Maxis: ‘Yes’ — we could ‘have built a subset offline mode’ in SimCity

A modder revealed you can continue playing SimCity even when not connected to a server. Maxis responds.

EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)

But she says the game servers can now meet demand and EA has learned valuable lessons.

EA improves SimCity online access with 40 times better server response times

Electronic Arts says twice as many people can play the city-building game at the same time now.

Admitting it was ‘dumb,’ EA adds SimCity servers and offers players a free game

EA has added servers and offered free games to help appease disgruntled SimCity players.

Maxis: It’s ‘fair’ that reviewers ‘punished’ SimCity for server issues

An internal memo from Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw reveals some of the developer's feelings on the launch.

Build your own SimCity on Mac this February

The new SimCity will launch for Mac as well as PC in February 2013.

SimCity Social: If this free-to-play game is too good, will you pay $60 for the full PC version?

Electronic Arts is finally unveiling a long-rumored Facebook game, SimCity Social. And with it begins a great experiment: Will fans who enjoy this free-to-play online game also dish out $60 when the full-fledged SimCity remake arrives for the PC in …

A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference

Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …

EA revives Sim City for 2013 launch — with curvy roads

Electronic Arts announced tonight that it will bring the beloved franchise SimCity back with a new game scheduled for launch in 2013.

The game will give fans of the long-dormant franchise — and there are probably tens of millions of …