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A new update for SimCity 4 NAM, the comprehensive Network Addon Mod, solves an agonizing bug and significantly optimizes your city building. Read the full story on PCGamesN: SimCity 4's biggest labor of love mod just fixed a 23-year-old frustration
2024-05-05 16:34 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
With Cities Skylines 2 struggling to find its feet amid a host of early problems, now feels like a good time to revisit the series that preceded it. EA's 2013 soft-reboot that was essentially SimCity 5 landed to widespread negative reactions, opening the door for Colossal Order to step in as the go-to realistic city-building simulation. But prior to that fall, the series had long been the epochal city builder, and if you missed it at the time or fancy revisiting it, you can get the best of them all, SimCity 4, at a big discount right now. Read the rest of the story...
2024-02-19 00:09 UTC · PC Gamer · Jonathan Bolding
SimCity 4 modders are making previously-unheard-of DLL plugins and mods due to recent advances, enabling changes of tweaks to how it runs that prior modders would have considered impossible. Over the past few months these types of deep, game-altering mods, previously restricted to just a couple famous examples, have proliferated into dozens of tweaks to quality of life and brand new game features... Read more.
2016-09-15 17:10 UTC · Product Release · Valve
Save up to 75% on select titles during the ASPYR 20th Anniversary Weekend*! Titles Include: Borderlands 2 Civilization Beyond Earth Modern Warfare 3 Homeworld Remastered Collection Bioshock Infinite STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords Layers of Fear SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition And More! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
2016-08-15 17:01 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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2015-01-07 18:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 75% on SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
2014-02-05 18:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 75% on SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
2013-04-28 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 75% on SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
2012-03-08 12:32 UTC · PC Gamer
EA Maxis have been talking more about next year's SimCity reboot, and the new GlassBox engine that's powering it. Just earlier we went inside the GlassBox engine to talk a bit about how the new tech will work differently to SimCity games of old, but there's even more good news. Shacknews sat in on a GDC panel in which Maxis confirmed that the new engine has been designed with modders in mind. Creative director Ocean Quigley said that the new SimCity will use the "same package format The Sims and SimCity 4 used," which means it'll be more familiar to seasoned SimCity tweakers. "We know moddin
2012-02-21 12:45 UTC · PC Gamer
A tweet from EA senior PR Erik Reynolds, noted by CVG, has teased a big Maxis reveal at this year's GDC conference, which is due to kick off in just a few weeks time. He mentions that more information will be appearing over the next few weeks on the Game Changers Facebook page but there's already rampant speculation suggesting that it'll be a new SimCity. We'll get to find out in 13 days, 20 hours and counting according to the reassuringly massive clock on the Game Changers page, where EA's GDC event will be broadcasted live to the world in just under two weeks time. Anyone up for some more
2011-11-17 18:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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2010-11-18 17:22 UTC · PC Gamer
I’m losing more than $10,000 a minute. My citizens hate me because I’ve had to sell all the Ferris wheels. They leave in droves and I spiral further and further into debt. In city-building sim Cities XL 2011, it’s easy to lose, but you can never really win. You have to work hard to turn a profit and keep everyone happy. You build your cities by sketching out districts (housing, shopping and industrial) onto a sizeable map. Citizens are divided into four classes: Unskilled Workers, Skilled Workers, Executives and Elites. While they all have the same basic needs, they also require good access
2010-07-20 18:18 UTC · Product Release · Valve
Now you can enjoy all the excitement of SimCity 4 on Steam! Get SimCity 4 and SimCity 4 Rush Hour in one convenient package. Create, grow, and breathe life into your ideal urban environment. Fight disasters both realistic and fantastic. Govern your own virtual metropolis as you see fit.
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