By Joey Davidson |
EA and Maxis have announced the release date and some details for the Mac version of SimCity, the game that brought a lot of frustration and joy to gamers when it hit PCs nearly a month ago. Here’s the full announcement from EA and Maxis as…
By Joey Davidson |
This is big. Really big. A source at Maxis has come out and said that SimCity does not require server-side computations to run. If it’s true, this Maxis source has demonstrated that EA’s marketing team has been lying to its customers. Let’s play a quick round…
By Joey Davidson |
Maxis and EA have rebooted a classic and epic city management game with their brand new effort. Simply called SimCity, this title is a collection of old gaming principles and new gaming ideas. Some of it works really well, some of it feels like a…
By Eric Frederiksen |
SimCity sucks right now. The problems with the service surrounding the game are so great that they overwhelm anything the game itself has to offer. It’s hard to enjoy a game you can’t even boot up. To add insult to injury, Origin thinks you’re playing the…
By Joey Davidson |
Welcome to the 21st official episode of Tech on the Range.Your hosts for this week’s show are Sean Aune and Joey Davidson. You can find us each on Twitter. Sean Aune - @seanaune Joey Davidson – @JoeyDavidson This week’s topic is “The Anatomy of a Botched Game…
By Brandon Russell |
The way things are going, SimCity’s struggles will last indefinitely as its launch further edges into a nebulous swamp. Following a catastrophic first few days marred by server issues and stripped features, outlets are now refusing to sell the title outright until things are fixed.…
By Joey Davidson |
The headline that ran across this piece when I was moving through my rough draft read “Always-On DRM Should Throw Itself Off a Tall Bridge into a Craggy Ravine Filled with Broken Bottles and Shattered Dreams.” It was a little long, so I was forced…
By Joey Davidson |
The brand new version of SimCity is less than 24 hours from launching for the PC platform. Maxis and EA have released their first tutorial video for the game in preperation for the flood of new city mayors. This time, they’re focusing specifically on road…
By Joey Davidson |
With the launch of the brand new SimCity looming large, EA and Maxis have their marketing machine all fired up. Their current promotion is LetsAllBeMayor.com. Basically, fans vote on themes for each city on each day. Over a week long period, EA and Maxis bring those…
By Joey Davidson |
Maxis and EA have announced a brand new closed beta for SimCity. Registration closes on February 11th, and the closed beta begins on February 16th at 6am Pacific and will last exactly 24 hours. The second closed beta will feature tweaks and improvements based on the…
By Joey Davidson |
If you’re looking to pony up the scratch for the new SimCity that hits this spring, you have a decision to make. Do you go for the standard version? Or, do you pre-order on Origin and go for the Digital Deluxe Edition. The new trailer from…
By Eric Frederiksen |
The last few years have seen a number of revivals of beloved franchises: X-COM, Deus Ex, and Max Payne are only a few. Some of them went well; X-COM was loved by fans old and new, while Syndicate was panned across the board. The latest…
By Joey Davidson |
Here’s a look at the new SimCity that checks in at more than six minutes in length and focuses on things like gambling, community and crime. Lead Designer Stone Librande is the voice behind the lengthy gameplay demo for the upcoming SimCity you see at the head…
By Joey Davidson |
If you’ve marked you calendars in early February of next year for Maxis’ brand new SimCity, I hope you did so in pencil. Or, maybe, that you don’t care about scratch marks on your calendars. If you even use calendars. Does anyone use print calendars…
By Joey Davidson |
Last Tuesday, Maxis held a special broadcast for their currently in development Sims games. Among the roster of projects featured was the upcoming SimCity currently set to launch in 2013. Over the weekend, Maxis elected to put the SimCity portion of the live demo up on their YouTube channel…
By Joey Davidson |
When SimCity Social released for Facebook over the summer, I had this glimmer of hope that it would be a small foray into the city simulation genre that I’ve missed so much. I was wrong, it was another click-and-share-a-thon. It made me sad, and it really…
By Joey Davidson |
I was tricked by the brand. I’ll be completely honest, here: I’m not normally an advocate of Facebook games. Aside from PopCap (they make good stuff, I promise), I’ve never had much luck when it comes to the world of social gaming. It’s companies like…
By Joey Davidson |
You want to play the upcoming SimCity on your laptop from the backseat of a car during a long road trip, eh? Well, as it comes from the folks at Joystiq and Lead Designer Stone Librande, you’ll need to do so while connected to the Internet. SimCity is an…
By Joey Davidson |
I’ll come clean here and now: I used to be addicted to SimCity. I never got into The Sims, the people-driving offshoot from Maxis’ main series. But, man, I was huge into SimCity. My love for the franchise started, oddly enough, with one of its…
