Tag Archives: SimCity

Darryn Bonthuys

The latest SimCity patch adds extra bugs to the game

April 25, 2013 at 10:30 am | 35 Comments

It’s not an easy life for the citizens of my sprawling Mega-City One. Their children have to go to school right next to a nuclear waste plant, while citizens are complaining about the fact that I may have built a sewerage plant in the middle of main street. Surprisingly though, that lifestyle was actually better before the latest patch for the SimCity MMO arrived.


Gavin Mannion

Is SimCity coming to consoles?

April 17, 2013 at 7:45 am | 25 Comments

EA have teamed up with Crest toothpaste in the States to offer some new DLC for all those gamers who pop out to their local shops to pick up a tube of toothpaste. Some sites are taking offense with this for ethical reasons but I do think that’s going a bit far.


Gavin Mannion

Free SimCity DLC that is going to make you rage

April 3, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 62 Comments

EA games have announced they are releasing some free DLC for SimCity which is something that people are normally very excited about.. yet I have a feeling this offer is going to bring out the anger in the comments.


Darryn Bonthuys

Top Ten Video Game Resurrections

March 29, 2013 at 2:00 pm | 31 Comments

This upcoming weekend is more than just a well deserved break and an excuse to eat more fish than usual! There’s a few religious conotations attached to it as well, dealing with a super-saviour showing the Romans who the real Israeli Wolverine was! Romanes eunt domus! So in keeping with that theme, we’re taking a look at several video games which also managed to come back from the dead.


Geoffrey Tim

DRM does more damage than piracy

March 20, 2013 at 10:30 am | 55 Comments

There’s nothing worse than being a paying customer, and having to jump through hoops to get your freshly-purchased game working. Well, there’s being sodomised by a rabid elephant while fire-ants nip at your genitals, but that happens only once or twice in your lifetime; while DRM is a regular occurrence. All too often DRM, like your girlfriend’s monthly ovarian operating system reboot, gets in the way of you having a good time. Affirming what we’ve all believed for forever, Super Meat Boy developer Tommy Refenes argues (via Destructoid) that DRM does nothing to stop piracy – but in fact makes it more likely a thing to happen.


Gavin Mannion

EA is giving SimCity owners a free game

March 19, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 42 Comments

So the disastrous SimCity launch is now nearly over and things are pretty much stable -  but EA knows we haven’t forgotten about what happened. And to try and please the angry mobs they have come out and stated that if you have activated a copy of SimCity before the 25th of March 23:59 PDT then you can pick one of these games for free.


Gavin Mannion

SimCity can be played offline, but it sucks

March 18, 2013 at 9:30 am | 52 Comments

So conspiracy theorists across the world went nuts last week when it was proven that you can indeed play SimCity offline with a quick patch. However what people failed to understand is that it wasn’t only the ability to save games that was lost but also the entire point of this SimCity.


Gavin Mannion

SimCity traffic problems are being repaired

March 15, 2013 at 9:00 am | 21 Comments

I’ve been playing a lot of SimCity recently but I’m obviously not very good as I haven’t yet run into this major traffic problem that is getting more and more coverage. But if you are good and having problems then I have some good news.


Geoffrey Tim

SimCity gets modded offline mode

March 14, 2013 at 1:00 pm | 12 Comments

Maxis’ SimCity is riding a wave of controversy and criticism at the moment, mostly because of its perpetual online requirement. Many see it as little more than obfuscated DRM, while EA maintains that its complex simulations require being connected to the cloud – and that an offline mode would require a lot of engineering. That appears to not quite be the case.


Gavin Mannion

SimCity Review–A tale of many many cities

March 13, 2013 at 1:00 pm | 52 Comments

SimCity is a difficult title to review as it is very hard to know when you’ve played enough to review the title properly. The game never really ends so in some ways it’s like an MMO so I’ve played around 30-40 hours now and feel I know the game enough to give it a fair review.


Geoffrey Tim

Yes, there’s a SimCity DRM petition

March 11, 2013 at 1:30 pm | 36 Comments

SimCity, the first game in the management title in over a decade released last week to a number of issues, keeping people from playing their perpetually connected, mostly single player game. The issues were less severe in European territories, and the US server issues are nearly resolved. Still fans want change – and they want change in the form of a patch that removes the need for a permanent online connection.


Darryn Bonthuys

No refund for copies of SimCity bought on Origin

March 8, 2013 at 9:45 am | 33 Comments

SimCity launches today! A game where you get to build metropolises, grow a city and then unleash all manner of hell on it. Well, it’s what I would do at least, seeing as how I still regularly brick up my Sims in their homes and leave them to die a horrible death. The thing is, SimCity has had a very rocky launch so far, as the always-online game has been hit with an Error 37 level of denied service and crammed servers. A lot of folks have thrown their hands in the air and taken back their game copy to get a refund. It’s just a pity that anyone who bought the game on Origin, is pretty much screwed.


Gavin Mannion

EA support may need some stronger management

March 7, 2013 at 9:00 am | 22 Comments

There is nothing that annoys me more in this world than accountants who forget the purpose of a company in the drive to cut costs...but a close second are employees who become arrogant because they have a certain amount of power.


Gavin Mannion

SimCity is released with legal cheats

March 6, 2013 at 9:45 am | 44 Comments

I’m a massive SimCity fan but I must have missed the memo that SimCity is all about the cheating as I honestly didn’t know that. But it seems to be such a big thing that EA have actually developed some straight forward cheats in the system for you to try.


Gavin Mannion

A new SimCity beta is announced

February 11, 2013 at 12:30 pm | 12 Comments

I thoroughly enjoyed the last SimCity beta so I was very happy to see the announcement that yet another beta is being announced; though I was a bit disappointed to see it is only going to last a day. The beta starts on the 17th of Feb at 1am EST to 1am on the 18th of Feb.

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