Even before its disastrous launch in March of last year, it was obvious to Maxis that many SimCity fans weren’t going to be happy with its online-only design, even once the servers were stabilized.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The core of the problem is this: SimCity requires you to be permanently connected to the Internet, and data is constantly being passed between your ...

with all the talk of simcity 4, and after playing it a bit, i realized something.<BR><BR>The next simcity, i give it 6-12 months will be simcity online. SC4 is a test.<BR>reasons you ask?<BR><BR>1.

The SimCity launch saga is well into its second week, and Electronic Arts added another chapter today with a note to fans on its company website. In an update titled "Straight Answers from Lucy," ...

In an unsurprising but wholly satisfying twist, it turns out that EA and Maxis were lying about SimCity's always-online server requirements. According to a developer who worked on SimCity and has very ...

The need for a constant internet connection to play the new SimCity has been criticised by many to the extent where some people have even developed mods that allow you to play it offline. However, ...

When a publisher launches a big game, it wants to gain the maximum exposure at every possible opportunity. The first reveal, the preview events, the reviews — each of these is a chance to point the ...

The video game publisher and “SimCity” developer Maxis unveiled plans to resurrect the 23-year-old metropolis-building franchise during a presentation Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference. “I ...

Following word that SimCity will no longer require an Internet connection to function, lead engineer Simon Fox has posted a lengthy explanation of why it took so long for developer Maxis to strip out ...

While SimCity is best remembered on the PC front (or perhaps the Super Nintendo, since there was a great port for that system), at one point there was a version made for the Nintendo Entertainment ...

Jason Baker was studying political science at UC Davis when he got his hands on “SimCity.” He took a careful approach to the computer game. “I was not one of the players who enjoyed Godzilla running ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Finally. After months of demands, the long-awaited Update 10 for SimCity has made the city-building simulation available for offline play. Still, it's ...