596 acres, 50,000 residents, $4 billion dollars and even a 1,500-boat marina: Everything about the proposed Chicago Lakeside Development, developer Dan McCaffery's massive micro-city being built at ...

SimCity Lead Designer Stone Librande has posted an official blog entry explaining the causes of some of SimCity's most discussed design decisions and flaws, including the "unavoidable (and illogical) ...

If the old SimCity could nurture a generation of urban planners, perhaps its newest rendition will inspire tomorrow's natural resource managers and environmental engineers Any computer gamer old ...

This summer, people around the globe experienced record-breaking temperatures, catastrophic flooding and insatiable wildfires. Some of us who are able might retreat into the fictional worlds of video ...

Multiplayer is just one aspect of SimCity's online functionality. The game is being "built from the groud up to support online," Maxis' Andrew Willmott said at a GDC panel. Multiplayer is just one ...

SINGAPORE, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new AI-powered design and material marketplace is reinventing how people create their living spaces. Inspired by the city-building game SimCity, it lets ...

It's event time here in San Francisco, and EA's gamer day is first on the list. With a mixture of sports, racing, and Sim titles, the event houses over a dozen upcoming titles spanning nearly every ...

Since it launched 23 years ago (to the day, oddly enough), SimCity has been inspiring would-be urban planners to design, build (and, if the mood so calls for it, blow up) the cities of their dreams.

The launch of SimCity 2013 was cataclysmic, but it never really stood a chance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a ...