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Platform Win, Mac Publisher Electronic Arts Developer Maxis Release Date Mar 5, 2013

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SimCity review: engineering addiction

By Russ Pitts on Mar 04, 2013 03.04.13

Later, when the zombies came, I wished they'd done more damage

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The ideology hiding in SimCity’s black box

By Clayton Ashley on Apr 01, 2021 04.01.21

Did Urban Dynamics do more than just inspire SimCity?

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SimCity 2013's creative director explains what went right and what went so, so wrong

By Samit Sarkar on May 20, 2016 05.20.16

Maxis' 2013 reboot of the SimCity franchise will always be remembered for its disastrous launch more than anything else. But now, more than three years removed from that debacle, SimCity creative...

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Maxis boss Lucy Bradshaw leaves EA, studio being brought under EA's mobile division

By Samit Sarkar on Sep 24, 2015 09.24.15

Electronic Arts is reshuffling the remnants of Maxis in an organizational shake-up, with Maxis senior vice president Lucy Bradshaw departing as the studio is combined with EA's mobile division, EA a...

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EA is having a big sale on Origin, including Battlefield 3 for 99 cents

By Michael McWhertor on Dec 23, 2014 12.23.14

Electronic Arts is holding a holiday season sale on Origin PC games, including deals on Dragon Age: Inquisition, Titanfall, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare and FIFA 15. One of the best deals may...

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SimCity's offline mode now available (update)

By Samit Sarkar on Mar 18, 2014 03.18.14

SimCity's servers are currently down for maintenance because developer EA Maxis is patching the city-building title to add the long-awaited offline mode, according to a post on the game's forums. T...

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SimCity's offline mode required more than six months of rework, Maxis says

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 14, 2014 01.14.14

Rebuilding SimCity to work offline took more than six months of development, according to single player mode lead engineer Simon Fox and rewriting "core parts of the game" to make the...

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Friends List: Will offline mode save SimCity?

By D. M. Moore on Jan 13, 2014 01.13.14

At first they said they had no intention of adding it, and that it wasn't apart of the experience. But now, after almost a year, it's finally coming... Wait, did you think I was talking about S...

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EA adding offline mode to SimCity

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 13, 2014 01.13.14

SimCity will soon be playable in offline mode, developer EA Maxis announced this week, 10 months after saying it couldn't be done "without a significant amount of engineering work." The studio...

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SimCity modding rules detailed by Maxis

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 12, 2014 01.12.14

SimCity modders cannot sell their content, affect multiplayer features or modify executable files when creating new content, Maxis announced via the game's website. According to the post,...

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SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow intro video dissects the city of the future

By John Funk on Nov 05, 2013 11.05.13

The intro trailer for SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow goes over some of the parts of a successful future city. On the one hand, the city of tomorrow must contain an Academy, which researches advanced...