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The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?

From disappointing launches to delays to cancellations, it's been a rough time for the Swedish publisher, but it's trying to bounce back.

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Cities: Skylines 2 publisher says players "have higher expectations" today and are "less accepting" that games will "fix things over time"

"A few games bring in most of the players, and most games are dropped quite quickly"

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Bloodlines 2 is 'a bit more of an action RPG,' Paradox exec says: 'People who have seen it talk about Dishonored'

Paradox deputy CEO Mattias Lilja says The Chinese Room is putting its own stamp on the game.

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Paradox exec admits canceled life sim Life By You wasn't "actually clearly better than Sims 4 in any of its main areas"

Life By You was canceled in June

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Paradox boss says Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is doing well, it's "a bit more of an action RPG" and "people who have seen it talk about Dishonored"

The long-delayed sequel has changed devs and seemingly found its footing

GamesRadar

Would-be The Sims competitor Life By You was canceled because publisher Paradox realized "everything will be worse if we keep going, so we have to stop"

The life sim had one too many "flaws"

GamesRadar

Cities: Skylines 2 launched too early, says Paradox deputy CEO, but early access wouldn't have been a solution: 'A dev team that thinks they're going to have a nicer ride on an early access game, I think fool themselves'

"The lesson learned is that we should probably not launch that early."

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Even after cancelling Life By You, Paradox would make another life sim, 'but in a different way'

Unlike RPGs, the publisher still sees life sims as a good fit for its pillars.

PC Gamer

Paradox wants to get out of the RPG business: 'If Bloodlines 2, God willing, is successful, Bloodlines 3 [will be] done by someone else'

It's time for someone else to shoulder the World of Darkness curse.

PC Gamer

Paradox scrupulously avoids saying 'Nazis' in the new Hearts of Iron 4 expansion announcement, which is all about Nazis

Hearts of Iron 4: Gotterdammerung comes out on November 14.

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Activision said 'no' to Skyrim modders 3 years into remaking a semi-obscure vampire RPG it published a lifetime ago, so now those modders are reworking it into a new story

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption Reawakened is now just Vampire: The Masquerade - Reawakened.

PC Gamer

The first Deadpool and Wolverine deleted scene is here, and it dismantles the MCU in just 40 seconds

Doctor Strange and Ant-Man, take cover

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Crusader Kings 3's new expansion moves the grand strategy game closer to the RPG it's destined to become

The Roads to Power expansion finally lets you play as someone who isn't a rich a**hole.

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Cities: Skylines 2 Creator Packs and the Bridges and Ports Expansion are being delayed so the devs don't have to 'split our focus'

There's no clear timeline yet.

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Harebrained reveals its first game following split from Paradox: A survival-horror RPG where you blast limbs off your enemies and then attach them to your own body

It's called Graft, which seems appropriate.

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This Exciting New Cyberpunk Game Will Explore a Surprising Genre

Harebrained Schemes just announced an upcoming horror game that's a far cry from its popular turn-based tactics games, 'Battletech' and 'Shadowrun Trilogy.'

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Crusader Kings 3 players have pet their digital cats and dogs over 11 million times

Paradox shares some 4th anniversarry stats for the historical grand strategy.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 delayed out of 2024 — here's what you need to know

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is being delayed out of 2024, and will now be arriving at some point in the first half of 2025.

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time to 'add more endings to the game' along with some extra polish

It's now expected out in the first half of 2025.

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Previously unreleased Life By You screenshots are making life sim fans even sadder that it got cancelled

Why did Paradox cancel Life By You, anyway?

TechRadar

Prison Architect 2 has been delayed indefinitely ahead of its launch next month

The prison management simulation game, Prison Architect 2, has been delayed indefinitely.

PC Gamer

Crusader Kings 3 is, unexpectedly, the latest videogame to receive an official comic book

You'll be able to read it for free and learn all about Basil I, the Byzantine emperor.

PC Gamer

Paradox indefinitely delays Prison Architect 2, just like it did with Life By You before it was scrapped

So close, yet so far.

GamesRadar

Paradox woes continue after Life by You cancellation, now with yet another "indefinite" Prison Architect 2 delay

The publisher is still "confident" that the sequel will be great

PC Gamer

Grand strategy fans gobsmacked by this outrageously detailed Holy Roman Empire map from the unannounced Europa Universalis 5

History sickos are shocked and delighted by the confetti of principalities.

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