Today Monte Cristo Games is making available a special interview with CEO Jerome Gastaldi that discusses the concepts behind their hotly anticipated city-building title – Cities XL. Having just launched a massive beta - IGN wanted to share some thoughts from Mr. Gastaldi about the current market for games in the genre, along with an overview of the core concepts behind the game's combination of city-building, social networking and tycoon gameplay.
This week’s Humble Weekly Bundle, Focus Home Interactive 2, features a variety of different games which will please RPG fans to city-simulator fans. Notably, unlike normal bundles there are four tiers (compared to the usual three) — when you buy into one tier, you can’t change the size of your order without contacting Customer Support.
In Episode 52 of the Game Under Podcast, Phil Fogg explains why he's taking 20 hours to finish Shovel Knights (he is an accidental platforming masochist), and Tom Towers declines to play anything: instead he joins Phil in an all encompassing discussion on videogame criticism!
CitiesXL Platinum gets a release trailer with buildings being build to the sound of dubstep music.
I like how they put "Build Huge Cities" in there. From what I see in Simcity. Cities are so small.