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.

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.

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 ...

SimCity requires an always-on internet connection because the game was built with multiplayer and social features in mind, according to Maxis boss Lucy Bradshaw. The studio executive addressed the ...

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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...