(PC) SimCity 4
Couple of SimCity 4 Posters
Jan 24th
Graphic artist Ocean Quigley has gone back and posted a few things from his time spent on SimCity 4. He’s shared with us a city poster rendered by Shannon Galvin which they used for marketing purposes, as well as a compilation of all the vehicles in the game put together by Michael Long. Seeing this proves that we’re long overdue for a new SimCity game. One can only wish, right? 
SimCity 4 Deluxe On Sale via Steam for $5!!!!!
Nov 17th
The last great SimCity created by Maxis/EA is on sale for an insanely awesome price, Five Freakin’ Bucks!!! If you’re a SimCity fan like me(except for crappy SimCity Societies), you HAVE to get this!
Thanks to the Lazy Game Reviewer and SimsVIP for retweeting Steam’s tweet!
EA Adds SimCity 4 Patches to EA.com
Nov 5th
At first it was thought that EA made a Facebook page in response to Herman Cain ripping off his plan from SimCity 4. But now there might be new evidence that this isn’t the real reason. Whist the SimCity 4 links on different EA and Sims sites redirect to the new Facebook Page, EA has recently uploaded the patches for SimCity 4 and SC4: Rush Hour and Deluxe to their site. They include patches for all regions. Could this be a coincidence or could it be a sign that EA has interest in the SimCity franchise again? Are we making too much out of this? Will we really see a Ghostbusters III and who really shot Mr Burns?
Source: Rincón del Simmer
LGR and His Top 17 Best PC Games of the 2000′s!
Aug 19th
Over the last few weeks, LGR has done both his favorite 17 PC games of the 80′s and 90′s. Today he focuses on the 00′s. Some of my favs are in here… gotta love nostalgia.
Don’t forget that you can check out other LGR videos, including his reviews of Sims 3 Expansions and Stuff Packs on his YouTube Channel.
Ocean Quigley’s Projects: Road drawing in SimCity 4
Aug 6th
It has been a long time since Ocean Quigley (Art Director from SimCity 4) shared with us some insight on the development of the game. It’s been, what, 8 years and that game still looks amazing and is played by many. Well, he has just recently updated his blog to tell us about the road design and the different experiments he had to go thru to get it working. It took them a year alone to get them to work properly – and there are still features they wished they could have implemented (like cost feedback and bridge construction).
Direct2Drive – SimCity 4 Deluxe for $5
Dec 17th
Even though it was released 7 years ago, SimCity 4 still stands to the test of time. Direct2Drive is offering the digital download version of SimCity 4 Deluxe (which contains the base game and the Rush Hour expansion) for only $5. If you have yet to play it, I have to say this is a pretty sweet deal for such a fantastic game – and the modding community is still active thanks to Simtropolis!
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition now available on Steam
Jul 20th
If you’ve yet to play SimCity 4, well my friend, you haven’t lived your life to it’s fullest! Valve has recently added the Deluxe version of the game (which features SimCity 4 and Rush Hour) to their Steam client. I highly recommend you checking this out if you haven’t, best $19.99 you’ll ever spend.
Ocean Quigley’s Project Blog – Simcity 4 mockups of change
Apr 19th
Once again InfiniteSims has picked up on the latest post from Ocean Quigley (EA/Maxis Art Director) in which he describes the different mock-ups he used making SimCity 4 in different times of the day:
Here are a couple of design mockups I did while art-directing SimCity 4, both showing how buildings change over time.
This one shows the arc of a building’s construction, development and ultimately decay and abandonment. In SimCity, the buildings are your window onto the state of the simulation, so they needed to represent all of these states, which cumulatively tell you how well your city is doing.
And this one simply shows how buildings change over the course of a day, as their lights go off and on and the sun goes up and down. It’s the animation-test version of this design
Look what we have here: Gamasutra Game Sale Charts – Simcity at #1?!
Apr 16th
Gamasutra has published their latest PC Game Sale Charts, they’ve got a weird combination of EA games at weird places:
North American Game Sales Charts
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard)
- The Sims 3 (EA Games)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA Games)
- Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening (EA Games)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision).
The Sims 3 has won the war against all those War games.
Japanese Game Sale Charts
- SimCity 4 Deluxe (EA Games)
- Monster Hunter Frontier Online Season 7.0 Premium Package (Capcom)
- Sacred 2 (E Frontier)
- The Sims 3: High End Loft Pack (EA Games)
- The Sims 3 (EA Games)
Simcity 4 Towers the other games, including the sims 3. It’s very weird considering how old it is.
United Kingdom Game Sale Charts
- Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (Rockstar)
- The Sims 3 (EA Games)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA Games)
- Football Manager 2010 (Sega)
- Mass Effect 2 (EA Games).
Even if the Gangsters win the 1st place, at least the Sims 3 has won over Football Manager 2010… FINALLY! Thanks to InfiniteSims for the tip!
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