Arctic play will focus on the mining of methane ice by building an industrial infrastructure and as you could guess supplying the necessary heat to keep the machines working and the people alive will be your biggest and primary concern for that setting.

Are you looking forward to Anno 2205? Tell us in the comments!

XCOM 2 has been subject to a delay, but the pre-orders are live already and it seems that of all the places getting the game, Australia is once again subject to prices that are much higher than elsewhere.

The pre-order comes with a bonus in the form of the Resistance Warrior Pack that contains a number of soldier customisation options as well as a survivor of the previous game’s war turning up in the barracks as a recruit. The Steam US store has this priced at $59.99 and the UK one at £39.99. Australians however are seeing a price of $127.45 – which is the equivalent of 89.95 US dollars or £58.27. Ouch.

While this is quite the price hike, this isn’t the first time that Australia has seen much higher prices for digital games even before the introduction of a new tax on ‘intangible’ digital imports in the country’s 2015 budget pushed them even higher.

Who remember their first game of pokemon? Whether it was on the grainy black and white screen of the classic Gameboy, or in colourful 3D on the N64, pokemon is close to a lot of gamer’s hearts. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live in a world inhabited by strange and wonderful creatures, that can be tamed and used to battle your friends? Well now you can!

A new phone app allows you to search out pokemon in your local areas, and with the use of a pokeball watch, capture and battle them with people around you.

Geo-caching is not a new phenomenon. It’s a simple premise where you are given map co-ordinates and go treasure-hunting. This sort of real-world application is always open to abuse; some people may remove the treasure, or you might not live in a place where a treasure hunt has been initiated.

With #PokemonGO Plus, Trainers can play Pokémon without looking at their smartphone! pic.twitter.com/0rhN6xoDb3

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) September 10, 2015

Pokemon Go eliminates all these problems by making everything digital. Your pokemon are available in cyberspace, located over physical co-ordinates. Although details are scarce on release dates and game mechanics, I for one have never been more excited to wander round my town and collect ‘em all.

Everyone love’s a Reddit AMA, and in a recent session Frontier Developments CEO David Braben has revealed the full release of Elite Dangerous for XBOX One. The game will be coming out on October 6th, though it has been available as part of the Xbox One Game Preview program since E3 2015.

Braben also revealed that Xbox One users who were part of the preview will recieve some form of exclusive reward. No exact details were given, but he did reiterate that ships and modules will not carry over to the full release game. The monetary value of them will however, which should result in some interesting credit balances on launch day.

Elite: Dangerous is available on Xbox One and PC, with the CQC and Horizon’s updates due out within the week and later this fall, respectively.

With Cities Skylines’ new After Dark expansion on its way at the end of this month, Paradox Interactive are using their forums to keep their users up to date on what they can expect from the expansion. The third one was posted on Thursday and dealt with changes to existing systems as well as some additional content to expect.

One of the areas tweaked was that of Police and Crime. The current system made it possible to get crime low and have it stay low as long as the inhabitants of the city were happy enough, as well as citizens who were unhappy moving out of the cities instead of staying put long enough to reach the point they would turn to crime. After Dark will introduce a new crime system in which the crime rate will fluctuate a little more realistically as well as adding a new building: Prisons. These will hold convicted criminals for the length of their sentence (because as they note currently the police force in Cities are ‘never wrong or corrupted’) which will be around 15 weeks on average.

Public Transport is also getting a new building, the Bus Station. This will allow for the stopping of multiple buses in a smaller area so inhabitants can change lines quickly and easily without causing traffic foul-ups. The Taxi Cab is also being introduced as a new transport option as it was missing previously from the game. They will make tourists stay in the city a little longer, earning you more income for their stay. Another form of transport comes in the form of what Paradox are calling the largest building in-game so far, the International Airport. And to save public transport queues, it comes with a built-in metro station to connect up to a metro network and give your inhabitants an easy way to arrive and depart the airport.

Finally the cargo part of the game is getting a little overhaul to save on traffic, with a Cargo Hub being added to harbours to cut down on the long busy roads of trucks between the industry areas and the harbour for those who exported a load of goods from their cities.

As a player of this game, all of this sounds very good. Always a fan of anything that cuts down on traffic and makes transport more efficient, and a more diverse Crime system can only be fun. After Dark will release worldwide on September 24th 2015.

For more detail, check the forum post at Paradox’s forums.