Monte Cristo Games is apparently not willing to wait any longer for a US retail distribution deal for their city simulation Cities XL. On the games official web site the dev team has announced that the game will be self-published by them . . but will not be released (yet) in retail stores.
Rather the game will be made available via download from several established services like Direct2Drive, Steam, Impulse, GameTap and others. Cities XL will be released on October 9 from these outlets. If you are still not hip to the idea of downloading games, you can send in your money for a mail order release of a boxed version. Monte Cristo will even pay for your shipping charges.
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.
i might actually buy this through digital delivery for the first time since i can get 3MB+/s down from most places
I just cant fawkin wait