Building a Vision of Sim City 5

Rejoice budding architects, city planners and civil servants. Your roles in town planning and city management will once again be glorified in video game format as Maxis has just let it be known that they are working on Sim City 5. The previous version of the city builder, Sim City 4, was released eons ago and the new title will be upgraded for a new generation.

Multiplayer mode is sure to make Sim City 5 a new and exciting proposition.

Most exciting of these new features is the multi-player mode. Now you can team up with a total of 12 people, each player managing their own city in the region. Decisions and choices made by every member will directly and indirectly impact their neighbors. The added level of complexity is something we cannot wait to try out.

Additionally, it is rumored that players will actually be able to construct curved roads this time around! The idea is so blasphemous and intriguing at the same time that we cannot actually form an opinion. Sim City veterans will be familiar with the order and structure offered by the straight line roads of prior titles and should share out sentiments.

The game is supposed to be out next year, so there is still some time to go before we can test Sim City 5 out. In the mean time this trailer and concept art will have to suffice.

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Capcom Takes Onimusha to the Broswer

The last Onimusha game came out way back in 2006. Capcom always has better things to do seeing that their gaming franchises include Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Devil May Cry. As the latter group of titles get frequent releases and development, it is not hard to imagine that Capcom has their hands full and is unable to devote any time to their other intellectual property.

However, there may be a way around this predicament. Rather than work on another full scale installment of Onimusha, Capcom will be using it to venture into the browser gaming market segment. The developers are looking to release Onimusha Souls, a browser game for both the PC and the smartphone. The game is expected to show up on 28th June 2012.

The game will mine the Sengoku era of Japan for its story, also used as the narrative bedrock by games such as Shogun 2, and players will assume the role of a daimyo as they compete with other regions. You can expect similar mystery solving gameplay as the previous titles to boot.

The move may be an interesting way to tap in to fringe fan bases. Every gamer has a title they love which for one reason or the other gets neglected by developers. The browser game format might actually represent an easy way for developers to satisfy gamers and the process is sure to not be as taxing as working on a full blown console and PC version.

Capcom has previously dabbled with the social and casual game segment with Smurf’s Village to great success. With smartphones being adopted like hotcakes and gamers being connected 24/7 a browser game seems like a smart way to monetize the neglected Onimusha franchise.

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Zoomumba

ZooMumba is a 2D Browser MMO where players will manage their own zoo full of exotic animals from around the world.

Zoomumba is a basic management game like we've all played before. You start building your zoo and earning funds but you must build your zoo bigger to bring in more people to get more money, but the more people that come the harder it is to manage, keeping all the animals and people happy.


Like a famerama and other bigpoint games you can also interact with other players. In my opnion this is a great game for all the family to play with challanges and levels to pass it keeps you entertained.

The best thing about this free browser game is that it is a browser game so there is no download, updates and events are regular and it always stays interesting.

I would reccomend zoomumba to all ages and i know it looks like a little kids game but trust me it stays entertaining for all ages and it's more fun then playing farmville.

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