GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The core of the problem is this: SimCity requires you to be permanently connected to the Internet, and data is constantly being passed between your ...

with all the talk of simcity 4, and after playing it a bit, i realized something.<BR><BR>The next simcity, i give it 6-12 months will be simcity online. SC4 is a test.<BR>reasons you ask?<BR><BR>1.

The SimCity launch saga is well into its second week, and Electronic Arts added another chapter today with a note to fans on its company website. In an update titled "Straight Answers from Lucy," ...

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, ...

In an unsurprising but wholly satisfying twist, it turns out that EA and Maxis were lying about SimCity's always-online server requirements. According to a developer who worked on SimCity and has very ...

Eight months after the disastrous launch of "SimCity" that many irate players attributed to the game's nonsensical always-online requirement, publisher Electronic Arts and developer Maxis are now ...

The video game publisher and “SimCity” developer Maxis unveiled plans to resurrect the 23-year-old metropolis-building franchise during a presentation Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference. “I ...

When a publisher launches a big game, it wants to gain the maximum exposure at every possible opportunity. The first reveal, the preview events, the reviews — each of these is a chance to point the ...

Following word that SimCity will no longer require an Internet connection to function, lead engineer Simon Fox has posted a lengthy explanation of why it took so long for developer Maxis to strip out ...