
Bit-Tech writes: "Straight lines. When it comes to city simulator games the straight line is king, be it the grid upon which you construct your comically named urban utopia (We called ours New Bazberg), the highways that deliver traffic, the flow of utilities beneath the streets or the construction of the buildings themselves. Straight lines rule when you're building your own mini-metropolis. Cities XL then is a curve when it comes to city sims – and we don't just mean the ability to build bendy roads either."

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.