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Total War: Warhammer 3’s next DLC is brought to life with porridge, yoghurt and real bones

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Ogres, Orcs, and Khorne are all on the way in the upcoming expansion for strategy game Total War: Warhammer 3, and Creative Assembly have just released their latest dev vlog with a few more details on what to expect. There’s still no word on the exact title, although given the established naming convention (Shadows Of Change, Thrones Of Decay), I’m tentatively calling it “Sniffers Of Glue” in honour of the No Think, Only Krump faction selection.

You’ll find the vlog in its full glory below. What’s interesting about this one is that vlog mainstay director Rich Alridge has brought along some new faces: battle designer Josh King and audio director Chris Goldsmith. And, yes, so no-one can accuse me of burying the lede: that audio design involved the enthusiastic, deeply disgusting slurping of porridge and yoghurt, and the jangling of real bones. The source of the bones is not revealed.

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Cities: Skylines latest DLC came out this week, 18 months after its “final” DLC came out last year

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Cities: Skylines received its final piece of DLC last May, as developers Colossal Order shifted their focus to its sequel, Cities: Skylines 2. Eighteen months and the release of Cities: Skylines 2 later… Cities: Skylines 1 is getting new DLC again.

The “Mountain Village” creator pack add 45 new buildings designed to help you construct quaint and picturesque destinations.

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Vampire Survivors comes full-circle with Castlevania DLC expansion

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The world of Dracula and the Belmont family is approaching Vampire survivors. The newly announced downloadable content for the car shooter survival game, Ode to Castlevaniapromises a lot of new things: 20 characters, 40 weapons, an extra-large stage and over 30 music tracks. Developer Poncle said in his announcement post The new Vampire survivors The … Read more

Vampire Survivors to get its “biggest DLC” yet, an ode to Castlevania with a sprawling new map

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Vampire Survivors was our best game of 2022 and one of the best roguelikes, period. And over the years it’s received a slew of updates that make it a bit bigger and a bit better, but nothing that’s been mega substantial. That is, until today’s announcement that it’s getting an Ode To Castlevania expansion, classed by developers Poncle as the game’s biggest DLC yet. More characters, more weapons, a weapon selector, an enormous stage. I simply can’t wait to devour more packets of crisps as I play this.

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Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC – “we try to find a middle ground”

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Fire up the Steam page for Stellaris, one of my favourite space sims, and you will see 28 pieces of DLC, ranging from free character portraits to £35 expansion passes that span a bunch of species and story packs. Stablemate Europa Universalis 4 has 37 DLC packs under its banner, while Cities Skylines is streets ahead with a whopping 62. Paradox Interactive have long built their core game business around putative forever-projects that trail an enormous mantle of paid expansions. It’s seemingly this, as much as their institutional expertise with 4X, that justifies their commitment to grand strategy games, whose worlds and systems can be fleshed out for literal decades.

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