The creator of SimCity and The Sims talks about the state of the game industry and the art of game design.
Wright says he loves playing World of Tanks, which is like a "first person shooter for old people."
The well-known game designer started at Electronic Arts, working on The Sims. Now, she's running a Ubisoft studio with 300 employees.
Editor's Pick It's easy to take shots at Riccitiello's record, but his successes and failures were complex.
We're sure to see a lot of ambitious projects on Nintendo's Wii U in the next few years, but here's hoping that nobody takes the console's dual-screen concept in any disturbing directions.
Legendary game designer Will Wright is so cool that even his PowerPoints are fascinating.
GamesBeat 2012: In Will Wright's vision of the future, the player is the game.
As the gamification industry continues to grow, it looks to game designers for help and advice.
Inside the Maxis studio in Emeryville, Calif., the next SimCity is taking shape. The new game won’t debut until 2013, but Electronic Arts recently revealed enough of it to get longtime fans of the series — which originally debuted in …
Will Wright’s games from SimCity to The Sims have sold more than 100 million units. That’s why people are paying attention to his new startup and game idea, HiveMind. The Berkeley, Calif.-based company is focused on “personal gaming,” or a …
Game publishing company Electronic Arts‘ newest social game, The Sims Social, has passed social gaming supergiant Zynga’s Farmville and now has 36 million monthly active users just under a month after its launch, according to AppData.
The Sims Social has …
Electronic Arts’ latest Facebook game, The Sims Social, has picked up more than 4.6 million daily active users after launching a week ago, according to AppData.
The Sims Social was the fastest growing social game this week, picking up 2.6 …
Confirming previous reports, Zynga verified that it poached another Electronic Arts executive. Jeff Karp, who was formerly executive vice president at EA Play, has joined Zynga as chief marketing and revenue officer.
Under his new role, Karp will oversee all …
The Sims Social, a social gaming version of Electronic Arts’ incredibly popular life simulation franchise The Sims, is now live on Facebook.
Electronic Arts’ newest social game looks like it will give Zynga — which hasn’t really faced any stiff …
The Sims, a life simulation game, is one of Electronic Arts’ most successful franchises. The company has sold more than 140 million copies of the game and its sequels and expansion packs and has generated around $3 billion in revenue …
Electronic Arts announced today that it is releasing a new social game for Facebook that is built off its popular life simulation game, The Sims. The company made the presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo today in Los Angeles, Calif.…
