From Will To Real…

Hype, Trust and Disappointment

Posted by Philippe Da Silva on Sunday, November 16th, 2008

When you browse some big game related news websites over the world such as IGN, Game Spot, Edge Magazine or Jeuxvideo.com, you notice that players are always looking for the next big game seeking it like a miner is desperately looking for gold or diamonds. I asked myself why such behavior seems to spread and [...]

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First Cities XL Beta week end

Sunday, June 21st, 2009 - CITIES XL

Finally, last week we get to this important milestone: thousands of players have now access to the beta and I was so happy and anxious about it that I just forgot updating my blog this whole time
The first week end is a very important step as we will get the very first impressions [...]

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Point, Shoot and Win!

Monday, December 29th, 2008 - Blogging

This entry isn’t about the recent contest we ran over at the CITIES XL website where we asked our fellow members to submit pictures of their city hall and vote for the 3 best ones to see them modelled into the game… But rather a late one on the great afternoon we took with the [...]

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The Sounds of San Francisco

Monday, December 15th, 2008 - Travel

So I’m back from my December US tour with Jérome.
It all went very well and I had the opportunity to meet very interesting people from many different areas. The near future should bring you some new previews about CITIES XL but not necessarly from the press you would usually expect to see such articles [...]

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I got mine!

Sunday, December 7th, 2008 - Blogging

As some of you probably know, I’m a Mac late adopter: earlier this year, I bought a MacBook Pro 15″ and I’m more than satisfied with it!
Since then, I’ve been wondering for the iPhone but I didn’t want to get one until I could have access to my office Microsoft Exchange account.
And the iPhone [...]

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Win an iPod Touch for Christmas!

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 - CITIES XL

On December the 1st, we launched a new contest: the CITIES XL Advent Calendar!
Click here now to participate!
With Christmas coming, we wanted to create some animation on the website and at the same time reward our website visitors through some entertainment. The idea is really simple: you just have to scratch a card and [...]

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