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10 years after launch, Steam icon Factorio gets its "last major update" as devs reveal plan to "conclude the active gameplay development"

Wube Software will now "shift the focus onto long term support"

Palworld lead calls Factorio "one of the most influential games" on Steam, and "can't imagine" how different the gaming landscape would be without it

Palworld lead calls Factorio "one of the most influential games" on Steam, and "can't imagine" how different the gaming landscape would be without it

Factorio is ending development of major updates with 2.1

Factorio's next major update will also be its last, as its developer announces it has 'reached a good place to conclude active gameplay development'

Factorio's next major update will also be its last, as its developer announces it has 'reached a good place to conclude active gameplay development'

Wube Software will shift focus onto "long term support" after update 2.1.

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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'

Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.

Maybe I should just buy Factorio? I'd like Arknights: Endfield a lot more if it would stop trying to be Genshin Impact and just let me build

Leave me alone, I have quotas to hit.

Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times

Put aside a week to get the game loaded.

This Factorio-ish sim is threatening to devour hours of my time, and I haven't even gotten to the part where I make my own starships yet

The station must grow.

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I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends

I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends

I played way too many Steam Next Fest demos this week. Here's what I thought about almost all of them.

I didn't think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick

I didn't think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick

Build and program a synthetic ant colony in Microtopia.

The Factorio 'God Factory' was one of this year's greatest gaming feats: 'Most players will never find themselves hitting the limits of the game. We are.'

The Factorio 'God Factory' was one of this year's greatest gaming feats: 'Most players will never find themselves hitting the limits of the game. We are.'

"The most difficult obstacle has been not burning out."

PC Gamer's highest review scores of 2024

PC Gamer's highest review scores of 2024

Two games received rare 95% scores, and another came in at 94% in what was a pretty fantastic year for new games.

Planetary Annihilation successor has a bumpy landing on Steam, and the backers aren't happy: 'So bare bones that it's basically an asset show without a game'

Planetary Annihilation successor has a bumpy landing on Steam, and the backers aren't happy: 'So bare bones that it's basically an asset show without a game'

The 'Factorio meets Total Annihilation' concept has legs, but clearly has a long way to go.

Unannounced Ryzen 9 9950X3D dominates Ryzen 7 9800X3D in Factorio benchmark — Ryzen 9000X3D flagship up to 18% faster than current fastest gaming CPU

Unannounced Ryzen 9 9950X3D dominates Ryzen 7 9800X3D in Factorio benchmark — Ryzen 9000X3D flagship up to 18% faster than current fastest gaming CPU

The 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D is much faster than the 8-core 9800X3D according to one benchmark site that has a result for the as-of-yet unannounced chip.

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Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now

Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now

This has to be a statistically significant portion of the world's engineers, admins, and coders.

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Factorio: Space Age review

With interplanetary logistics and four imaginative new ways to build factories, expansion Space Age reaffirms Factorio’s position as the greatest game in the genre it spawned.

Factorio's player count is through the roof after the Space Age expansion, ripping thousands of engineers away from their day jobs

Just shy of 100,000 is out of this world.

Beloved factory management game Factorio launches its sequel-sized DLC to 98% overwhelmingly positive reviews and an all-time player count record

Space Age is more than ready for lift-off

Y'all have to see these gruesome starfish monsters coming in Factorio: Space Age

Some of the best new creature design in years... and it's for Factorio.

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Factorio's big Space Age expansion arrives in October and it's going to be even bigger than we thought

What's better than four new planets? Try five.

'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute

Over the weekend, Factorio history was made.

Factorio 2.0 will let items on conveyor belts stack, something long thought impossible

Seriously, they said it couldn't be done for a decade.

8 years later, Factorio finally adds a feature initially dubbed "too hardcore" as the management game's lead says "it is usually a mistake to underestimate the players"

It's been a long time coming for Parameterized Blueprints

Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one

Work for the upcoming expansion is having serious ripples in the base game features.

Factorio's giant Space Age expansion is coming in 2024

Build space platforms to explore four new worlds.

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