Juan-Pablo Velez is a freelance data journalist and member of Open City, a civic tech collective. Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the City of Chicago is embracing open data to fuel civic innovation — the ...

I was eight years old when I first encountered a computer game called SimCity. The general premise of the game was that you were the mayor of a virtual city, and you would use game money to create a ...

There have been so many debates recently over the issues with the new Sim City title. The issues with the game have been so wide spread, so highly publicised, and a combination of being blown out of ...

Max has loved video games ever since he booted up his friend's N64 and played Mario Kart. He quickly spent all his allowance on any game he could get his hands on, and spent hours playing a dusty PS2.

City building games have gotten ever more intricate. But if it's realism you want, you can't go wrong with Sim Nimby. The online parody of Sim City doesn't have particularly impressive graphics or ...

With the anniversary of SimCity, we dug into our archives for our coverage of the iconic game. The mayor needed a martini: Frazzled freeway commuters were shooting at each other, rioters were ...

Pocket City costs $4.99 to download from the Google Play Store, but it does not have any in-app ads or purchases. There's also a free demo version. As your city grows, you also have to keep track of ...

REDWOOD CITY, CA. - February 21, 2007 - Today Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) unveiled SimCity Societies Destinations*, the first city pack in the popular SimCity Societies line-up of games. The ...

In the newest version of SimCity, players must address homeless populations—and their strategies aren't always pretty. (Electronic Arts Inc.) Meteors. Volcanoes. Aliens. Anyone who grew up playing ...

MITroit’s volunteer firefighters were bravely extinguishing the string of household fires that had broken out in neighboring Champignon. Champignon, a blue-collar enclave whose economy was built upon ...

There's nothing quite as satisfying as a well-managed production chain. Or at least, so I'm told. The coal-to-electricity complex I've designed is supposed to do three things: extract raw coal from ...