Planet Zoo 2 First Impressions: Is It Worth Taking the Plunge?

I was incredibly excited when Planet Zoo 2 was first announced. I’m long past being aggravated by the modern gaming cycle—the one that requires us to buy dozens of expansions to fully realise a game. That’s just how developers survive these days. They need to keep...

Planet Zoo: Building a Functional but Friendly Lemur Habitat

I needed to increase the number of habitat species in the Bernie Goodwin Memorial Zoo to finally smash past the Bronze Medal stage of the scenario. I decided to go with a lemur habitat for a few great reasons: Double the market: There are two different types of lemurs...

The Sims 4: The Forever Save File Idea

I genuinely thought I’d thought of this myself—a truly genius idea to make my gameplay more immersive, I reckoned—until I decided to write about it and discovered that it’s already “A Thing.” It’s called a Forever Save file. It is a single, ongoing save...

A Bumpy Ride? Planet Coaster 2

I haven’t been playing Planet Coaster 2 for very long—just a couple of months—and it’s been a rather bumpy ride. This isn’t because of the game itself. I know it wasn’t well-received at launch, but I believe Frontier has made a lot of improvements. No, the bumpy...

Slowing Down at the Bernie Goodwin Memorial Zoo

I upgraded to a new PC last year—a much-needed change—which meant reloading Planet Zoo and redoing all the career scenarios from scratch. If I’m being honest, I’ve never been the biggest fan of these scenarios. They don’t give me the free rein to change everything I...