I spent a good part of the winter obsessing over Tilted Mill’s Children of the Nile. It was the perfect little city builder, and coming from some former Impressions developers, was everything I expected and more.

Most of the critical responce was more tepid than my own, but the game seemed to be received well enough for Tilted Mill to keep in business. Still, there is no word of either a new game on the way or an expansion or sequel for Chidren of the Nile.

Meanwhile, it looks like Deep Silver will beat them to the Roman punch with Heart of Empire: Rome, a very pretty city builder being developed by deepRed. IGN has a lot of screenshots and a nice E3 preview here.