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Surviving Mars Next Expansion Space Race Announced
Paradox Interactive posted a new update yesterday for Surviving Mars, letting players know a new expansion is on the way with Space Race The expansion basically puts you in a sort of race against other countries and companies to become the best colonization organization on the red planet And you do so by any means[...]
Cities: Skylines is Available Now on the Nintendo Switch
Paradox Interactive and Tantalus Media used today's Nintendo Direct to announce that Cities: Skylines will be available on the Nintendo Switch The Switch version of Cities: Skylines will retail for an MSRP of $39.99 USD and will be Paradox's first foray into publishing for a portable platform. Originally created by Colossal Order, Cities: Skylines is a more modern take on[...]
Paradox Interactive Teams Up with Dottie Metcalf-Lindenberger for Surviving Mars
Haemimont Games and Paradox Interactive have teamed up with former NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger to make sci-fi city builder Surviving Mars as realistic as possible Metcalf-Lindenburger will take part in a stream on the Paradox Twitch channel on September 1st at 6pm The stream will show Metcalf playing Surviving Mars with Paradox's Susie McBeth while providing commentary on how[...]
Paradox Interactive is Bringing Stellaris to Consoles
Paradox Interactive announced just ahead of Gamescom this week that they're bringing grand strategy sci-fi game Stellaris to PS4 and Xbox One In order to make Stellaris: Console Edition the first ever grand strategy game to hit consoles, Paradox Development Studio teamed up with Tantalus Media The console version of the game is playable this week at[...]
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Paradox Interactive announced today that the Cities: Skylines Mass Transit expansion is now available on Playstation4, Xbox One and Windows 10 Mass Transit is one of the best-selling expansions for the PC edition of the game, as it puts all sorts of new transit options, systems and scenarios into play Now console players' citizens can commute[...]
Cities: Skylines is now a TeacherGaming Partner
Paradox Interactive announced a partnership with TeacherGaming today in order to launch an educational version of Cities: Skylines The new teaching tool version of the city builder is available for schools world wide through the TeacherGaming.com storefront and as part of the company's game-based learning subscription service, which offers K-12 lesson plans and learning analytics. The educational version[...]
Cities: Skylines Now Lets You Build and Run an Amusement Park
Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have released the playful Parklife expansion for Cities: Skylines on PC The best-selling city-builder now offers vibrant new parks, playgrounds, zoos, and green spaces Because the biggest thing missing from Cities was your ability to enjoy some RollerCoaster Tycoon style park simulation. The game now has a new park area tool, five new maps, a ton[...]
Europa Universalis Getting a Second Shot at Board Game Fame
One of the four board game adaptations of Paradox Interactive's game franchises is for Europa Universalis, which some of you might recall actually started as a board game Not many have played the original Europa Universalis board game, as it was notoriously difficult to properly play Too many moving pieces and too much calculation[...]
Free League Publishing's Crusader Kings Does Let You Murder Your Own Kids
Free League Publishing, best known for their pen and paper RPG Tales of the Loop and Mutant Year Zero, are lending their talents to Paradox Interactive's Crusader Kings IP to bring it to life as a board game The project was announced today at PDXCON, to coincide with the launch of the Kickstarter campaign. Crusader Kings – The Boardgame will[...]
Paradox Interactive Announces 2 New Games, 3 Expansions, and Board Games at PDXCON
  At PDXCON this morning, Paradox Interactive had a ton of announcements for eager strategy fans including two new games, three new expansions to previously existing games, a set of board games based on their mainstay franchises, and even updates on Stellaris. While we covered most of these as they rolled out during the press conference this[...]
Focus on The Indian Subcontinent in Europa Universalis IV: Dharma
Paradox Interactive's third and final DLC expansion announcement coming out of PDXCON today was the Dharma expansion for their best-selling history strategy game Europa Universalis IV. In Dharma, players will find a new level of customization for their governments, and can design a kingdom or republic with new reforms and upgrades. Dharma puts a greater emphasis on peacetime interactions, especially[...]
Crusader Kings II is Taking on a New Crusade in the Holy Fury Expansion
Paradox Interactive announced another new expansion for Crusader Kings II, which will take players on a whole new holy war. Crusader Kings II: Holy Fury gives players charge of a body of righteous warriors on a Crusade for the faith, or in defense against attackers. Holy Fury takes its inspiration from the Northern Crusaders of Catholic Europe against[...]
Paradox Interactive Announces Brand New IP Imperator: Rome
The second major announcement of PDXCON this morning was the news that Paradox Development Studio are working on a brand new, internal game. Imperator: Rome is an upcoming grand strategy game set in the classical world from the glory days of Athens to the establishment of the Roman Empire four centuries later.
Hearts of Iron IV Gets a Navy Expansion – Man the Guns
At PDXCON in Stockholm this morning, Paradox Interactive announced a new expansion for their grand strategy wargame Hearts of Iron IV which will expand the naval and diplomatic options in the game. Paradox Development Studio will have more to say in coming weeks, but, for now, our intelligence agents have been cleared to forward the following information:[...]
Paradox Interactive and Triump Studios Announce Age of Wonders: Planetfall
  At PDXCON in Stockholm this morning, Paradox Interactive released information about a few new games and new expansions coming to their many franchises In terms of new games, the publisher announced Age of Wonders: Planetfall, a new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders and Overlord series Slated for[...]
Get a Look at Some of the Battletech Cinematics Before Launch
But before that, developer Harebrained Schemes and publisher Paradox Interactive have decided to show off some of the game's cinematics These aren't fully animated showcases, they're still frames with some added effects to make it look intense, but they basically do a pretty good job of telling you everything you need to know about the history[...]
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A couple weeks ago we were getting new rumblings about the new Battletech game on the way and how far it had come, now this week we have an official release date and a brand new trailer showing off the story. Paradox Interactive confirmed today that the game will be released on April 24th for $40[...]
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This week, we got a very substantial look at the game as Paradox Interactive and Harebrained Schemes released a new trailer The game has been developed under the eye of Jordan Weisman, the creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior, with the hopes of bringing the awesome elements of the original tabletop versions to life in a different way than other[...]
Cities: Skylines
Consoles are very, very slowly getting in on the mods game that PC gamers have been enjoying for decades now, and Paradox Interactive is the latest to bring mods to the Xbox One edition of their city builder Cities: Skylines. Available today as a free addition to the game for all players on Xbox One, a selection[...]
Civilization 5 Lead Designer Leaves Paradox Interactive After 6 Months
When Jon Shafer joined Paradox Interactive, it made a lot of sense The lead designer of Civilization V joining the developer seemed like a match made in heaven Both at the head of the 4X genre, in theory it could have produced some excellent content. Sadly, it seems like it just didn't work out After around[...]
BattleTech's Latest Trailer Shows Off Some Multiplayer Gameplay
You can read up about BattleTech a bit more here, which includes news of the Paradox Interactive publishing deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6FatHHnzI   Harebrained Schemes' latest BattleTech may be being published by Paradox Intertainment, but that hasn't stopped the team from working on the game This latest trailer features an updated look at the multiplayer gameplay to give players an idea of[...]
Jon Shafer Joins Paradox Interactive While His Kickstarter Remains In The Dark
In a press release sent out yesterday, it was announced that John Shafer, former lead designer for Civilization V, would join Paradox Interactive The Sweedish developer will be putting him in charge of a new team designing a strategy title for the company. Beyond what we just wrote, there aren't a lot of details to scavenge[...]
Wanna Live On Mars Kinda? You're Getting A Sim About It
Being published by Paradox Interactive, Surviving Mars will let you select one of several space agencies to work for as you plan out cities and help terraform one of the deadest planets in our solar system Your goal is simple: keep the colonists alive while also expanding the cities and helping the project thrive against[...]
Paradox Interactive Will Publish Harebrained Schemes' Latest BattleTech Game
Publisher Paradox Interactive has entered a deal with developer Harebrained Schemes to publish the new BattleTech game Harebrained Schemes raised more than $2.7 million on Kickstarter to back the project, which is going to be the first turn-based strategy entry in the series in over two decades, and this deal should have fans plenty excited. The team backing[...]
Paradox Interactive Acquires White Wolf Publishing
By Christopher Helton Shocking news in tabletop gaming came down the other day as it was announced that Paradox Interactive, publishers of video games like Crusader Kings II and Magika, had acquired White Wolf Publishing and the related Vampire: The Masquerade and World of Darkness rights brands from CCP Games The deal for White Wolf Publishing[...]
Paradox Interactive Has Figured Out The Best Way To Combat Game Piracy
Some add game breaking bugs that slowly reveals pirates as they complain in forums, but Paradox Interactive have decided to take a different tact. Cities: Skyline is the latest game from the developer and it too has been hit by pirating Paradox's Shams Jorjani has revealed the plan to beat the activity over twitter[...]
Europa Universalis 4 Gets Free DLC Focused On The Women Of History
Happy International Women's Day! Did you know it was? Well, it is! Lots of people I know is off celebrating in different ways, be it watching movies, playing games, reading comics with female protagonists or just celebrating history. Paradox Interactive are celebrating in their own way too by releasing a free bit of DLC for Europa[...]