If you’re hungry for a new factory automation and base-building game, StarRupture has entered Steam Early Access on January 6, 2026. The game comes from Creepy Jar, the team behind Green Hell, which ...

I love watching a well-engineered build chug along in Satisfactory or Factorio, but newcomer Alchemy Factory might have just stolen their thunder as my favorite in the format to watch in motion.

Gather, craft, build, thrive, and sometimes survive. Here's what 2026 has in store for the open-world crafting genre.

There's something inherently cozy about management sims. I don't know whether it's the micromanagement of it all, the meticulous layout design process, or just the simple pleasure of watching numbers ...

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While we're not going to get into every single possible ratio in Factorio here, because they are endless, let's talk about what these ratios are and why they are important for maximum efficiency in ...

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Automation standards from ISA—a global leader in industry-developed, consensus standards for more than six decades—serve as best-practice guidelines that direct proper system design, implementation, ...

Takes several parameters that indicate which map to generate. If you don't specify enough, it will complain and crash. --factorio-commit-id indicates the commit hash from the Factorio repository to ...

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have the potential to revolutionize research in economics and other disciplines. I describe 25 use cases along six domains in which LLMs are starting to ...