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Mikes Rant – Why EA Should Just Go Away And Die!
Mikes Rant 4 – Why EA Needs To Go Away and Die! I have been a fan of gaming for nearly 30 years now. I feel that in that time I am fortunate to have played some pretty awesome and groundbreaking games. Being mostly a console creature until around 1995,…
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Sims 4 Clothing no Longer Gender-Locked
With character customization at the heart of many games, doing something as simple as choosing a character’s clothes can turn a character into your digital friend. Be it in the Norse adventures of Skyrim or the modern warfare of Call of Duty, something as simple as changing a character’s hat and mask…
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SimCity Developers Maxis Closed Down by EA
Game developer Maxis, creator of “successful” franchises The Sims and SimCity, is being consolidated by its parent company, Electronic Arts. Though the Maxis label will still be used on its existing series as a brand name, the studio itself has been dissolved. The news was announced during the Game Developers…
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Why Build A City In SimCity When You Can 3D Print it!?
If you’re a big SimCity fan then this latest use for 3D Printing could be right up your street. A designer called Ittyblox has produced modular buildings from the SimCity game using 3D Printing. As you might expect, they aren’t to scale, but if you like the novelty of having decorative gaming paraphernalia then…
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Sims 4 Fans Angered By Omission of Toddlers and Pools – DLC Gone Too Far
Anyone who knows anything about the Sims series knows that EA take the absolute biscuit when it comes to DLC. They release a slimmed down base version of the game then milk the living crap out of Sims fans through DLC after DLC after DLC after…….and so on, you get the idea.…
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Maxis Considering Offline Mode But Not Larger Maps For SimCity, Too Little Too Late?
In a blog post the Maxis General Manager Patrick Buechner has stated that the team at Maxis are still considering some of the “larger asks” that fans have been asking for such as implementing an offline mode or creating larger city maps. Of course since SimCity’s release the game has been…
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Three Big Devs Quit Maxis To Make New Game ‘Tethys’
Ocean Quigley has announced that he has now left EA and Maxis, joining forces with two other former Maxis employess and that he has formed a brand new indie studio called Jellygrade. Quigley was the SimCity creative director for Maxis, having worked on titles in the Sim City series such…
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SimCity Amusement Park DLC Released
Do you play SimCity? If you do, you know very well that SimCity has had a ton of issues with their newest release. Though they have been working to fix all of the issues that their servers have had, and glitches within the game they still haven’t gotten them all…
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SimCity Update 2.0 Coming Monday April 22nd
According to a lot of Gamers SimCity has been desperately in need of quite a few AI and bug fixes and it looks like the development team at Maxis are responding to that. EA and Maxis are launching version 2.0 of the game which promises to bring a huge number…
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EA Sells 1.1 million SimCity Copies Despite Server Issues
For those of you who have been living under a rock recently, there has been a lot of action going on with regards to EA: Maxis General Manager says Online Nature of SimCity is Fundamental to the Game (16th March 2013) A SimCity Mod by UKAzzer allows Offline Playability (15th…
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Maxis General Manager says Online Nature of SimCity is Fundamental to the Game
The need for a constant internet connection to play the new SimCity has been criticised by many to the extent where some people have even developed mods that allow you to play it offline. However, Maxis and EA have rebuked all the criticisms by saying that the Online Nature of…
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