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The former Firaxis lead designer joins to make a new strategy game

Management sim Cities: Skylines is coming to Xbox One later this year, Paradox Interactive has announced. The game will launch this spring and will also include the original’s first expansion, Cities: Skylines – After Dark. Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition is being ported by Tantalus Media (previously responsible for …

Paradox Interactive has released its end of year report for 2016 and the Swedish games publisher is in rude health. Revenue for Q4 increased by 56 per cent year-on-year, reaching 198.4m Swedish Krona [17.8m], while operating profit for Q4 increased by 96 per cent year-on-year, reaching 85.9m Swedish Krona [7.7m]. …

Creator complies, responding: ‘I firmly believe Steam Spy should be seen as a useful tool by developers, not as a threat'

Paradox Interactive says 2016 was a record-breaker following the smash sales of PC hits Cities: Skylines and Stellaris. Sim title Cities: Skylines sold over 2m copies since it debuted in March 2015, while newly released space strategy title Stellaris shifted 200,000 units in just one day. The past 12 months …

Chinese gaming giant Tencent has spent around 14.3m to acquire a five per cent share of Paradox Interactive. The deal values the company at approximately 286m. Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester stays on as a key shareholder with a 33.3 per cent share of the company. Investment firm Splitan owns 30.5 …

The makers of PC strategy title Stellaris have taken action against a mod that appeared to push a white supremacist agenda. The mod in question removed the game’s rich mix of cultural and racial characters and replaced them with an all-white cast. Paradox has said that while it was uncomfortable …

Publisher Paradox Interactive has urged fans to stop lambasting IGN for what some feel is an unfair review of Stellaris. The space strategy title, which is off to an incredibly strong start, has a Metacritic rating of 78 per cent. IGN awarded the title a 6.3/10, saying that sections later …

Space strategy title Stellaris has been an instant hit for publisher Paradox Interactive. The game has in its first 24 hours on sale sold over 200,000 units. That’s actually slightly short of the 250k copies sold by Paradox’s former release Cities: Skylines, but Stellaris’ higher price means that it represents …

Paradox Interactive is celebrating the first birthday of city builder Cities: Skylines by announcing a highly impressive sales milestone. The game has in its first year sold over 2m units worldwide. It’s the fastest selling game the company has ever released. It previously sold 250k units on its first day, …