The return of the sh*ts… The hackers that hit many games and services like the Playstation Network, Twitch and “League of Legends” and who issued a bomb threat to SOE president John Smedley have struck again. After a supposed breakup of the group and some arrests by the ‘Feds’, they…
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Retro Monday: SimCity 3000
Title: SimCity 3000 Developer: Maxis Publisher: EA Released: January 31st 1999 After two weeks of talking about the new consoles and saying how bland rather than bad they are, I think it’s time to cleanse my palate and your eyes with a PC game from the years of yonder. By…
Read MoreTGOTI – Creative Director of “SimCity” Leaves EA Maxis
That Guy Off The Internet (aka Wil Morris) You may remember when “SimCity” was released earlier in the year. You may remember the internet, including me, ranting and raving about the yes/no DRM and server problems. Well the creative director, Ocean Quigley, lead architect, Andrew Willmott and lead gameplay engineer, Dan…
Read MoreSimcity (2013) [Maxis] Review
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp This is a difficult review to write, and it’s one that could develop into a much larger and less pleasant beast. For that exact reason I’ll try and keep the actual gameplay assessment in the first half and then go for it in the second…
Read MoreA Week In Gaming News [12th – 18 March]
Well that’s another week done. So here’s more gaming news! Yay for you! Some may ring similar from last week… ehemm, SimCity… But other than that, standard week. Here is the News! Micro-transactions Come To COD; On Wednesday a new menu appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. In the…
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Snoop Dogg Does Fighting Games; Considering he has had a stage and a song in “Tekken Tag Tournament 2” last year [and has already been in fighting games before if you take “Def Jam: Fight For New York“] Dogg has teamed up with Echo Peak and 505 Games to release a game called “Way of…
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