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CK2 Dev Diary #86 - Character View Redux

Greetings!

Today I’d like to show off the new Character View, which we affectionately refer to as the ‘Redux’ version. The old Character View, despite having been redone several times already, was still plagued by not having enough space for the various elements (traits, in particular) and...

Stellaris Dev Diary #118 - Niven Post-Launch Support (part 3)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. As mentioned in Dev Diary #116, we're currently in an extended post-launch support period, and so there won't be any feature dev diaries coming for a while. Just as last week, today's dev diary will be another quick update...

EU4 - Development Diary - 05 of June 2018

Hello! Today we’ll talk about yet another system reworked in Dharma and another feature to make European presence in the rest of the world more interesting. Let’s start with the new feature.

So when we talked about the Charter Trade Company feature, a bunch of you wondered why in the name of...

CK2 Dev Diary #85 - Legacy of Legends

Greetings!

Today I’d like to present a feature that is specifically tailored towards the ones among you who truly enjoy breeding potent dynasties - Legendary Bloodlines!

Legendary Bloodlines are modifiers that are passed down the generations from one specific character, the Founder - they work...

Stellaris Dev Diary #117 - Niven Post-Launch Support (part 2)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. As mentioned in last week's dev diary, we're currently in an extended post-launch support period, and so there won't be any feature dev diaries coming for a while. Today's dev diary will just be a quick update about a...

EU4 - Development Diary - 29th of May 2018

Good day all and welcome to today's Dev Diary on the upcoming expansion Dharma and its accompanying 1.26 Mughals Update. Last week we talked about the changes to Estates and made vague promises that we would make good on our commitment to further the content in the Mission...

Dev Diary 10: Curiosity by Boian Spasov from Haemimont Games

Hello there! With our Curiosity update on the horizon, it is time for a new dev diary exploring the new features added to the game. All features and content in the update are free for everyone and will be added to the game as soon as the update goes live.

New Domes...

Stellaris Dev Diary #116 - Niven Post-Launch Support

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary! This one is just a short update to let you know what's going on in the development team and what you can expect in the coming weeks and months. As we just released Distant Stars this week, we will now be entering into an extended...

HOI4 Dev Diary - Man the Guns and PdxCon

Hi everyone! We are now back from PdxCon which was an amazing experience. If any of you were there, thanks a lot for coming! I had a lot of fun and interesting conversations with HOI fans and we had a very cool challenge to as Poland inflict as much casualties as possible on Germany in 1939 in...

EU4 - Development Diary -22nd of May 2018

Good day all! Today the team is all back and hard at work following an exhausting yet wonderful PDXCon. Thanks to everyone out there who contributed to its success by your presence. With our upcoming expansion now announced we return to talk in detail about the features and changes coming in...

Cities: Skylines - Parklife Dev Diary #6: Introduction to Tourism

Greetings again, fellow city builders! I have great news today. As a part of free Parklife update Cities: Skylines will expand more into Tourism. In a nutshell this means that we want to give you a better understanding why and how tourists are coming to the City and which locations they visit...

CK2 Dev Diary #84 - Renovating Russia

Greetings!

Today we’re going back into the cartographer’s office to view the latest maps of the vast lands that lie just before the eternal steppes, where the Volga flows - the land of the proud Rus’. The Russian lands have always felt rather underdeveloped in CK2 compared to their size, even...

Stellaris Dev Diary #115 - 2.1 Anomaly Modding (Bonus)

Welcome to a brief unannounced surprise bonus dev diary!

PDXCon preparations are taking up most of our time, but with attendees getting some early hands-on time with the Distant Stars Story Pack, we figured we'd give the modders among you a glimpse of some of the under-the-hood-changes coming...

Cities: Skylines - Parklife Dev Diary #5: Modding and menu filtering

Hello everyone! We are again happy to announce some new modding features coming up alongside with Park Life expansion, all of which will be part of the free update.

Asset editor
Sub-meshes
Certain built-in buildings and vehicles have already made use of something called...

EU4 - Development Diary - 15th of May 2018

Hello! So today's Dev Diary will be covering the ways to enter the Subcontinent of India. We’ve added two mechanics to help you gobbling up all those new juicy provinces in India if you are coming from distant lands.

First is the new unique government that the true heirs of Timur the Lame can...

Cities: Skylines - Parklife Dev Diary #4: Maps and tree noise reduction

Introduction to maps and terrain props, tree noise reduction and new animals

Today's topic is one that we all must've been waiting for: New Maps.

We've designed 5 new maps to fit the theme of Parklife DLC which means the maps will have forests, uneven terrain, ruins and...

CK2 Dev Diary #83 - God Wills It!

Greetings!

PDXCon is soon upon us, and we hope to see you there! During the event we will reveal the name and theme of the Expansion we’re working on, and after PDXCon is over we’ll have plenty of Dev Diaries that will delve deep into the new expansion features. For now though we’d like to...

Stellaris Dev Diary #114 - Space Creatures, Strategic Resources and Experimental Subspace Navigation

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today, we're going to continue talking about the 2.1 'Niven' update accompanying the Distant Stars Story Pack. Everything mentioned in this dev diary is part of the free update, not the story pack.

Space Creature...

Cities: Skylines - Parklife Dev Diary #3: New policies and buildings

Introduction to Policies, Park Maintenance and New Buildings
Hello again and welcome back to our Dev Diary. Have you ever wondered what would Cities: Skylines be without policies, city services and buildings? Coincidently those are also the topics of our Dev Diary of the Day...

EU4 - Development Diary - 8th of May 2018

Hello and welcome!


This is the third and last development diary on what map and setup changes patch 1.26 for Europa Universalis IV will bring. This time we will turn our attention to the north and east. We will start by turning away from India for a bit and looking into what the situation was...

CK2 Dev Diary #82 - The Spring Cleaning Patch

Greetings!

Today we’ll have a short Dev Diary - we just want to tell you about the upcoming patch that’ll bring a bunch of bug fixes as well as a few other goodies. It will be released sometime next week.

In addition to bug fixes, we’ll roll out an updated Main Menu. The new menu is...

Stellaris Dev Diary #113 - New Anomalies, Systems and Leviathans

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today, we're going to continue talking about the Distant Stars Story Pack that will be accompanying the 2.1 'Niven' update, on the topic of exploration and new things to find in the galaxy. As with the previous dev diary...

Cities: Skylines - Parklife Dev Diary #2: Tours

Introduction to Tours
We're back, this time to give you guys a peek to another new paid feature: Tours.

Let's start our tour with a quick introduction to the two most important features under this topic: Walking Tours and Sightseeing Bus Tours which...

EU4 - Development Diary - 1st of May 2018

Hello everyone!

This week I have returned to tell you a bit more about the upcoming overhaul of the map of India and what it will mean for the northern parts of the subcontinent. These changes will be part of the 1.26 patch which is currently in development.

Northern India in...

Cities: Skylines: Parklife - Dev Diary #1: Park Areas

Introduction to Park Areas

Greetings everyone! The latest Cities: Skylines expansion called Parklife was announced 18th of April, 2018 and we couldn't be more excited because this time we got to take our cims for a amazing stroll in the many parks.

But doesn't Cities...