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When players enter the virtual worlds of video games, they are greeted by complex architectural environments. These virtual spaces do more than serve as mere backdrops for gameplay. The design of ...

If you want something more ambitious than base building, these titles where players can develop entire cultures are perfect.

Gothamist is giddy over finding the New York Architecture Game, because with all this talk of rich dudes trying to make their mark on the city gives us serious urban development envy. Conceived by the ...

Simone de Rochefort has been producing & hosting YouTube videos for Polygon since 2016. She co-directed the upcoming documentary The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft. Architecture plays a huge role ...

The Sims works great as a playground for taking your OCs, or even pre-established characters, and building little worlds for them where all sorts of shenanigans can take place. Except sometimes, you ...

Although Control leans heavily into orderly Brutalism, certain sections literally spiral into Inception-like dreamscapes. (Jonathan Hilburg/Courtesy Remedy Entertainment) 2019’s Control is the perfect ...

Paradox's popular building sim is making a return with Prison Architect 2. However, its development has been going about as smoothly as a prison would if I were in charge. The publisher has announced ...

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Paradox Interactive's upcoming prison management sim, Prison Architect 2, has now got a release date - and it's less than three months away. A lot has changed since the first Prison Architect game, ...

One of the new features of the Xbox Series X is called "Xbox Velocity Architecture," and it's a new piece of technology that Microsoft says will help the console make games look and run better. In a ...