SimCity Videos

Now that SimCity is finally offline, it looks like it can properly modded and the Mods are starting to pop on Simtropolis.  The Current state of the SimCity 2013  Mod Community on Simtropolis , As of 3.26.2014; Simtropolis by the numbers... 76 Mods   - and modders are updating these all the time. 6 Buildings  - mostly growables & transportation for now.  215,636 - number of mod downloads since 4.2013.   65,247 - number of building downloads since 9.2013. Mod Highlight: MaxisGuillaume having modded 6 mods himself. Including the Extended Worker Data in Rollover Mode. Screened below, which can show many workers each Civic, commercial and industrial can have. Along with displaying how many shoppers and tourist commercial can have. And the same for residential buildings, as it shows the current number of workers, shoppers and kids and students. Mod highlight: Do you miss those information graphs from SimCity 4? Thanks to schaefj...

From YouTube User:  strictoaster The city of Riverbend. It's one of the cities in the region I'm playing (bit.ly/1dlkLiL), the layout was created beforehand and the simulation run from start to end specifically for this video. Total gameplay:  2:30 hrs (approx)

Don't know what changed in update 2.0 check out the video review & patch notes.  Plus with update 3.0 coming out very soon, i'll be on the lookout for a good video review for it. Read all the 2.0 patch notes. Additionally  Update 2.1 Fixed  City Processing:  Fix for some issues that have caused cities not to process. Updated 2.2: Addressed a number of crashes. 

Sometime this afternoon EA finally created a page with "live" server status. So now technically before playing you can check the status page before playing so you can get a feel of what server is available to play on.    Screen of the new page below. *Also this blog has a link in the top menu to this page as well.* 

Here some great getting started tips & tricks from Diablo Pablo from the newest SimCity. 

In this video Diablo Pablo reviews the new SimCity game! He gives it an impressive 10/10, would play again.

This newest video shows off just what the railroads can do.

Over the hill Into the valley

Oceanquigley has been posting a couple videos showing off the in game video capture feature. This one is a pan across an oil field. Also the screen shot forum has over 70 pages of discussion and screens to look at. Link right above ^

Check out the newest trailer for SimCity 2013. It was just released on Jan 8th 2013.

The trailer features four disaster for the new game. And finally we get a preview of bigger cities than we've recently seen in previous gameplay videos & trailers. 

In case you missed it! Here's the video from the 'MAXIS Live Broadcast' that they put on yesterday talking about the Sims 3 and of course the Simcity 2013. The part with Simcity starts around the 35min mark.  Video streaming by Ustream

Check out the first look at gameplay as Lead Designer Stone Librande walks through the basic strategies of SimCity 2013. 

FerryV, a user from simtropolis gave a first hand account of his hands on experience with SimCity 2013 Alpha at GamesCom.

EA had their little thing today at E3 and finally updated the Simcity website with new screens, game features and videos. With this video being the center of attention. Plus SimCity now kind of has a release date of February 2013 and box art! Additionally SimCity Social was also announced today for Facebook! And from the looks of their newly launched Facebook page with the slogan "More City. Less Ville".  Hopefully it will actually be better than cityville. I guess we'll find out latter this summer...