SimCity Intro Video Released, Space Rockets Spotted
Maxis today released the opening video for the upcoming SimCity. The video is the same one player will see upon booting up the game. The footage comes completely from in-game play and shows off several...
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SimCity Beta Starts January 25, Registration is Live
Maxis, the developer of The Sims and SimCity today announced that a beta for the upcoming SimCity will take place starting January 25. The beta will run during that weekend, closing on January 28. The...
View ArticleSimCity Coming to Classrooms With SimCityEDU
Though everyone who has played a SimCity game knows there is more to city planning than building roads, EA believes its upcoming SimCity game will be in-depth enough to teach students about civics. EA...
View ArticleNew SimCity Trailer Shows Off European Landmarks
EA and Maxis today released the latest trailer for SimCity, featuring the “European City Sets” that come with the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game. Famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben,...
View ArticleSimCity Will Have an In-Game Store
It’s been known for a while not that the upcoming SimCity will have always-on DRM, though it won’t force players to always play in multiplayer mode. That’s not ideal, and it will likely only end up...
View ArticleNew SimCity Trailer Includes Superheroes, Villains
Last month, EA and Maxis showed off the “European City Sets” that come with the $80 Digital Deluxe Edtion of the upcoming SimCity. That add-on comes with famous European landmarks (the Eiffel Tower,...
View ArticleSimCity Creators Preview New Game, Talk Sims
When Will Wright designed the first SimCity all the way back in 1989, he founded an entire genre of games. Now that he’s out of the game design business (sort of), it would be interesting to see what...
View ArticleSimCity Creator Will Wright Plays the New SimCity
Last week, EA released a video in which SimCity creator Will Wright sat down with Ocean Quigley, creative director of the new SimCity, to speak about the design decisions made on the new iteration....
View ArticleSimCity Debacle Gets The NMA Treatment
In case you haven’t heard, EA launched the latest entry in its venerated SimCity franchise last week. The story would have ended there if it was a success. Instead, the game’s always-online DRM ensured...
View ArticleEA Offers A Free Game To Those Troubled By SimCity’s Launch Woes
There’s no denying it – SimCity‘s launch was a massive failure. EA didn’t anticipate the demand, and its always-online DRM scheme failed to compensate for the massive load on the servers. It prevented...
View ArticleSim City Developers Ditch EA, Start New Studio
After the meltdown that surrounded the launch of SimCity this year, it wouldn’t come as any surprise that some Maxis developers were disheartened. The visuals of the new title were top-notch, and the...
View ArticleSimCity Might Get An Offline Mode, Mod Support Is Coming
When SimCity launched earlier this year, it became the best example yet of why always-online DRM doesn’t work. The game suffered from inconsistent performance and random log outs as a result of the...
View ArticleSimCity Is Finally Getting An Offline Mode
One of the biggest blunders of 2013 was the launch of EA’s SimCity reboot. The PC game required an always online Internet connection which the developers at Maxis claimed was due to the game using...
View ArticleSimCity Can Finally Be Played Offline
Publisher EA this week finally released a patch for SimCity that allows the game to be played offline. The feature had been requested from gamers since the game’s troubled launch. SimCity players will...
View ArticleSimCity 5 Insider's Look Shows Off Game Engine
EA made a lot of people happy at GDC this year with the announcement of a new SimCity game. The classic simulation game is being changed to reflect a larger world view with players working together...
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SimCity Revamp Gets an E3 Gameplay Trailer
After a few years of dormancy, Maxis' (via publisher EA) SimCity is coming back in a big way thanks to two new installments of the simulation so many know and love. The first, which will be available...
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SimCity Social Officially Launches On Facebook
The world of social gaming just added a behemoth to its ranks. This behemoth has a very familiar feel to it and a name that carries a ton of weight. SimCity Social is finally out and available to play...
View ArticleSimCity Gameplay Footage Walkthrough Released
It's been nearly a decade since SimCity 4 was released, and would-be city planners everywhere jumped with joy at the small amount of SimCity preview footage that was shown at this year's E3. Today,...
View ArticleNew SimCity Trailer Shows Tornadoes, Meteorites, and UFO Attacks
Two weeks ago EA released a developer preview demonstrating to gamers how the new SimCity will play. Once players get their roads, power stations, and sewers constructed, though, the real game begins....
View ArticleNew SimCity Trailer Shows Creativity and Consequences
The new SimCity is on the way, and multiplayer or not, the game promises to capture the old-school feeling of creating a city and fending off natural disasters. Mix that with the quirky style Maxis has...
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