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The Ballad Of Modern Video Games

Kyle McInnes made this clip for the upcoming Ottawa Games Conference. There’s a pretty good rap in there about the state of modern gaming! But let’s be honest, I just like seeing them smash SimCity to little pieces with a sledgehammer.


SimCity Now Features Disappearing Mouse Cursors

SimCity’s latest v3.0 update has added an exciting new feature to the game: a disappearing or erratic mouse cursor. It’s easily fixed, but also a ridiculous bug to come up so long after release.


SimCity’s Problems Have Caused This Family Nothing But Suffering

Meet the Rogers. They live in that tiny little house. One of the first families to move into my burgeoning metropolis of Windfall Islands, they are stalwarts of the city, having stayed in the same spot, in the same house, for what feels like an eternity.


EA Says SimCity ‘Has Recovered From A Challenging Launch’

Nevermind the bugs: the folks behind SimCity say it’s doing just fine.


SimCity 2.0 Update Brings A Rash Of New Bugs

This week, hopeful eyes turned to SimCity as the troubled city-building game received its first major patch. Maxis has promised that SimCity 2.0 would fix a number of bugs in the game, but it sounds like the 2.0 patch has also brought with it a raft of new, equally annoying bugs.


Buy Toothpaste, Get New Buildings In SimCity. Because Advertising.

Move over, Nissan Leaf. We’ve got some new brands in town: Crest® Toothpaste and Oral-B®. According to EA, specially marked Crest® and Oral-B® products come packaged with a SimCity code for downloadable content called “Attractions Set”.


Modelling Traffic Problems in SimCity 2000

In light of the AI wonkiness of the new SimCity, the same guy who accurately modelled his hometown’s traffic problems during the SimCity Beta has made an attempt to do the same thing in SimCity 2000. The results are… pretty interesting.


Happy One-Month Anniversary, SimCity. How’s It Going?

One month ago today, EA and Maxis released SimCity into the wild. The game’s launch was… troubled, to say the least. In fact, you could very easily call it a disaster. Server woes, a debilitating online requirement, AI shortcomings, lost cities and slow customer-service left many gamers angry.


Hooray, The First Free DLC For SimCity Is… An Advertisement

Developers have found clever ways to advertise brands in the games we play. Last year, we discovered that Sim City Social featured a Dunkin Donuts building that was much, much better than the normal bakeries in the game.


SimCity Designer’s GDC Talk Started With… An Error Message

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Maxis designer Dan Moskowitz gave a talk about SimCity and sandbox design. But, before he began, a joke.


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