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Mad Catz just rolled out a new line of pro flight controllers for the type of flight sim fanatics who want to be able to tinker with fuel mix and mindfully watch for warning lights while pretending to fly. More »
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City Life creator Monte Christo have just unveiled the next generation of their city-building franchise, Cities XL, which takes the city-building concept to a whole new level. Players will be able to develop their cities using a variety of architecture styles alone, but they'll also be able to create cities on persistent online planets populated with other players. You'll be able to team with others to create sprawling metropolises, visit and attend events in other players creations, or simply wander around exploring. It's a social online city building sim. It sounds absolutely glorious, and doesn't look too shabby either. This is the route SimCity should have taken, rather then releasing the ill-received SimCity Societies. Cities XL is scheduled for release in on the PC in 2009, but you can join the community at www.citiesxl.com and have a hand in creating something that could revolutionize the city building genre. More »
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Toots over at Gay Gamer points to a neat flash game called Funeral Quest. It's a take-off of business sims like Railroad Tycoon. Toots explains: More »
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Where the hell was I when Porn Manager 1 came out? Oh. Right. Not playing mobile phone games. Fortunately, I was around today when HandyGames announced the sequel to the hugely successful mobile game JeuxVideo called the "management game with a lot of various aspects." More »
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LucasArts emailed us today to tell us more about Thrillville, their upcoming theme park sim. I've never been a rollercoaster enthusiast particularly, but this bit caught my eye: More »
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The upcoming train game Rail Simulator will be the first game to exploit Philips' amBX technology, which is a system of LED lights, rumble peripherals, heat and fans. In short, it turns your room into a giant rumble pack. The press release says: More »
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Microsoft is roping in digital map maker NAVTEQ to make its forthcoming flight sim all the more realistic. Flight Simulator X will feature detailed information of water and landscape environments. Alice at Wonderland writes that NAVTEQ is used by Google Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and GPS navigation systems. Game flies into PCs this holiday season, expect a vapor-trail of terrorist fears and overreaction to follow. Brian Ashcraft More »
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In Ohokuki for the PS2, Tokiko, orphaned after her father committed suicide, enters the household of a Tokugawa Shogun. She tries to rise through the ranks, hoping to become the clan's dominant female. How? Players do things like sneak about and easedrop on conversations, collecting data cards along the way. (Boy, they love those cards in Japan.) The more cards helps raise your status. Also, things like manner are important, giving the game a very dignified feel. Think Metal Gear Solid in kimonos, minus the shooting and the alligator eating. BRIAN ASHCRAFT More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175938&view=rss&microfeed=true Tokyo game maker Frontier Groove has made its underwater 3D aquarium game AQUAZONE for computer gamers and cell phoners. And now add the 360 to that list. The console version boasts 14 type of fish, including that one from Finding Nemo. Think of it as your own personal HD fish thank, but without minus the algae scrubbing. —Brian Ashcraft More »
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Party girl Bijou Philips *hearts* Will Wright's games. The friend of Paris Hilton and hippy rock spawn, Philips told Stuff Magazine that she sims for kicks. "I play The Sims. I've gotten every single expansion pack for The Sims 2, and I'm obsessed," says the former model, who started snorting coke in her early teens. "I sit online for hours downloading wallpapers and crystal spray paint - I just go nuts. I can sit and design houses and make families forever. I'd rather do that than anything else." Sure beats rehab. More »
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We all know sue-happy Tom Cruise is easy to piss off. So, we're going to retract our original assumption that this fan-made Sim is in fact Tom. It's not. And we'll go one better by saying the closeted star's brainwashed wife Katie Holmes was really pregnant and actually delivered their new baby girl. We love you Tom and believe every wacko thing you say. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168132&view=rss&microfeed=true There's one thought that goes through the mind of every gamer who watches Desperate Housewives: "They should make a game out of this!" Buena Vista games is doing that very thing, although unfortunately it's not a FPS. From the sound of the press release, it's a sim of sorts. More »
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Train simulation games have quite a following in Japan. In fact, Game Watch Impress lists two sims coming to the PSP. One of them is the Osaka-based Densha De Go! and the Tokyo Mobile Train Simulator. As much as I'm tempted to pick up Densha De Go! (I'm a sucker for titles with exclamation points), Mobile Train Simulator offers pre-order customers a pair of white station master gloves. And yes, I realize there is only one in the picture above. More »
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