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A Pixelated View mourns the closure of Maxis and takes aim at exploitative publishers in the game industry.

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So Electronic Arts has shut down Maxis and, really, should we be surprised? Given EAs track record, its never truly shocking (though it IS always sad) to see it kill off one of its acquisitions. Even so, theres more to EAs behavior than simply buying studios and snapping their necks. Theres a pattern of degradation at play as the Unicron of videogames strips its victims bare, and tosses out the husks.

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On this weeks show, the death of Maxis Studios, what does this mean for The Sims and SimCity? Metal Gear Solid V has a release date with details on the Collectors Edition. Plus a roundup of #GDC2015 news, including details on two new/improved engines, Source 2 and Unreal Engine 4; as well as details on the Unreal Tournament alpha that was playable at the show. Theres a chunk of MMO news, where Dan dispels WOW rumours about the game going free to play and explains whats really going on. Would you believe theres copyright infringement on Kickstarter from a Harry Potter game? And Dan and Nik share a story about tigers and rhinos in Far Cry 4.

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Following EAs closure of the main Maxis studio last week, a former SimCity developer there has come forward to talk about their experiences working with EA to bring the new SimCity to life.

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This is how the game looks like on a Geforce Nvidia GTX 970 card on max settings the game runs 60 FPS on action scenes it dips down to 57 FPS overall the gameplay runes smooth with little hiccups.

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TwoDashStash: "Maxis was founded in 1987 by Will Wright and Jeff Braun to publish SimCity, a game which struggled to garner interest from established publishers due to it lacking any defined win or loss conditions. Despite this, the game went on to become a massive hit with over a million sales worldwide. The success of the first SimCity game lead to multiple spinoff projects, including titles such as the obscure SimRefinery which was commissioned by Chevron and the more familiar SimTower."

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DSOGaming writes: "Reddits member vertexnormal who is a former Maxis developer has talked a bit about the closure of Maxis Emeryville, and shed some additional light to it. According to vertexnormal, Maxis Emeryville was closed because the SimCity series was it suffered from The Sims huge success. And even though the older SimCity games made a profit, they were not even close to what The Sims had achieved."

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This is it! The 50th episode of The Gamers Lounge Podcast! This week the guys talk about Phil Harrison Resigning, Maxis is no more, Metal Gear Solid 5, VR everywhere, Batman rated M, Dragonball, the 50th episode giveaway and more!