PCF writes: "I just had what was essentially a delicious glorified hotdog with Monte Cristo's International Product Manager, Alexandre Zambeaux. He was in the country to promote Cities XL, which is the French company's latest city management title.
Cities XL looks ambitious to say the least, like a more serious and realistic version of Spore. It rams pretty much every management genre into one coherent whole; you've got the city-building of Sim City, the entertainment area development of the Tycoon series, and some MMO elements from World of Warcraft and Second Life."
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.
