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Simcity Societies Patch 1.5 Released (News)

May 26, 2008

Simcity Societies has been patched to version 1.5 bringing six new scenarios.

The SimCity Box to include Spore Creature Creator (News)

Apr 15, 2008

From the article: "Sims fans who purchased SimCity Societies and SimCity 4 may want to sit down. Are you seated? Good. I have some bad news for you, but just buckle down, you'll make it through. Of course its good news for other Sims fans who waited to get those games. EA will be selling SimCity 4, SimsCity 4 Rush Hour, SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations and The Sims Carnival SnapCity altogether as in The SimCity Box for $39.99. The big bundle will be available in June, 2008. Oh, and according to Amazon, the box includes a trial version of the Spore Creature Creator."

SimCity Societies Patch 4 Released (News)

Apr 10, 2008

A new patch is now available for SimCity Societies. The 123 MB update adds two more disasters, six new events, new buildings, and also takes care of some more bugs.

SimCity Societies Patch released (News)

Mar 5, 2008

Tilted Mill Entertainment released the third patch for SimCity Societies today. It weighs in at 68 MBs, and includes a variety of UI and performance enhancements. It also adds in a new feature - a UFO attack disaster.

SimCity Societies expands (News)

Feb 21, 2008

SimCity Societies: Destinations is the first expansion pack for EA's SimCity Societies and is set to release in May. Adding a holiday theme to the original game, Destinations features a number of new locales that allows players to create "the perfect vacation spot". No prizes for guessing that you have to lure in travellers from around the globe by building and managing a city or town based on irresistible attractions and amenities. ...

SimCity Societies Patch Offers Better Performance, UFO (News)

Jan 29, 2008

Electronic Arts and Tilted Mill are set to release another overhaul patch for SimCity Societies, and this time, they promise to solve performance issues, among other additions and fixes.

Most important among these is the new disaster. Always ready to slake the player's desire to wreak havoc upon his or her city, EA has added an alien attack to Societies' rather meager selection of calamities. Clicking the appropriate button summons a cute, powder-blue flying saucer that proceeds to Independence Day whatever buildings it lights upon, effectively annihilating it and any adjacent structures.

SimCity Societies - Launch trailer 11-26-07 (Video)

Nov 26, 2007

In this SimCity, the focus is much more on the Sims than the city, but that may not exactly be a bad thing.

SimCity Societies - UK trailer 11-15-07 (Video)

Nov 15, 2007

In this SimCity, the focus is much more on the Sims than the city, but that may not exactly be a bad thing.

SimCity Societies (Review)

Nov 13, 2007

Nov 13, 2007 Would the hardcore SimCity communities please put away their pitchforks and torches? SimCity Societies is definitely an extreme change from previous mainline SimCity titles - did developer Tilted Mill Entertainment ever once say that they wanted to do just another city management rehash? - but it also happens to be a worthy branching off of the unbelievably popular brand. Societies takes a cue from The Sims by keeping gameplay light and simple but also playfully open-ended. If ...

SimCity Societies - Small town 11-08-07 (Video)

Nov 8, 2007

In this SimCity, the focus is much more on the Sims than the city, but that may not exactly be a bad thing.

SimCity Societies Goes Gold (News)

Nov 1, 2007

Today Electronic Arts announced that SimCity Societies has been approved for manufacturing and is expected to begin shipping to stores across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe on November 13th. It is rated "E10+" by the ESRB and has a manufacturer suggested retail price of $49.99.

In SimCity Societies, you construct not only the cities you desire, but create their cultures, societal behaviors and environments as well. Build an artistic city, authoritarian dictatorship, spiritual community or most any society you want in SimCity Societies.

SimCity Societies - updated impressions (Preview)

Oct 25, 2007

Oct 25, 2007 How difficult can it be to stimulate an economy and please everybody all the time? The original SimCity games tasked you with making a healthy dose of greenbacks by increasing the population and number of buildings despite the occasional tornado or Godzilla mucking things up. Not so in SimCity Societies, EA's radical reinvention of the franchise. Rather than crafting only one type of burg to rack up cash and Mayoral popularity, EA has given you the tools to erect a city with a ...

SimCity Societies (Screenshots)

Oct 25, 2007

New screens, new tone for SimCity Societies (News)

Oct 10, 2007

Oct 10, 2007 A new construction set of SimCity Societies screenshots has been accompanied by some educational news about the game. EA, it seems, has teamed up with BP (British Petroleum) to educate us on climate change. "The low-carbon electricity choices and monitoring of SimCity's carbon emissions provide an entertaining, fully-integrated and accurate look at some of the causes and some of the major solutions available to combat rising levels of carbon and to help address the threat of ...

SimCity: Societies - new screens (News)

Jul 19, 2007

SimCity: Societies is a departure for the series in more ways that one. See for yourself with these new screens. Not only is it not being handled by Maxis, but there's no planning of residential and commercial zones, no laying o' pipes and cables and no little mayor giving you tips. Instead, it's dragging and dropping prefab houses, businesses, corrupt police stations and coffee bars onto a map - and your culture or urban persona you create is reflected in the music and detail of your ...

SimCity Societies (Preview)

Jul 5, 2007

First things first: the name. This is, for all intents and purposes, SimCity 5. The very desktop shortcut EA used to launch the demo was labeled so. The Societies part is there to denote a shift of emphasis away from zoning - painting large areas of land with broad "residential" or "commercial" strokes - and toward choosing every building in your city personally, and focusing them into smaller districts - societies. It's more about building communities of people and managing their mood than ...

Crysis, Bioshock & Tabula Rasa in PCGZine #7 (News)

Jun 28, 2007

The free digital magazine includes previews of Bioshock and Crysis, as well as an interview with Richard Garriott about the new MMO, Tabula Rasa. The man who invented MMOs is hoping to re-invent them.

SimCity: The next generation (News)

Jun 13, 2007

SimCity Societies will hit PCs in November this year and revolutionize the city-building series in the process. With its totally overhauled gameplay, Societies will enable you to create your own unique, dynamic and interactive SimCity society from a dystopian nightmare to a utopian dream. Buildings can now be rearranged and combined with other structures, avoiding the cloned look of previous SimCity creations. There's a staggering 350 types of building, with huge variety, and your choice of ...

EA resurrects SimCity (News)

Jun 5, 2007

A new game in the much-loved SimCity PC series is to be revealed in the next official Games for Windows magazine. Seeing as the mag's not on the shelves yet, we know pretty much nothing about the new SimCity. But according to a listing on Gamestop, the fifth installment is called SimCity Societies, which suggests a stronger focus on the people living inside your virtual metropolis. As for what we'd like to see in SimCity 5, a shift in focus to more European cities would be nice, and if it ...

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Dec 7, 2007

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