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Bustling New SimCity Makes Old SimCity Look As Still As A Board Game
5The new SimCity, set for release on PC early next year, looks delightful. It doesn’t look like it plays all that differently than the old ones; just updated, as they might say, for modern times.
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SimCity Is More Expansive And Detailed Than Ever, Yet Remarkably True To Its Roots
SimCity has always been a game that is viewed from two distances — up close and far away. You would start with the camera zoomed out, able to see the entirety of your creation; a city or cities on a grid, little smokestacks pouring out smoke, tiny aeroplanes droning over the hills.
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It’s Official, SimCity Is Back
Sure, it was leaked all over the internet last week, but tonight at the Game Developers Conference, EA has made it official: SimCity is back.
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Action-RPG Darkspore Is Or Was Coming To Xbox 360, PS3
In his resume, level-designer Jordan Patz claims to have “worked with Maxis to modify Darkspore for release on Xbox/PS3″. Wasn’t that just a PC game? The résumé has since been modified: it now links to a YouTube video of a flying cat. Very suspicious. [joystiq]