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 ...

Eight months after the disastrous launch of "SimCity" that many irate players attributed to the game's nonsensical always-online requirement, publisher Electronic Arts and developer Maxis are now ...

SimCity. There’s something powerful in Maxis’ decision to re-purpose the name of the inaugural game in its classic series for the freshly released reboot. It carries an implied declaration: this is ...

Call it SimCity 5, call it SimCity 2013, call it anything you like. It’s the original city simulation game, and it’s back for its first major instalment in ten years. But what’s it actually like? It’s ...

The Vietnamese food helped. Steaming soups and noodles that really got the juices flowing. In the last days of SimCity 4’s development, back around the turn of the century, Maxis game designer Ocean ...

Ever since I was young, I've been playing SimCity. I first started playing the original version in the early Nineties, and then graduated to SimCity 2000. I then jumped ahead much later to SimCity 4, ...

A new expansion pack for the city simulation game surrounds players with futuristic technologies. But even in the future, one thing never changes: human nature. In SimCity designer Stone Librande’s ...

The day Mariina Hallikainen received a communique detailing first day sales stats for Cities: Skylines, she was very happy. Most game genres have a progenitor, a "first" that sets the wheels in motion ...

The new SimCity is bustling like never before. You’ll notice the difference right away—unlike previous versions of the hit computer game, this one is actually ...

SimCity is a visually striking homage to a classic series that takes city building in bold new directions, but troubling business decisions and technical snafus spell trouble. Building a city is hard ...

With EA busy polishing a hot turd instead of rejoicing at a true SimCity successor, I guess it was only a matter of time before someone else decided to take the lead. Last week I got a brief look at ...

When you begin a new game in SimCity, you have to place your city within the region and the world in which it's located. This facilitates better interaction with other cities, but comes with its share ...