Just in case you needed a reminder that always online requirements are a bad thing: EA’s Darkspore was removed from Steam this past weekend due to a game breaking, server side bug that rendered the game unplayable.
Ah yes, the old we hate the game yet still bought it routine. Despite all the anger over its ill received launch, SimCity made over $1 Million in sales in only two weeks. This may come as a shock, especially if you’ve read a review of …
Tornadoes and earthquakes are no longer the worst disasters associated with SimCity: the latest game in Maxis’ long running city management series was rendered unplayable when the game’s servers couldn’t handle the flood of players trying to log-in upon game’s launch. SimCity requires players to be …
While everyone seems to sort of agree that this year’s E3 was fairly lacking of any epic announcements, that doesn’t mean everyone had a bad time. Say what you will about the rest of E3, but for the SimCity reboot, it was a good week. This …
Many people thought that the decision to require an internet connect in order to play SimCity was done so in an effort to avoid piracy, and it does, but apparently there was another reason as well. According to Jason Haber, Maxis employee and producer on SimCity, …
Sim City is finally back and Maxis is finally putting effort into something that isn’t The Sims, which is becoming a tired franchise. They are revitalizing the series with a brand new engine that is going to revolutionize the genre, or so it seems.
Maxis studios finally unveiled the fifth entry into the long-running, city building-simulation at GDC. The game, simply titled SimCity, has been built from the ground up to make the experience more modern and robust. I suspect the The Sims is to blame for us only hearing …
EA is innovating their immensely popular Sims series once more with The Sims Medieval. The following is an excerpt from their official press release. “Go back in time and get medieval! The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. today announced The Sims(TM) Medieval, a new …
