You read that right, although it should come as no surprise since Maxis has reiterated several times that SimCity requires servers to support it’s specific gameplay features. This was in response to a tweeted question where a user asked about what will happen after the SimCity servers are taken offline after a few years.
Maxis also spoke with Polygon in an article regarding the technical issues of SimCity’s launch, in … [ Read More... ]
Xi3, the company that Valve backed for compact computer development has announced the price of Piston, it’s first unofficial Steam Box. It’s scheduled for a Holiday 2013 release date, with a price of $999.99. If you preorder Piston before March 18, 2013 you can get it for $900. Piston is a compact, Linux based gaming PC that is especially designed to work with Steam’s Big … [ Read More... ]
We love cyberpunk around here, well, at least I do. Check out this great looking gameplay video of the new Shadowrun, Shadowrun Returns.
As you can see, Shadowrun Returns is composed of top-down, isometric graphics, which hearkens back to the Sega Genesis and SNES classics. It looks especially good if you consider that is just “alpha” gameplay footage, meaning it’s not even in the beta stages yet. Comments … [ Read More... ]
Thanks to a host of server issues with the internet required SimCity (2013) reboot, EA is putting a hold on advertising for the highly anticipated game. Servers being added, patches and features being disabled are some of things that are happening with SimCity. Players are complaining and requesting refunds constantly because they’re unable to sign on and play the game. Even Amazon is disabling the downloadable version of the … [ Read More... ]