What's that you say? You don't have enough expansions for Cities: Skylines? Don't worry, here's another.

On October 23rd, Cities: Skylines will be receiving a new DLC expansion called Industries, which - you guessed it - allows players to take a more in-depth approach to how they manage industrial areas in their cities.

According to the press release, Industries' new features include specialised buildings and the ability to manage the production chain "from raw material extraction up to final end product". You can also "manage traffic and logistics with industry warehouses and the use of the new cargo services," such as a cargo airport.

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EA has added another helping of non-EA games to its PC subscription service Origin Access, including popular construction sim Cities: Skylines and beautiful adventure puzzler Rime.

The well-received Darksiders: Warmastered Edition is also now included, as are indie games Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, Mad Games Tycoon, "action-explorer" Jotun, "chaotic side scroller" Ghost 1.0 and role-player Crashlands.

There's some delightful irony in Cities: Skylines now being part of EA's subscription offering - after the indie game bettered the publisher's own, much-maligned Sim City several years back.

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Paradox is getting into the business of making board games via Kickstarter.

The Swedish publisher, known for its grand strategy video games on PC, is working on tabletop versions of four of its biggest titles: Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron and Cities: Skylines.

The first game to be made is the Crusader Kings board game, which is designed and published with Free League Publishing (Mutant Year Zero and Tales from the Loop RPG). In the medieval-set game, players compete for military, religious and political power while keeping their personal dynasty strong using cards and miniatures.

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Cities Skylines' next expansion, Parklife, will launch for PC and Mac on May 24th, publisher Paradox Interactive has announced, and will introduce customisable theme parks, zoos, nature reserves, and more.

Parklife's main focus is on providing the facilities to transform your city's boring, empty patches of land into bustling tourist attractions. To that end, it introduces the new park area tool, used to create park districts which can be fully customised with new buildings and props.

You'll be able to use paths to create specific routes for your visitors to travel, and then set ticket prices for walking and sightseeing tours, helping to enhance tourism.

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Xbox Game Pass will add Cities: Skylines to its line-up next month.

The sandbox city sim is set to become part of the Xbox Games Pass catalogue on 11th April, alongside seven other games - all of which are indies.

It's good timing for Cities: Skylines, which recently added mods to its Xbox One edition designed by community members.

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Splendid city builder Cities: Skylines is currently free to play on Steam, and will remain so until Sunday, February 11th.

Cities: Skylines first rose to fame following the disastrous release of Maxis' SimCity reboot in 2013. That game was plagued with issues both technical and systemic, drawing the ire of long-time genre fans. When Cities: Skylines arrived in 2015, it was everything that SimCity wasn't, offering a feature-rich, offline city builder, with genuine infrastructure depth.

Since its PC release, Cities: Skylines has been ported to Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and has received five major expansions - adding the likes of nightlife, natural disasters, mass transit, and winter weather. It's been fleshed out further with a broad selection of smaller offerings, ranging from new buildings to soundtrack packs.

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