Electronic Arts today announced that the SimCity Cities of Tomorrow expansion pack is currently in development for Mac and PC and will be arriving November 15. Built upon the foundation of the ultimate city building simulation that has more than 2 million players worldwide, SimCity Cities of Tomorrow gives players the ability to transform their cities as they take them on a journey 50 years into the future. Using new technologies and experimental urban planning techniques, mayors will shape the destinies of their cities, thriving in a utopia of clean technologies, or a dystopia of hyper-commercialism. Continue reading SimCity Cities of Tomorrow Expansion Pack Announced, First Screenshots →

Electronic Arts and Maxis have released a new update for SimCity. This patch comes with performance improvements for low-end PC systems, improvements to the game’s traffic, and the addition of a new server for Asia. And no, there isn’t any offline mode in case you’ve been wondering. This update will be auto-downloaded next time you run the game and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading SimCity – Update 1.7 Released – Improves Traffic & Performance On Low Spec Systems →

Ah, the power of modders. Yesterday, we informed you about the opinion of Maxis’ insider regarding a possible offline mode for SimCity. Fast forward and here we are today with a modder, playing the game in offline mode for more than 20 minutes, and without having any crashing issues. YouTube’s member ‘UKAzzer’ has showcased SimCity in offline, though some debug features were disabled (as the modder didn’t have an actual developer’s build. Still, a few things did work – including editing the main highways anywhere – proving that an Offline patch for SimCity wouldn’t take much time or trouble. Continue reading Success: SimCity running in offline mode thanks to a mod →

And the SimCity fiasco keeps going on and on. A couple of days ago, Maxis’ studio head, Lucy Bradshaw, said that an offline mode for SimCity was not possible at the moment and that it would take a significant amount of engineering work from our team to rewrite the game for single player. That was a bunch of crap, and that’s why we did not inform you about this. And it seems we were right, as a Maxis insider told RPS that SimCity can run in offline mode and that a patch wouldn’t take very much engineering. Continue reading Maxis Insider – SimCity Can Run In Offline Mode Without Much Effort →

Before starting this article, let me tell you that we’ve seen such behaviors in the past on various boards. However, it’s really funny when a developer – that does not reveal his or her true identity – tries to damage control with an anonymous account on either a gaming website or a gaming board/forum. NeoGAF’s member ‘GlassBox’ attempted such a thing and got banned for trying to ‘distort the news aggregate‘ all without actually disclosing to anyone there that he or she works for the ‘company in question.’ Continue reading EA/Maxis employee gets banned on NeoGAF for ‘attempting to distort the news aggregate’ →

Electronic Arts has made an announcement yesterday regarding SimCity’s current state, and although the company avoided to discuss whether it will remove its always-online DRM system, the big publisher revealed that all SimCity owners – who have suffered from those infamous server issues – will get a free PC game on March 18th. Continue reading Electronic Arts will give out a free PC game to all SimCity owners →

Man, what a disastrous launch that was. And ironically, things are going from bad to worse as after the launch day issues that SimCity players faced, EA has managed to F’ things up even more. In order to offer better stability, EA removed the Cheetah mode of SimCity and as you may have expected, a lot of PC gamers got angry with that decision. Funny thing is that things did not improve and EA’s servers went down once again. Continue reading SimCity Is Going Down, Server Issues Still Present, Amazon Removes Product, EA Suspends Marketing →