Tag: maxis

SimCity 5 finally announced

I won’t lie, this has been a day I’ve been anticipating for a very long time – a new addition to the SimCity series has been announced. It shall be released in 2013, and many hours of productivity will be lost. That’s 10 years after the last release (!). Full details apparently are being revealed on March 6th, right now there are only a few early screenshots.

I’m posting this because I have a feeling that some of the more active readers of this blog have dabbled in the game series in the past. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but this series is one of the reason I’m so interested in city development, even though it can be far from accurate (no such thing as mixed used development for example). It sure is fun though, and it has a clever way of making 9pm become 2am in a matter of minutes. Click to read more!