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Tycoon City New York (Review)

Mar 7, 2006

Sifting through games reviews must be depressing if you work for NYC & Company, New York's official tourism marketing organization. Max Payne, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, True Crime: New York City, The Warriors... recent years have seen a sewer-pipe tsunami of games celebrating the Big Apple's seedier side. Game developers don't seem interested in the NYC that is America's safest large city, its financial capital and a hugely popular tourist destination. The turning point might be here with the ...

Tycoon City New York (Screenshots)

Mar 6, 2006

Tycoon City New York (Review)

Mar 1, 2006

Sifting through games reviews must be a depressing activity if you work for NYC & Company, New York's official tourism marketing organisation. Max Payne, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, True Crime: New York City, The Warriors... recent years have seen a sewer-pipe tsunami of games celebrating the Big Apple's seedier (pippier?) side. Why aren't develepers more interested in the NYC that is America's safest large city, its financial capital and one of its most popular tourist destinations? We think the ...

Win! Xtreme 64 gaming laptop and Tycoon City: New York (News)

Feb 28, 2006

Tycoon City: New York was released for PC last Friday and, to celebrate its release, we've teamed up with Atari to give away a state-of-the-art Xtreme 64 gaming laptop worth around £1,500, a copy of the game and a highly desirable Atari T-shirt. Plus, 10 runners-up will each receive a copy of the game and T-shirt. Tycoon City: New York lets your entrepreneurial skills bloom in one of the greatest cities of financial opportunity in the world - New York. You'll start off as an ambitious ...

Tycoon City: New York (Preview)

Feb 15, 2006

It seldom seems to matter these days whether or not the games industry's technology is building worlds too complex for its games. Designs are drowned by details, ideas are pushed aside by economics, and the price of construction routinely undermines creativity. Except in the case of Tycoon games, however, where the building of worlds is the design. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, for example, has continued to demonstrate how both attention to intricate detail and a runaway sense of scale can combine ...

Tycoon City NY question session (Feature)

Feb 15, 2006

Due for release in the next few months, Atari's Tycoon City New York casts you as an ambitious business type looking to fill your pockets with cash and the streets of Manhattan with assets. But to anyone who's not familiar, it can look a wee bit complex. To clear the fog of confusion, we sat down for a detailed interrogation with Jon Law, lead designer and top info-giver, and got him to explain just how Tycoon City New York works. For anyone who's never played a Tycoon game, what's the ...