Cities XL sets a new benchmark in the city-builder game category by fusing for the first time, the city builder genre with an MMO. Offline, it offers all the benefits of the leading city builders, through the creation and development of a photorealistic city in which managing your resources and population categories, will be essential to success. Online, it proposes an entirely new layer to the experience in allowing the players to trade resources with others, participate to the construction of Mega structures or visit the entire planet via your avatar.

The Secrets of Color DVD series addresses powerful design tools that every artist needs to understand to consistently create beautiful, heartfelt paintings. Whether you are a beginner or seasoned painter, these DVDs help clarify and refresh your artistic vision, and bring new excitement to your work.

Wine For Dummies, the visual companion to the acclaimed book with more the 500,000 copies in print, is an accessible, unpretentious "wine lover’s bible" that opens up the world of wine to anyone. Like the best selling book, the DVD version of Wine For Dummies is an entertaining and informative look at the increasingly popular world of wine. Having an interest in wine is only the first step; Wine For Dummies gives consumers all knowledge and confidence they need to enjoy a wine experience in any setting.

Skateboarding Explained is a walkthrough DVD for beginner or intermediate skateboarders to learn the basics of skating, and all the tricks you need to know to be a truly intermediate, competent skater. This video takes the time to really teach the basics of skating (basics that anyone of any level could really use), and the style is such that any skater of any age (even adults!) should feel comfortable with it. You can watch the whole series of instructions in order, or go straight to the section or trick that you want to learn about.

The Woodsmith Shop television show is designed to help you get the most out of your woodworking shop. Each episode is a fast-paced, lively presentation of the tips and techniques of woodworking. Whether viewers are just starting out or have been woodworking for years, they’ll find something new in every episode to get them interested in woodworking, or to apply to their next project.

In every episode, host Don Peschke, founding editor of Woodsmith magazine, leads a cast of editors as they explore a wide range of tips, tools, jigs and fixtures, techniques, and projects. The cast members are both experienced woodworkers and editors of Woodsmith magazine, and eagerly share their expertise in the techniques segments, along with helpful opinions in the roundtable discussions throughout each episode.

Master Guitarist Oliver Gannon is your teacher in these multimedia software programs that illustrate basic guitar skills and theory. Specifically designed for the beginner guitar student the Guitar Master Class Series helps develop skills on its own or as a valuable addition to any existing course of study. You'll be playing your first songs after just a few short lessons!

In this series of lessons we'll learn how to bring in multiple 3D render passes and composite the resulting image on top of a photograph using many tools and techniques. We'll begin this project by importing our layers and assembling them into a nice render of a car. We'll then learn how to create an advanced matte to cut out our car using the shadow, indirect, and matte layers. We'll then learn several compositing tricks to help us really blend the foreground and background, such as Reflection matching, Lightwraping, color correction and grain matching.

Presented in Bob Ross' own warm and patient style, this 3-hour video workshop graphically answers all of the questions you've been asking about the "wet-on-wet" technique. Bob covers, in great detail, the basics of Skies, Mountains, Trees, Water, reflections etc… In the final segment of this video, Bob helps you "assemble" all of the component parts into a finished painting. In the process, he anticipates the problems which you are most likely to encounter and provides you with clear, understandable solutions.

Clear your schedules for this eagerly anticipated epic 5hr 50min release from Sonic Academy. In this comprehensive 37 video tutorial, we take you through the full process of creating a Progressive House track as made famous by Daniel Portman and Jerome Isma-Ae. We walk you through all the steps from creating beats and synth sounds to mixing, arrangement and mastering and show you from start to finish how to make a prog monster.

In this course we show you how to get to grips with the concepts of chords. Whether you're making house, trance, hip hop or techno chords are an integral part of most popular music. We will show you how to construct chords and how to use them within your music.

Get to grips with the awesome world of Music Theory using our Beginners Guide to Music Theory course. In this first installment we kick things off with an in depth look at the basics of Rhythm.

Whether one is producing music, podcasts, game sounds, or film sound effects, Digital Audio Principles provides the tips and techniques that will make the project a success. Author Dave Schroeder explains the basics of digital audio production techniques and covers the essential hardware and software. He also discusses sound theory, frequency response, the range of human hearing, and dynamic range.

Have Ableton Live? Like Electronic Music? Then you must see this inspiring collection of eye-opening tutorials from Ableton Certified Trainer Craig McCullough. This series reveals the steps to design fat, brilliant modern and classic electronic drum sounds that will make the rhythm tracks in your electronic music productions be noticed.

Transform your beats into a hard hitting techno sound in this How To Make Techno course for Ableton Live 8. You will be shown from the ground up how to create a driving techno drum kit using toms and distorted kick samples.. followed by synth programming and finishing up with arrangement & FX.

Learn how to produce the next big room techno classic in our How To Make Techno in Reason 4. Learn everything from programming massive sub bass throbs, bleepy synths and distorted percussion through to full arrangement, FX and loads of other large, banging techno tips and tricks.