Tag Archives: Simulation

EA has revealed a list of games being offered free of charge to SimCity players as compensation for the title’s disaster launch. Any consumer who purchases and authenticates SimCity by March 25, 2013 at 11:59pm PST will receive a token to download a digital PC version of one of the …

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Maxis. Ire from SimCity players ebbed a bit when the game’s servers caught up (for the most part) with consumer demand and downtime and disconnections abated. Since then, anger has shifted to the root of the problem: SimCity’s need to always be …

Oh hey, were you aware that it is, in fact, showtime? This launch trailer for The Sims 3’s latest expansion shows a few of the baubles of stardom on offer for ambitious Sims – but the add-on has plenty more to uncover. Showtime aims to provide a wide range of …

Champs Les Sims is a city of culture, fine nectar, and mystery! What’s hidden in the Chateau du Landgraab? Is there something lurking underneath La Gallerie d’Art? Find out with this guide, and raise your travel Visa enough to buy a vacation home in France! Now, which way to the …

Early in December we ran a story about Minecraft developer Mojang asking fans to sign a petition on the Lego Cuusoo website, which helps Lego find new projects to Lego-ize. It’s a fairly straightforward system: anything that gets 10,000 supporters would be subject to official approval, and anything approved would …

Have you seen how good computer games have got? I mean, you look at Pong now and it’s like ‘wow’. You know? It used to look so realistic, so absolutely just like real tennis. All it would have needed was for someone to don a sweatband and question a line …

We’ll begrudgingly admit that we watched with a mixture of abject terror and pure fascination as the “stars” of Jersey Shore catapulted into the hearts, minds and hair products of the public, but not once did we ever watch an episode of the now infamous reality series and think, “I …

[Updated Photos Below] There’s always something special about fan conventions because it’s a celebration of what gets people really excited. MineCon 2011 is no different. Held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, we braved the desert heat (actually the whole thing is indoors, but it IS warm) …

After two years and four million copies later, Mojang announced the official release of Minecraft on PC today at MineCon 2011 in Las Vegas. The wildly popular sandbox game that has players punching trees and building Starship Enterprises has become a global phenomenon, thanks to platforms like Youtube where players …

It’s not easy being a horse, especially a horse working at GamesRadar. Lunchtime is the loneliest. Everyday my cordial offerings of healthful oats and fresh carrots are ignored by my human co-workers. As soon as noon arrives, it’s always burritos this, or hamburgers that. The average equine only lives about …