How entertainment and ‘life’ give life to The Sims
Two great minds behind The Sims reflect on what makes their series tick.
The Sims 4 bosses talk about 'Playing with Life' at GamesBeat 2014
Lucy Bradshaw and Rachel Wilson are the latest speakers for our conference on Sept. 15-Sept. 16.
Maxis: ‘Yes’ — we could ‘have built a subset offline mode’ in SimCity
A modder revealed you can continue playing SimCity even when not connected to a server. Maxis responds.
EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)
But she says the game servers can now meet demand and EA has learned valuable lessons.
The DeanBeat: It’s the community, stupid. Again.
Every company has to ask itself if its actions are good or bad for the gaming community.
EA says SimCity core server problems are ‘almost behind us’
Lucy Bradshaw, the general manager of the Maxis label at EA, has become a prolific blogger lately. She said in a post on Sunday that the core problems with getting into the always-connected single-player game are “almost behind us.”
EA improves SimCity online access with 40 times better server response times
Electronic Arts says twice as many people can play the city-building game at the same time now.
Admitting it was ‘dumb,’ EA adds SimCity servers and offers players a free game
EA has added servers and offered free games to help appease disgruntled SimCity players.
Maxis: It’s ‘fair’ that reviewers ‘punished’ SimCity for server issues
An internal memo from Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw reveals some of the developer's feelings on the launch.
Build your own SimCity on Mac this February
The new SimCity will launch for Mac as well as PC in February 2013.