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 ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. A lot has changed since 1989, not least of which is SimCity. The ...

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 ...

SimCity, the new edition of Will Wright, Maxis, and Electronic Arts’ foundational simulation series, has overcome some of its growing pains over the past couple of weeks. Players can at least connect ...

Screenshot of our own SimCity (called, for reasons that made sense at the time, We Are The Champignons) after three hours of game play. A few weeks before the launch, Venue had the opportunity to play ...

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 ...

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 ...

City builders have been a popular genre since the earliest days of PC gaming, with classic titles like SimCity allowing players to realize their most epic God complexes in whatever way they see fit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. After years of banking on the success of the immensely popular The ...