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Latest News:
05/14/2010
Tropico 3 "Absolute Power" expansion pack releases on steam today for $19.99
Tropico 4 has been announced.
06/03/2010
MonteCristo, the developers of Cities XL have filed for protection in the Paris courts today. The title (CitiesXL) which they kept saying was being worked on for a new name release of Cities 2011 has been reported that it was bought by a yet unnamed publisher but who would be named when this buyer feels like coming out of the closet and letting the world know that they bought the game.
Update: Game was sold to Focus Home Interactive. Everyone here at CBG wishes them well and know that with enough determination, and listening to the community they will turn around what MonteCristo failed to do.
10/4/2010
Focus Home Interactive, the new owners of Cities XL, (the city building game) has announced recently that owners of the original Cities XL 2009 will be able to purchase Cities XL 2011 at a 50% discount. This is surely good news for Cities XL enthusiasts as it will be similar in price as purchasing an expansion pack depending on the price that FHI sets for CXL 11. You will Need your original Cities XL 2009 serial number to obtain this discount and as we've read recently, you will be able to get this special pricing both from purchasing the game from the Cities XL website as well as on the Steam platform.
Focus Home Interactive has now restored order to the CitiesXL.com website by adding their own forums again. This is surely good news as it allows a direct ear to FHI from the players. Hopefully they will be monitoring it and listening to the players unlike Montecristo that did monitor but didn't do much listening.
Want to find out what is going to be present in Cities XL 2011? You should head over to the official forums and check out the 'Beta thread' for the information.
My opinion: It's definitely worth buying, especially if you already have the 2009 version so that you can get the 50% discount.
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The Sims 3: Ambitions Expansion Pack (Is it worth the $39.99 price tag?)
Goto Poll Topic >> And let the world know what you think. 4273 Views | 1 Comments | Rating: (0 rates)
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by Darth Nemesis on February 02, 2012, 10:35:24 AMFor all the Industry Giant and Transport Giant fans out there. . . Nordic games has acquired Jowood, and they seem to be open to supporting a lot of JoWoods old labels. Perhaps they might be ready to work on an updated version of Industry Giant or Transport Giant (IG2 was released 10 years ago!) if they hear from enough of us. Their contact page is at:
www. nordicgames. se/index. php?/contact
Hopefully we can deluge them with enough emails to... 71 Views | 2 Replies
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by alincarpetman on February 01, 2012, 02:53:13 PMHello,
I didn't see any topics about 0Ad and since it is an rts and not a city builder game there is no forum for it. However there is a lot of potential with this game since it will have the option for full custom modding which is great.
"0 A. D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game under development by Wildfire Games. It is a historical war and economy game focusing on the years between 500 B. C. and A.... 108 Views | 4 Replies
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by alincarpetman on January 26, 2012, 07:42:13 PMHello,
I just recently found out about this forum and it's great to see people still playing various city builder games. I myself am still exploring old and new games when I have the time and occasionally have ideas for new games. I have posted lists of city builder games and ideas for potential new games in various forums.
For ancient city builders I posted here in the Heavengames City Builder Forum:
hcgb: caesar3. heavengames.... 185 Views | 1 Reply
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by crowebird on January 24, 2012, 06:51:00 PMSo from dust is $5 on steam... and after all the hype I had for this game, I still don't feel it is worth $5 considering all its bad press...
But if you were ever interested in the game, it is on sale for the week. 165 Views | 4 Replies
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by City Builder on January 13, 2012, 05:36:53 PMSo just a quick word to say that I'm enjoying the hell out of Terraria. Wishing it was more 3D like minecraft, but overall I like how much stuff there is to craft and that there are boss mobs that I need to kill (eventually), all and all it's quite enjoyable, if I can somehow make a slime trap that automatically kills the slimes and collects the money and gel, I'd be in heaven in this game. I'd set one trap on each side of my house/castle in the making just to... 441 Views | 18 Replies
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by crowebird on January 10, 2012, 08:06:46 PMI don't know if anyone here is playing AOE:O
but they just released a skirmish booster pack (free for a while) that makes the game almost exactly like AOC and I am in complete nostalgia mode! It is not 100% complete but you can do up to 2v4 with a friend for classic age battles - they even added a bunch of the classic maps (even with Black Forest [my all time favorite!] :D).
To me all skirmish mode is missing is up to 4v4 (or even 2v2v2v2, etc.) end game statistics,... 176 Views | 2 Replies
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by Khalan on January 08, 2012, 09:55:23 PMI heard about this game a while ago and never bothered with it. But I got it as part of the last Humble Indie bundle and just tried it yesterday. It is great!
For those who haven't heard of it: first, it's 2D and 4:3 ratio, but other than that the art direction and atmosphere is brilliant. You play a pilot of a flying machine (sort of a barrel not much bigger than a man) with massive weapons attached to it - flails, swords, axes, hammers etc. You fly... 156 Views | 0 Replies
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| by Khalan on January 08, 2012, 10:36:47 AM |
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by Khalan on January 05, 2012, 10:04:52 AMThis looks very interesting. It's a voxel world similar to Minecraft, though smoothed. Like Minecraft, the world is fully dynamic, in that it can be dug through and reshaped etc. The goal is to build your own castle (by handplacing where each brick should go) and defend it from AI or other players. Early stages yet but it's looking great. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/05/voxels-strategy-crafting-castle-story/221 Views | 2 Replies
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by City Builder on December 24, 2011, 01:42:37 AMHi, Does anybody know where to get or have the fix so that Industry Giant 2 can be played with modern video cards? I dug up the disk a few moments ago and would like to play this on the new laptop that I got for christmas, but unfortunately the GTX 560m is way too modern and I know there was a user created patch to make the game work with modern day video cards but since the demise of JoWood and their website, I can't find the fan based patch that fixes the issues. 625 Views | 6 Replies
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by Khalan on December 21, 2011, 07:05:58 AMAdmittedly this is time split between me and my son (until I got him his own PC), but I think you can safely say that this game has value for money:  I'm sure you've all heard of or played this. For those that haven't, it's basically 2D minecraft with many more adventure elements, and as of patch 1.1, quite a lot of features. And as you can... 270 Views | 3 Replies
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by fredreed on December 20, 2011, 05:40:15 AMI heard and read alot about Minecraft but what exactly is Minecraft? I mean is this like a city building game or just explain to me in simple terms. 296 Views | 4 Replies
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by crowebird on December 17, 2011, 07:39:28 PMSeamless glass in MC: 333 Views | 4 Replies
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by crowebird on December 16, 2011, 11:21:19 PMSo this has to be the coolest, simplest minecraft elevator I have ever seen... best part: no redstone, no pistons. Bedrock to sky in 6 seconds flat:
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qShSeP5q6zs&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/qShSeP5q6zs&rel=1</a>]]>238 Views | 0 Replies
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by Virmin on November 29, 2011, 10:19:46 PMI'm not sure if anyone else is as crazy about large islands in MC as I am. But if you are I found a map I thought was really cool. I wasn't sure that you could even get islands of this size in the game. I figured you probably would only get super large(endless?) continents or really small islands. So I was delighted to find in this map that not to far from spawn, about x300 z600 is a large mountainous island that is about 400x250 meters square. Then just to the south of... 271 Views | 0 Replies
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by DenSomKastade on November 20, 2011, 08:26:37 AMHi!
I'm trying to make my own city builder game. Any ideas where to start? (I'm want to make it from scratch and I'm most familiar with programming in java. 587 Views | 4 Replies
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by crowebird on October 30, 2011, 07:52:04 PMSo ya... I am desperately trying to hold out. I figure I could wait till Christmas where it would probably show up on a steam sale, and also know that many of the initial bugs have been squashed, but I don't know if I can do it... The game is calling, and the buy now button is so appealing... lol If you have not seen them yet, here is a good rundown of a lot of the game and its features:
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/LZzADxVZP50&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/LZzADxVZP50&rel=1</a>]]>,... 3365 Views | 133 Replies
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by MaxKos on October 20, 2011, 03:24:45 PM  Well the release date for this game is getting nearer and I'm still in two minds whether to pre order it or wait until the price drops a bit. There are things I like and other bits that leave me underwhelmed. Frankly considering they have had 10 years to tinker with it and are using the new Havoc game engine to produce the new physics, I'm not all that impressed. I liked playing Stronghold 2 for all its shortcomings, for this new release they seem to have gone back to... 808 Views | 14 Replies
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by Clarisse on October 20, 2011, 12:11:49 AMThe iPhone was introduced largely as a consumer product. But such was its power and beauty, it wasn't long before the debate of "how good is iPhone for businesses" started raging. This article presents the pros and cons of iPhone as a business tool, and taking HyperOffice as a case in study, discusses how web based apps have truly taken this originally consumer device into the business realm. 216 Views | 0 Replies
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| by eagleFMJ on September 28, 2011, 07:14:15 PM |
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by Face on September 20, 2011, 04:05:46 PMthe knights and merchants thread reminded me of another somewhat similar game, that i wanted to see if anyone else had played.
Seven Kingdoms
Seven Kingdoms : Ancient Adversaries
There are other games in the series, but I have only played the earlier versions.
A great game with multiple avenues for success. Raise an army and go to town, or as i generally chose, build a economic powerhouse and dominate the map. Fun either way. I liked controlling all the... 507 Views | 1 Reply
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by Mystara on September 20, 2011, 08:34:50 AMHello Everyone,
I am surprised that there isn't a single post about the game Knights and Merchants.
I have played (and replayed) this game dozens of times and I find it to be one of the better City Builder/RTS games out there. I would rate it as my second favorite with Settlers 2 (both releases) being my favorite.
I am curious as to why such a gem of a game was overlooked. 484 Views | 2 Replies
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by pad11 on September 18, 2011, 03:19:24 AMDid anyone play this? I never did, just bought it and it seems very interesting...albeit three hours in ! pat! 277 Views | 0 Replies
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by Face on September 10, 2011, 11:30:50 AMThere was a way to view your(and others) current skin on the minecraft.net site. I believe it was on your profile page.
Has that been removed? I have not tried to look at it for some time, but while looking for it today could not find it. 776 Views | 0 Replies
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by MoridinUK on August 29, 2011, 02:22:14 AMI have a problem,
I can not build an oriental island my rank is too low. But I can't get any prestige to increase my rank I need advice?
[spoiler]
I hired the robber camps to destroy guys island but now I need to build a surgeon house and provide William with 20 glass. So I need patricians, and that means spice, but there is no where to get it! :(
Is the only option to buy spice from the trade fleets? I'm not even... 1007 Views | 2 Replies
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by crowebird on August 23, 2011, 04:22:50 PMSo I really had no interest in this game, but it is getting quite a few good reviews, and the trailers had me interested. Did not plan on picking it up, rather I was going to wait for the price to drop, but the users on steam were talking about greenmangaming. They have some pretty sweet deals... if you buy from them and use 20SUM-MERSA-VINGS you get 20% off. Nice thing about Deus Ex is it is a steamworks game so redeemable on steam! Got the Enhanced edition for $40! 628 Views | 2 Replies
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by markE231 on August 20, 2011, 12:00:16 PMHello everyone.
Do any of you have experience of modding game files?
I'd like to mod some of the A-Train8 files - which are CSV files - but how is this done?
Any help appreciated. 733 Views | 2 Replies
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by maikl weber on July 28, 2011, 08:41:19 AMI just picked this up for $10 at Target. It's from 2006 which is usually my cutoff for games because I really like nice graphics and 3D animations. This game looks fantastic. The strategies are not too difficult. Each animal has it's needs and so on. Has a nice freeplay mode. The first slots www. olliemag. com
, according to historians, appeared in the mid... 635 Views | 3 Replies
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by MaxKos on July 22, 2011, 09:49:48 PMSometimes games are like buses, nothing for a while then along comes several. On my weekly trawl of whats new or on the way, I saw announced by Gamershell that Ubisoft and BlueByte have announced the development of a new, free, online citybuilder called Castle Empire, - Settlers Online in Europe. Its a browser based multiplayer based on the Settlers 7 artwork and is to be a strategy game with a construct of up to 70 buildings, with an economy, trade and diplomacy because... 1184 Views | 3 Replies
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by MaxKos on July 21, 2011, 06:41:54 PM Whilst thumbing through a PC Mag at the Newsagent saw in the game section that 'From Dust' will be available next week Wed July 27th on Steam for digital download - Thank goodness for that, I was wondering if I would ever buy another computer game, looking ahead for the next year, there's nothing that interests me. Games are being pumped (rushed) out, one hackneyed stereotype following another and buggy as hell. From Dust seems to be a little different from... 2116 Views | 33 Replies
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by kethean on July 18, 2011, 05:15:14 PMI've been interested in buying Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery, but I've had concerns over buying the Gold edition. I continually see a lot of issues pop up regarding its DRM and activation key problems which worry me (stopped me from biting at the gamersgate sale, in fact).
I am also aware that the box-version of DoD skips over much of its hassles as there's no problems involving activation keys and the DRM was patched out of those. As a result,... 1386 Views | 5 Replies
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by crowebird on July 17, 2011, 01:38:09 PMany one else have this game? I picked up the complete package on steam during the summer sale, and it is probably one of the most involved rts with quite the learning curve. I am still trying to get into it and learn whats on top of the entire package, but I can't wait to get even deeper into the game. With that said, playing this game with an ally (as you always compete against the AI) seems like it can make the game even better and would like to give it a try). 374 Views | 2 Replies
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by Ermaks on June 29, 2011, 09:56:54 AMHi there Just wanted to know that. Is it possible to display/show grids without having to enter in building mode? Would be of great help,indeed. Regards  1183 Views | 0 Replies
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by pad11 on June 24, 2011, 01:28:47 AMI may have said this before, but from a pure 'city builder' standpoint with graphics taken into consideration, I find this game pretty hard to top in terms of replayability. I've logged well over 200 hours on it and am back playing it again, doing the scenarios in the Venice add on for the FIRST TIME. I love this thing, and again, it makes me SAD and angry as to what they're doing w/ Anno 2700....
This thing rocks.
Pat! 1557 Views | 6 Replies
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by MaxKos on May 21, 2011, 10:29:35 AM Hurray at last there are some forthcoming game releases which come within the City Building parameter, I've been despairing of whats on offer so far - FPS + FPS + FPS (When will people get tired of these mindless, repetitive bores) and of course RPG - not as bad - but when you've trudged around the scenery, hacked and slashed and quested your life away for the umpteenth time it gets a bit, been there, done it and got the T Shirt. Are game designers ever going to use the... 2483 Views | 10 Replies
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by City Builder on May 16, 2011, 10:42:41 PMSeems the time is upon us. The witcher (according to Steam) unlocks in 11 hours. Whoot!
Just wish that I didn't have a dentist apointment tomorrow so that I could be playing.
Anybody getting this? 1513 Views | 18 Replies
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by Bruschev on April 29, 2011, 04:09:41 PMI thought instead of having a different thread per update made things a bit messy, so, everything in here I guess? I am kinda of an 'update whore', I always check everyday for updates, kind of passes time, like 1 minutes of time heh. Anyway, I will kick things off! http://notch.tumblr.com/ 6488 Views | 124 Replies
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