SimCity

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Mar 4, 2015	'Sim City' Maker Maxis Emeryville Is The Latest Studio Shut Down By Electronic Arts	Timothy Torres, Tech Times 04 March 2015, 06:03 pm Maxis Emeryville, the game development studio best known for the Sim City, Spore and the early Sims video games, has been shut down by its parent company Electronics Arts today. SimCity lea...
Nov 21, 2014	The future of homework is … video games	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. For many students, the mention of homework evokes a sense of dread. Ask any parent and chances are they, too, have a strong opinion abo...
Nov 21, 2014	The future of homework is … video games	For many students, the mention of homework evokes a sense of dread. Ask any parent and chances are they, too, have a strong opinion about the value of homework. Educators and researchers are divided on the issue. In the last decade, an emph...
Jan 15, 2014	Maxis trabalhou mais de seis meses para colocar modo offline no SimCity	Meses após um lançamento desastroso, graças aos servidores que não deram conta da demanda, a Maxis confirmou que SimCity finalmente ganhará um modo offline, que não dependerá de conexão à internet para salvar os dados do jogo. Ficou aquela ...
Jan 13, 2014	EA 'Embraces' SimCity Players: Releases Useless Modding Tools And Promises Supposedly Impossible 'Offline' Mode	EA/Maxis is reviving memories of its epicly disastrous release of SimCity back in March with a couple of announcements. The first announcement is EA’s awkward attempt to embrace its community like an ex-husband trying to coax a hug out of h...
Mar 18, 2013	Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It	Many of us are still waiting for a Maxis mea culpa following the horrible release of their always-online SimCity game. When last we checked in with Maxis, they were busy pretending that all of the backlash surrounding this complete mess of ...
Mar 15, 2013	EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)	When a game sells too many copies at its launch, it’s usually not a bad thing. But with SimCity, it turned into a nightmare for Electronic Arts, because the city-building simulation was designed as an always-connected single-player game. Wh...
Mar 15, 2013	EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. When a game sells too many copies at its launch, it’s usually not a bad thing. But with SimCity, it turned into a nightmare for Electro...
Mar 9, 2013	EA Apologizes For SimCity Disaster, Says It Was “Dumb” And Offers Free Game To Players	Electronic Arts’ SimCity was easily the most anticipated game of the season, but its launch was an unmitigated disaster because the DRM solution Electronic Arts and Maxis dreamt up means users have to always be online if they want to play. ...
Mar 7, 2013	We Built This SimCity On A Shaky Foundation Of DRM	EA’s anticipated SimCity launch has officially become a cavalcade of fail. Amazon is temporarily suspending sales of digital copies of the game in the face of massive negative buyer feedback, with the electronic title managing to accrue an ...
Mar 4, 2013	A ‘big data’ experience revives the glory of SimCity (review)	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. [We played the game with early access review code and tested the interaction between cities in a group with other journalists. We did n...
Aug 14, 2012	Mac users will get to play new SimCity too, closed beta registrations begin	reader comments 45 with 40 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit UPDATE: EA has also started taking registrations for a closed beta for the game. No word on when that beta will actually st...
Aug 7, 2012	Funium Raises $1.8 Million For A Facebook Game Where You Play As Your Ancestors, Map Your Genealogy	Funium, a Provo-based startup that’s merging personal ancestry research with virtual worlds in its new game “Family Village,” has raised an additional $1.8 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today. This new investment is on ...
Aug 6, 2012	ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Electronic Arts	The game publisher that brought the world Madden NFL, The Sims and Battlefield has shed nearly 60% of its value in the last year, and its stock is down more than 80% from its all-time high. Why are investors so sour? Because despite being o...
Mar 28, 2012	Facebook game CelebrityMe makes you a star	After a $2M fund infusion this year, Seismic Games creates a Hollywood experience for social games Social game startup Seismic Games launched Wednesday a Hollywood task-driven game, CelebrityMe, on Facebook. The new game is a character-driv...
Mar 6, 2012	EA revives Sim City for 2013 launch — with curvy roads	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Electronic Arts announced tonight that it will bring the beloved franchise SimCity back with a new game scheduled for launch in 2013. T...
Mar 6, 2012	EA revives Sim City for 2013 launch — with curvy roads	Electronic Arts announced tonight that it will bring the beloved franchise SimCity back with a new game scheduled for launch in 2013. The game will give fans of the long-dormant franchise — and there are probably tens of millions of them — ...
Jun 5, 2008	SimCity Societies free preview download	What’s this? Only the best PC game ever! Starting June 12 (that’s next Thursday), you’ll be able to download a demo version of SimCity Societies at SimCity.com. Here’s what to expect from the freebie… a tutorial, a challenging scenario and ...

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Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning SimCity, among them “'Sim City' Maker Maxis Emeryville Is The Latest Studio Shut Down By Electronic Arts” (Mar 4, 2015) and “The future of homework is … video games” (Nov 21, 2014).

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Yes, SimCity is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 8, 2015.