Today in Gaming News – October 31, 2024

As big developers and publishers continue announcing their financial results, more gaming news continues to be revealed, albeit not all of them are good.

Here at Simulation Daily, we publish roundups with more gaming news that couldn’t be covered in individual articles, to keep you up to date with the work and games from a wider variety of developers than we otherwise could.

Before we get into it here’s a series of handy links to the gaming news that did get their own separate coverage

Incidentally, if you’re interested in gaming news specifically about flight simulation, we have a dedicated roundup.

Popular Cities: Skylines 2 Mod Included Potential Malicious Code

Developer Colossal Order announced that the popular Traffic Mod for Cities: Skylines 2 included a potential security issue that may have placed malicious code on the PC’s of many users.

The developer is currently investigating, but it published a primer on what you should do if you play the game and potentially downloaded the mod.

If you have not played with the Traffic mod and have not subscribed nor downloaded it, there should be no risk to your system and nothing you need to do.
If you have the Traffic mod and have not played Cities: Skylines 2 between Monday and today, let the mod sync as normal, and the malicious file should be deleted automatically. Please still scan your system with an anti-malware program like Windows Defender.
If you have played using the affected version, please check your local files. If you have any malicious files installed, you will find them here; %localappdata%low\Colossal Order\Cities Skylines II\.cache\Mods\mods_subscribed\ inside the folder 80095_13
- Note that it is only specifically the 80095_13 folder that will contain malicious files; if you do not see this folder, you do not have the compromised version of the mod.
- If you do locate this folder, use an antivirus or antimalware program to quarantine it and/or remove it from your system, and run a thorough scan of your drives.
As a precaution, we recommend changing your passwords.

The developer also mentioned that it’s taking the following steps.

We will be going through all files uploaded to Paradox Mods and see if any other mods have had unexpected updates.
We have contacted the modder whose mod was compromised and discussed our recommended steps to secure their account. They have updated Traffic to a safe version, so anyone playing with version v.0.2.4 is playing with a safe version.
Paradox Mods will receive an update that notifies modders when their mods have been updated so that creators are quickly alerted to changes they have not personally made.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII Reveals Machiavelli

Today Fiaxis revealed another leader who will appear in the upcoming game, Niccolò Machiavelli. Here’s what you can expect from him directly from the official site.

Unique Ability

Il Principe: Gain additional Influence per Age. Gain a set amount of Gold per Age when your Diplomatic Action proposals are accepted, or even more Gold per Age when they are rejected. Ignore Relationship requirements for declaring Formal Wars. You can Levy Military Units from City-States you are not Suzerain of.

Attributes:

Diplomatic
Economic

Agendas:

The Spider: If not at war with Machiavelli, increase Relationship by Medium Amount for each other war.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Introduces the Camarilla Court

Today Paradox and The Chinese Room released a new trailer of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.

The trailer introduces four members of the Camarilla Court in Seattle, See Benny, Tolly, Safia, and Lou. Of course, we don’t see much to avoid spoilers. Just enough to whet the appetite.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will be released in the first half of 2025 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.