Cities XL is an ambitious, competent, and beautiful city builder that combines many familiar elements of the genre with a few new multiplayer and social-gaming twists.
City-building and other sandbox-style management/building games (Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City, etc.) is a genre that hasn't seen a lot of groundbreaking achievements in recent years, but Cities XL manages to breathe some new life and interesting features into the relatively quiet genre.
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.
