EA and Maxis have just announced that there will be a major update coming to SimCity that will require some downtime on Monday. However, there will be plenty of new additions including a Mayors Mansion commuting upgrade. This allows you to drive to the mansion in a fancy car, take your helicopter, limo, or sports car. The HUD now color-corrects when in [...]

  SimCity will be released for Mac in June says EA and developer Maxis. If you managed to purchase the PC version, either physically or digitally, you will receive the Mac version as a free digital download on Origin. You can also play with your Mac friends on the same server. Good news for SimCity Mac users. Look for the SimCity Mac [...]

Yo yo yo!  In this episode of the NGN n00bcast we talk about the EAs CEO, John Riccitiello, stepping down and whether or not that may be related to the recent SimCity debacle.  We also talk about the Final Fantasy X remake, and a special bonus they just announced they’re including.  We cover the new Saints Row 4 trailer and what we hope to see [...]

Electronic Arts has announced today that SimCity sold more than 1.1 million units in the first two weeks, making this the biggest SimCity launch of all time. Roughly 54 percent of those sales have been through digital distribution channels including Origin and other services. In just two weeks: SimCity players have logged more than 15 million hours of online gameplay. More than 5.7 million original [...]

If you purchased SimCity when it was first released, you know that there were nothing but problems with the servers. When confronted with the problem, EA said that they would fix the problems with the servers and offered to make up the inconvenience to the players with a free Origin game. Today, EA has posted the details of this offer on simcity.com [...]

EA has done the unthinkable: they’ve made Diablo 3‘s Error 37 seem like a completely minor inconvenience. When SimCity launched at midnight EST on March 5th, 2013, they initiated one of the biggest launch catastrophes in the history of video games. With only four servers and a comically bizarre queuing system, their online infrastructure buckled under the weight of gamers [...]

According to Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw, SimCity is getting its act together. She states “I’m happy to report that the core problem with getting in and having a great SimCity experience is almost behind us. Our players have been able to connect to their cities in the game for nearly 8 million hours of gameplay time and we’ve reduced game crashes [...]

Electronic Arts has reportedly suspended some of its online marketing for SimCity. According to Polygon, an email from EA Origin asks advertisers to “please stop actively promoting the game” for now. The email continues, EA Origin has “deactivated all SimCity text links and creative and we ask you to please remove any copy promoting SimCity from your website for the [...]

Despite all the US server woes for SimCity, the EA executives assured European gamers that Origin would be ready for the additional load. However, it seems that these promises were just based on hope rather than fact. According to an internal EA memo from Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw and released by Polygon, the memo stated, “It’s also now evident [...]

We know that SimCity has been having a very difficult time getting SimCity to all the people that want to play it. Earlier today, they disabled the leaderboards, achievements and region filters of the game to reduce the server load. This was designed to give the engineers more leeway with patching the game. However, the move has not been working very [...]