Added: 12.03.2015 11:18 | 17 views | 0 comments


"For this week Tuesday, March 10th, Paradox Interactive's Cities: Skylines released on Steam for $29.99. That's not a very big price to pay when you consider similar titles such as 2013's release of SimCity is at Triple-A pricing."

Added: 10.03.2015 20:18 | 23 views | 0 comments


City building games are in relatively high demand at the moment since SimCity came out a couple of years ago. So when the Colossal Order, the makers of Cities in Motion (CIM) and CIM2, said they were making a fully fledged city builder it was deemed a clear challenger to SimCity but many believed they had a colossal task on their hands having only nine staff members at the time. Oh boy didnt they do well.

Added: 09.03.2015 7:18 | 35 views | 0 comments


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.

Added: 07.03.2015 9:19 | 26 views | 0 comments


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."

Added: 06.03.2015 2:09 | 20 views | 0 comments


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."

Added: 05.03.2015 0:39 | 14 views | 0 comments



Electronic Arts is shuttering the windows on one of its most well-known development studios. Maxis, the developer behind SimCity and Spore, has pulled the plug on its Emeryville location. Don't worry, though. SimCity lives on.

Added: 04.03.2015 21:10 | 21 views | 0 comments


seen in previous games, prompting worries that they would be added back in the form of paid expansion packs.

Maxis was originally founded in 1987 by Will Wright before being acquired by EA a decade later. It has since expanded to become one of EA's major development labels, with development of The Sims series being spun out to a dedicated division, The Sims Studio.

Added: 04.03.2015 21:10 | 15 views | 0 comments


seen in previous games, prompting worries that they would be added back in the form of paid expansion packs.

Maxis was originally founded in 1987 by Will Wright before being acquired by EA a decade later. It has since expanded to become one of EA's major development labels, with development of The Sims series being spun out to a dedicated division, The Sims Studio.