Monte Cristo has today announced the release of a Christmas content pack for their city-building title, Cities XL. The new pack brings season decorations and new lightnings at night, both to solo and online cities. In addition to these changes, gamers can expect to see several interface changes, decorations, and graphical changes.

You can check out the full list of fixes and additions after the jump or head to www.citiesxl.com for more information.

From the press release:

Christmas decorations

The festive season has started in all cities and a series of
decorations are automatically added to the streets:
*  Electric decorations in the streets
*  Christmas trees in city halls' gardens and other buildings
*  A Christmas market with an animated merry-go-round
*  Santa Claus and his sledge

Night lights
When night falls on your city, streets now light up as a smooth
glowing light falls from lamp posts and headlights from cars are
turned on.

Other Changes

- ONLINE -
[OPT] The obscenity filter has been updated, with common words such
as "yellow" removed

- INTERFACE -
[NEW] New loading screens with city stats and hints
[NEW] Solo or Planet mode is now selected direclty from the
launcher, after login
[NEW] Selecting a road now allows to display routes for that
specific road (pedestrians, cars, buses, trucks...)
[OPT] The game options window has been redesigned

- SIM -
[FIX] All decoration areas now properly generate positive quality of
life (except the construction area)
[FIX] The cost of the Golden Gate bridge has been fixed for
consistency with the metal bridge

- GRAPHICS -
[NEW] Christmas decorations and surprises (temporary)
[NEW] Glowing particles for lampposts and headlights
[FIX] Level shots (Ctrl + F11) now show water properly
[FIX] Bus zebras don't show systematically on some bridges any more.

- TRAFFIC -
[OPT] Bus traffic has been improved
[OPT] Vehicles stopping at traffic lights have been improved

- PERFORMANCE -
[FIX] A crash when deleting some bus lines has been fixed