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#DRIVE Rally takes the casual driving / drifting game #DRIVE to a new level. #DRIVE Rally features multiple distinct themes like snow, desert and forest with multiple tracks and many paths through each. It’s a delightful casual rally game that perfectly melds rally racing, accessible racing simulation and drifting into a neat package with a smooth FPS bow on-top. The game is only in early access, so it gets better from here but what’s available now, in its current form, while not perfect yet, is a beautiful time waster that achieves what it sets out to do already. Let’s dig into it. The Concept #DRIVE Rally features two modes currently: championship and quick race. These are Rally time trials so you’re always alone (unless you have ghost mode on). In championship you earn cash and car parts but drive a fixed vehicle each race (that’s aligned to the map). In…

On Twitter, Hi-Rez CEO Stewart Chisam, announced a restructuring effort of Hi-Rez Studios: Hi-Rez is making internal changes to ensure SMITE 2’s long-term success, which includes layoffs mainly in marketing, publishing, and game development teams focused on cosmetic content. The company is shifting focus to gameplay development for SMITE 2, prioritizing new modes and gods. Decisions like these are very difficult, but it does show that it looks like Hi-Rez is going all in on SMITE 2. To that effect, we’ve recently launched our revamped SMITE 2 Tier List and will be refocusing all of our SMITE efforts towards SMITE 2 to align with Hi-Rez’s roadmap and to help support a studio not only local to our parent company, but a studio that has delighted our readers for the last 5+ years with SMITE 1. We will continue to update our SMITE 1 tier list as well, as long as…

There was not a game released yet that can challenge Anno in its propensity for balancing districts until the release of Frostpunk 2. Frostpunk 1 is about surviving, Frostpunk 2 is about thriving in the frozen wasteland. It’s a bit of a different take than the first game, which I’d compare to a more visual novel-esq experience. The entire city was contained within the original crater and, revisiting the city 30 years later, the original main character passes and you, the new main character as Steward, take over. Your task is to expand the city outside of the crater, establish a city council and make a decision to embrace or conquer the cold. Before being thrown into the mix, you visit a failed generator where you survive the first whiteout at a Dreadnaught. This tutorial serves as a smaller, easier experience before jumping into the main game. A Perfect City…