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Welcome to Lovely City: hands-on with SimCity
Hello, I am the best SimCity mayor. Above you'll see a screenshot of the best city, my city, 'Lovely City', which has drawn upon centuries of urban planning and design theory to arrive at the most...
View ArticleUpdate for all our Apple Mayors -- SimCity for the Mac is releasing this...
Primary vertical: SimCityArticle body: Update for all our Apple Mayors -- SimCity for the Mac is releasing this spring and pre-orders will be available soon. For more information, please read our FAQ:...
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SimCity Digital Deluxe Edition trailer shows off rainy Britain
SimCity is rapidly nearing its 5 March release date and excitement is palpably building about the PCGN offices - Jeremy's left hand's been gripping the desk since Saturday. The latest trailer...
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SimCity’s Sandbox mode unveiled: “a gentler version" of Maxis' game
SimCity has a mode that normalises cheating. Rather than type ‘Rosebud’ into your keyboard ad infinitum, you’ll be able to top up your Simoleans in Sandbox mode with one key press. And if you don’t...
View ArticleAn Actual Urban Planner Takes On The Original SimCity
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View ArticleSimCity has gone gold! To celebrate our final road to releasing the game,...
Primary vertical: SimCityArticle body: SimCity has gone gold! To celebrate our final road to releasing the game, Creative Director Ocean Quigley penned a letter from the Maxis team thanking you, the...
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SimCity is out in two weeks: here's everything we know
SimCity's March 8th release date is looming. It's within sniffing distance now. You can hear it on the breeze, you can smell it on the horizon, you can taste it in a third and even...
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Sim City creator Will Wright talks about Sims with SimCity director Ocean...
Excited about SimCity? It’s only a bit over two weeks away till its release and everyone has their breath held. Here is a lovely video of Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, talking to...
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SimCity trailer speaks to the city planner in all of us
Games are one of those few activities that can be more fun to do wrong than right. Opening a door wrongly can end in a broken nose, not fun; clearing up dog poo the wrong way ends with messy hands and...
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SimCity multiplayer regions may become plagued by ghost towns
Sorry for the scaremongery title but these are dire times(!) for SimCity, well, somewhat interesting times which may be solved in the future with a patch. When SimCity launches there may be a couple...
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Will Wright: SimCity initially "felt a little claustrophobic"
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcgamesn.com/simcity/simcity-out-two-weeks-heres-everything-we-know-0">One of the major concerns that's come out of the hands-on previews</a> and beta...
View ArticleFaith Check: Will SimCity's Servers Hold Up Next Week?
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SimCity: Ocean Quigley will "get around to expanding the city size" eventually
The main sticking point for the upcoming SimCity is the restrictive city size. <a target="_blank"...
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SimCity launch hobbled by server strain; EA offering refunds
Surprising no one, the launch of SimCity was mired in problems as a result of both the game's always-on internet connection DRM and the lack of an option to pre-load game files. In response to all the...
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EA “confident” in Origin stability for SimCity European launch tomorrow;...
Launch day trouble for SimCity has been such that EA have offered refunds to any and all players “let down” by Origin’s meltdown. But the issues continue unabated, and now pre-orderers elsewhere...
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My first night in SimCity: the wasted time, the good time, the giant...
I am torn between two reactions to SimCity. On the one hand, my experience last night wasn’t really all that bad. I saw the US servers were slammed, waited 40 minutes to try and get into one while I...
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EA deploy patch 1.2 to SimCity; disables Cheetah speed
Patch 1.2 has just hit SimCity, with it applying fixes to common crashes. While the game suffers from serious server strain, EA have also disabled some ‘non-critical gameplay elements’ such as...
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How EA could repair SimCity's disastrous launch
SimCity faces a disaster. Not a rampant lizard, but a vast crater where the game’s servers once stood. The ongoing drama has been galling to watch and experience: the game dogged by server queues and...
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Amazon withdraw SimCity downloads
Amazon have withdrawn sales of the digital download version of SimCity, as the game’s server problems continue ahead of the UK launch tomorrow. Meanwhile, it’s faced a vast and vocal consumer backlash,...
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SimCity UK launch has happened without explosions or brouhahas. Update:...
Update: The UK servers are now suffering exactly the same connection issues as the US servers. Players are unable to log in or are asked to wait in a queue of 20 minutes to attempt a fresh login....
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