Maxis Studio's Patrick Buechner has announced that SimCity will soon have offline capabilities in a future update. In a blog on the SimCity website, Patrick stated that "Offline is coming as a free download with Update 10 to all SimCity players. When we launch it, all of your previously...
The Cities of Tomorrow expansion promises new mega-towers and other high-tech futuristic buildings and gameplay, though no offline mode. In a recent blog post announcing the expansion a bried description was given - new mega-towers (to me highly reminiscent of the mega blocks of Dredd) will...
Earlier this year, people were up in arms with the fact that SimCity was an always online game. Maxis could be considering an offline mode after all. The developer said in many interviews before that "their vision" for SimCity was to make it a social experience and adding an offline mode...
Tommy Refenes (developer of Super Meat Boy) wrote on his own blog stating that the always online DRM model might have hurt EA more than piracy. As most people will know by now, SimCity was met with overwhelming negative feedback with the always online DRM. This is because the servers were...
CEO of Electronic Arts (EA) John Riccitiello has now stepped down from his position. Former EA CEO and board chairman Larry Probst will temporarily take over the position until a suitable replacement is found. Riccitiello was first hired for the position back in 2007. Although he faced...
Despite the whole DRM drama around EA's SimCity on the PC, the game still managed to sell over over a million copies ever since it launched two weeks ago. According to EA, the launch of SimCity is the biggest one they had for the franchise where 54% of the players chose to download the game...
A smart hacker/modder has been able to access SimCity's debug mode that allows you to play the game offline. A Reddit user called UKAzzer posted the following information on his experience: You can edit the highways ANYWHERE - even outside of your city boundary," UKAzzer said, "and even...
If you bought SimCity and are wondering if the server you are in is up, there is now a way to check it. Starting today, you can now check the status of your server as EA officially launched its server status page. With its disastrous launch last week, it's great to see that we can now check...
The Indian EA Origin store has pulled SimCity. Not because of the DRM issue, but because of a technical issue that made the game's price lower than usual. The Electronic Arts India Facebook page posted the following message: "Due to a technical exploit that is being abused by some users,...
As most of you will know by now, SimCity is an online only game that has caused headaches for everyone that purchased the game. The official SimCity twitter account hinted they may include an offline mode to the game to gain the trust back from its fans. Here's what was tweeted: "We...
As most of you will already know, EA mucked up the launch of SimCity and the game has remained unplayable for close to a week now. As some type of apology, EA will be giving away a free PC game. SimCity requires you to be connected online to play the game. The servers couldn't handle the...
For a while Digital Rights Management or DRM has been a hot button issue in the gaming community. This really isn't that surprising, since we've seen countless games implement it only to have some sort of problem arise. The latest example of DRM gone wrong is SimCity, which requires you to...
SimCity received good reviews from critics but all seemed to go downhill once gamers got their hands on the game. Initially some players found problems getting onto servers, then as we reported earlier EA decided to suspend advertising. To make matters worse after 1512 review, at the time of...
The release of SimCity has been a disaster for EA and the many people that bought the game. The release is so bad, EA now has to suspend advertising the game. An internal email was released to EA's marketing affiliate partners requesting them to stop promoting the game for the time being....
Polygon did something gutsy and changed its review score for SimCity mainly because of the DRM connectivity issues that game has been receiving since launch. The website originally scored SimCity a very high 9.5/10. This was when the game was only available to reviewers and the servers...
Have your recent antics of creeping in on a virtual neighborhood in The Sims been too small-scale? What about filling the shoes of a charismatic dictator in Tropico? Then I've got some wonderful news for you. Maxis and EA are serving up a nice helping of pure SimCity for your gaming...