SimCity
Play the Long-Lost 'SimRefinery' Game Maxis Made for Chevron
The company behind ‘The Sims’ spent a few years making simulations for businesses.
I Tried to Build a New Capital in SimCity. It Didn't Turn Out Well
No one said it was going to be easy.
The Modder Who Spends Hundreds of Hours Building Trees for 'Cities: Skylines'
The influence of Bob Ross knows no bounds.
'This is the Police' Is Like 'SimCity' for Dirty Cops
With six months to retirement, it’s time to start sullying your good name.
Sim Bhullar Is Freaking Huge and Determined to Return to the NBA
At 7-foot-5 and nearly 400 pounds, Sim Bhullar was hard to miss. After a brief cameo with the Kings last year, the NBA's first Indian player is determined to get in shape and get back to the league.
The Real Mayors of 'SimCity'
In 1990, all the candidates for mayor in Providence, Rhode Island, played a game of SimCity—why don't we make all our politicians do the same?
I’m Going to Hell Because I Played SimCity Like an Asshole
As a kid, would build SimCity metropolises with the same goal that most children make sandcastles: to destroy them.
Cook Meth and Build a Drug Empire in This Breaking Bad Simulator
I knock, you knock, we all knock for blue rock.
How Real Is Reality? It's Rather Hard to Tell
The very fact that the world is so difficult to replicate is part of the reason we intuit that the real world is actually real.
Let's Blow Some Shit Up: A Brief History of Cathartic Destruction in Video Games
From demolishing buildings with dynamite to simply punching stuff apart, games have addressed violently destroying things in very different ways over the years.