SimCity game designer Stone Librande was encircled by some of the foremost thinkers in urban planning. Twenty minutes earlier, Librande was helping children proceed through the game’s tutorial.

When SimCity launched on March 6, it required players to maintain an active online connection to the game's servers. If that connection dropped, they'd be booted from the game.

Even once SimCity was working properly, many gamers continued to criticize EA about the inability to play SimCity when not connected to the servers. That didn’t stop 1.6 million from purchasing ...

When you start actively working against other online players, the fun really gets going ...

SimCity sales at 1.6 million since launch. Despite the well documented problems of SimCity when it released, Electronic Arts trumpeted 1.1 million in sales two weeks after launch.

Company says it simply "couldn't achieve" larger city sizes, however. Read the whole story ...

Despite its botched launch and less than stellar reviews, SimCity went on to sale a respectable 1.6 million units, according to EA's latest quarterly financial report.

Don't dog capitalism. EA is just trying to make money, but the problem is, they're being rewarded by gamers for bad behavior, so they have zero incentive to change. The only solution is to STOP ...

SimCity sold more than 1.6 million units since its launch in March, with more than half of them digital sales through the Origin service.Gibeau said the game is “far ahead” of the company’s ...

He points out how some of the game’s most popular hacks don’t work at all in real life. Putting a coal plant in the corner of your map protects a SimCity from much of its pollution, but in the ...

March's SimCity release sold 1.1 million copies in its first two weeks, but the pace has slowed. The game has now pushed 1.6 million, according to a year-end earnings report from publisher ...

SimCity 5 was revealed during a suspiciously vague event tonight billed simply as “EA Game Changers,” with the potentially hyperbolic tagline of “Power to Change a World Together.” ...