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EA Unveils Mega Sim City Bundle
Electronic Arts today unveiled a five pack of Sim City's best that will go on sale this June. The SimCity Box contains SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations, SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour and The Sims Carnival SnapCity. Purchases seperated, the whole thing would set you back $100, but the bundle is retailing for $40.
"The SimCity Box is the perfect opportunity to discover the fun of city building with SimCity," said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims. "This is the greatest value SimCity has ever offered and players everywhere can get hands-on with a wide range of SimCity products from one box at an amazing price."
Hit up a jump for a primer on what each of the packed in games is about.
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EA Donates SimCity to OLPC
You may know One Laptop Per Child (or the XO laptop) as the $100 computer for developing countries...that kind of snowballed into a computer that costs just shy of two Benjamins. Despite the inflated costs, It's still a good cause. And we're happy to see EA on board, donating the original SimCity to be pre-installed on all machines.
Before any of you start nagging that SimCity 2000 could probably run just as well on these computers, remember that storage is a commodity on the inexpensive laptops. And then punk EA by donating something better. Here's the full press release: More »
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Daglow Defines Next-Gen (Hint: It's Wii, WoW & Guitar Hero)
Don Daglow of Stormfront Studios spoke at today's GC Developers Conference on the subject of an oft-abused descriptor, rhetorically asking the question "What is next-gen?" Daglow's definition may differ from the conventional explanation, which is, essentially, the next iteration in a hardware cycle. The founder of Stormfront, whose resume spans at career at Intellivision as game director and one of the original producers at EA, tackled the definition in a number of divergent ways, declaring the hardcore contentious GameCube Turbo (aka Wii) a next-gen gaming system. More »5:40 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Michael McWhertor
5,414 views, 63 commentsLatest by Tarka: Playstation 3 is the next generation of the PlayStation and the Xbox 360 is the next generation of the Xbox. more »
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Overly Influenced SimCity Socities Screens
I am completely with Crecente, who in his impressions of SimyCity Societies at E3 mentioned having grown a bit bored with the SimCity formula over the years. Societal influences that change the way your city develops is just what the franchise doctor called for. Between the intriguing concept and this set of amazingly detailed city scenes highlighting the difference those influences make, I'm excited about a SimCity title for the first time in years.
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Western Game Makers Target Japan
Lock your doors and hide under your futons, Japan. According to Japanese financial news source Nikkei, Western game publishers are coming for your yen! While Electronic Arts makes buckets of cash in America, the global leader ranks up less than 10 percent of its sales in Japan. What's worse, EA shuttered its Japan studio earlier this year. Electronic Arts still continues to throw Sim City and The Sims at Japanese Wiis and DSes, hoping that they'll stick. Elsewhere, Microsoft has teamed up with Final Fantasy creator Hironobu "The Gooch" Sakaguchi for a handful of RPGs and also bundled its console with Namco created RPG Trusty Bell. Still, Japan is a tough market to crack — just ask Sony with its PS3. Zing!
Game Makers Target Japan [Rising Sun of Nihon]2:00 AM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,072 views, 18 commentsLatest by BryT: Excellent, that's exactly what Japan needs. 30 first-person shooters a year and more professional sports games than you can shake a more »
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Sim City DS Coming This Summer
Sim City DS, recently released in Japan, is on its way to the rest of the world this summer, complete with replacement of the formerly undecipherable squigglies with actual English-language text, making it much easier for me to play. EA, as they often do, have issued a press release with details on the upcoming game, highlighting the unique features that separate the DS version from the original PC version of SimCity 3000. Feautures like being able to sign off on proclamations using the stylus as well as put out fires by blowing into the microphone. More » -
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Will Wright in Your Pocket
GameBrink has posted the box art and some new screens of the Japanese version of SimCity DS, which include the first look at the game's own anime tour guide, encephalitic Will Wright. His head is so huge! If the game ever gets released stateside there'd better be a bobble head preorder promotion. More » -
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Sim City DS
Seems a wee bit weird to be announcing this in Famitsu, but that's exactly what EA did. Sim City, as in THE Sim City, is due for a winter release on DS in Japan. More »
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