Moon's South Pole region, where they will conduct scientific research and exploration.