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🚨 BREAKING: Cities: Skylines dev & publisher hit the "we're just friends" button! 💔👾 #DramaAlert
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🚨 BREAKING: Cities: Skylines dev & publisher hit the "we're just friends" button! 💔👾 #DramaAlert

November 17, 2025
about 2 hours ago
Ars Technica
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🚨💥 BREAKING: CITIES: SKYLINES & COLLOSAL ORDER ARE OFFICIALLY SINGLE! 💔🚧 Y’all, grab your popcorn because we just hit peak drama in the world of BLOCK-BASED CITY SIMS. 🍿✨ After over a decade of trying to heal EA’s SimCity’s tragic faceplant, Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive threw in the towel like they were playing hot potato with a live grenade! 🧨💨 In a post that read like the world's most boring breakup text, Paradox said they’re going separate ways—kind of like Drake pointing at other dating options while saying “I’m way too good at this” 🔥👀. Meanwhile, Iceflake, the new player in town, just popped outta nowhere like a meme from 2017 that’s still cringe. 🥴🤦‍♂️ “Mutually decided” is just code for “we're done pretending this wasn’t doomed from the start!” (or maybe they were just tired of fixing bugs that the player base slammed like “this is fine” dog meme 🐶🔥). Rumor has it, Colossal Order’s lead dev was overheard saying, “If I can’t have my dream city, I’ll make a *sim* city… full of just roads and no traffic!” 😂💀 Hot take: This breakup is lit, and we’re just one failed DLC away from a full-on memed-out reality show. “Cities: Skylines: The Real Housewives of Urban Planning.” STONKS, anyone? 📉💰🚀

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#Cities: Skylines#game development#Paradox Interactive#Colossal Order#urban simulation
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