Maxis' 2013 reboot of the SimCity franchise will always be remembered for its disastrous launch more than anything else. But now, more than three years removed from that debacle, SimCity creative ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. A lot has changed since 1989, not least of which is SimCity. The ...

The Vietnamese food helped. Steaming soups and noodles that really got the juices flowing. In the last days of SimCity 4’s development, back around the turn of the century, Maxis game designer Ocean ...

SimCity is a visually striking homage to a classic series that takes city building in bold new directions, but troubling business decisions and technical snafus spell trouble. Building a city is hard ...

The day Mariina Hallikainen received a communique detailing first day sales stats for Cities: Skylines, she was very happy. Most game genres have a progenitor, a "first" that sets the wheels in motion ...

The new SimCity is bustling like never before. You’ll notice the difference right away—unlike previous versions of the hit computer game, this one is actually ...

Ever since I was young, I've been playing SimCity. I first started playing the original version in the early Nineties, and then graduated to SimCity 2000. I then jumped ahead much later to SimCity 4, ...

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with SimCity 2000, a computer game that tasked players with building a city from scratch then running it like a despot. It was the best gun-free game out there even if ...

SimCity. There’s something powerful in Maxis’ decision to re-purpose the name of the inaugural game in its classic series for the freshly released reboot. It carries an implied declaration: this is ...

With EA busy polishing a hot turd instead of rejoicing at a true SimCity successor, I guess it was only a matter of time before someone else decided to take the lead. Last week I got a brief look at ...

When you begin a new game in SimCity, you have to place your city within the region and the world in which it's located. This facilitates better interaction with other cities, but comes with its share ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. After years of banking on the success of the immensely popular The ...