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Earlier today dasilva dropped by in our Shoutbox and left us a gift (click for larger):

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A new blog by developer David has been posted on the official Cities Unlimited homepage. The article focuses on “Citizen Profiles”. Those profiles are the way Monte Cristo plans on modelling social interaction between different social groups within the game:
citizens will have a set of objective parameters that express who they are and what kinds […]

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In a new CUplanet.com blog entry , Monte Cristo’s lead artist Florent talks about the day and night cycle of Cities Unlimited. The new update includes a nice little video featuring the screenshot MC posted a couple of weeks ago. This time it’s the same scene, but shot during the day, from the first […]

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To celebrate the new year, Philippe posted a new Cities Unlimited screenshot on Cuplanet.com. It shows a low view over a medium sized city with some impressive snow covered mountains in the background. I am still amazed by the detail of the buildings and the light. The shadows are […]

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Monte Cristo updated their blog today with a post about roads. Nicolas, the lead programmer of the simulation part of the game, who wrote the update, talks about how they want the roads in Cities Unlimited to look like and to function. He confirms curved roads, just like in City Life and a great looking […]

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Forumer The Monkeys Uncle pointed us to the news that Monte Cristo’s City Life 2008 has gone gold! On his blog Monte Cristo employee Philippe Dasilva states that a complete DVD version of the game should cost €29.99 (no word whether that translates to $29.99 or $41.99 yet). Good news for owners of a previous […]

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Philippe Da Silva and Dirk of Simtropolis caught up with one another to discuss the progress of Monte Cristo’s upcoming Cities Unlimited and to share a few screenshots.
Two screenshots were included which show the method players will use to select the region of the world in which to locate a new city. The two also […]

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Simphoni has among the first screenshots of Cities Unlimited

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Want to have your ideas heard by the Cities Unlimited development team? Monte Cristo’s Philippe Da Silva (who is a regular poster here) is creating the Cities Unlimited official website, and he’s posted a request for some ideas. He wants to know how we would like the team to interact with us in […]

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Simphoni has had the opportunity to interview Phillipe Da Silva, Internet Director of Monte Cristo Games, developers of Cities Unlimited, a “sequel” to City Life.

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