Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order today announced that Cities in Motion: U.S. Cities, an upcoming expansion scheduled to be released on the 17th of this month, will add San Francisco and New York. Both cities will be available to play in campaign and sandbox mode, and will include new vehicles, new transportation types, and plenty [...] Continue Reading »
Focus Home Interactive today released an official trailer for Cities XL 2012, giving viewers more of a look at the upcoming next installment in the city building series. The game is set to be released tomorrow. "With more than one minute of impressive video, players can discover part of the immense new content offered by [...] Continue Reading »
Paradox Interactive and VSTEP today announced the release of a free DLC pack for Ship Simulator Extremes to celebrate the game's first anniversary. "In Harbor Pilot, players will experience the pressures and responsibilities of a Maritime Pilot, reflecting the real-life importance of the profession in maritime safety, and how the economic and environmental risks from [...] Continue Reading »
Responding to all the bad press from last week Ubisoft today announced on its forum that a patch for From Dust will be released in approximately two weeks that will remove online authentication. "We recognize that one of our posts in the From Dust forum regarding the need for authentication in the game was not [...] Continue Reading »
From Dust was released for PC today and is now available. That being said, there are some big controversies surrounding the PC version of the game. Will From Dust be the last straw for Ubisoft games on the PC? The PC version was initially supposed to be released with the console version but was delayed [...] Continue Reading »
EA Play today announced the launch of The Sims Social on Facebook, which is available globally. The Sims Social builds on the popular series and allows you to play the "browser-based" game with your real friends on Facebook. "The Sims Social allows friends and rivals to play with life on the largest social-networking site where [...] Continue Reading »
Electronic Arts today announced FIFA Manager 12, the next installment in the sports management series in development at Bright Future. "The 11th edition of the football management simulation will include features inspired and determined by the community, in addition to a full feature set and game modes with more than 700 improvements, when the game [...] Continue Reading »
Focus Home Interactive today announced "Cities XL 2012", a new installment in the city building simulation series. "Cities XL 2012 allows players to become real urban planners, balancing economic & energy developments of their cities while managing transportation, housing, social services and recreational activities. Content is key to the new game, as Cities XL 2012 [...] Continue Reading »
Paradox Interactive today announced the release of "Cities in Motion: Tokyo", a new expansion in the series by Colossal Order. "Welcome to Tokyo, Japan’s largest and capital city. The citizens of this sprawling metropolis await your transit guidance and expertise. You must build a reliable and efficient transit system while playing through an all new [...] Continue Reading »
The Sims always has been a classic sandbox game. The addictive allure of the game is that there were no rules. You could play nurturingly, guiding your Sims through a career ladder doing everything you can to make them successful and reaping the rewards, or you could play as a complete bastard, walling off the front door, letting the fridge empty and the toilets overflow, and watching the occupants slowly go crazy and die. Continue Reading »
Electronic Arts today announced "The Sims 3 Generations", a new expansion pack focusing on humorous and memorable moments from the teenage years to adulthood, which will be released this spring. "From new celebrations to dramatic life events, The Sims 3 Generations offers gamers all-new ways to express their Sims’, characters unique to The Sims, creativity. [...] Continue Reading »
Electronic Arts today announced that "The Sims Medieval", the new stand-alone addition to the series, has been shipped and is now available at retailers worldwide. "Set in the Middle Ages, players will find themselves faced with new ways to play with life like never before. As they build up their kingdom, players create Hero Sims [...] Continue Reading »
Transport Tycoon is pretty much the beginning and the end of its own little sub-genre. Nothing made since has been able to effectively overcome its influence, and the successes subsequent to it have opted for apprentice status rather than overtly challenge the master. It's difficult to explain how closely Cities resembles Tycoon. Perhaps the best [...] Continue Reading »
Paradox Interactive today announced that "Cities in Motion" has been shipped. "Developed by Colossal Order Ltd, Cities in Motion sees players develop and operate their own public transport company building a travel network across Vienna, Berlin, Helsinki and Amsterdam using more than 30 different modes of transport including buses, trams, subway trains and water buses. [...] Continue Reading »
Paradox Interactive today released a new "Cities in Motion" video interview with Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of Colossal Order. "In the five and half minute video, Hallikainen describes some of the key features and gameplay elements that the development team has implemented in to the game including an underground view for the metro system, a first [...] Continue Reading »
