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But McMillen tells Ars Technica that Nintendos decision only came after months of discussion. During that time, the company expressed a serious desire to release a port of the PC game. In discussing his dealings with Nintendo, McMillen paints a picture of a company struggling with real internal divisions over the best way to expand the breadth of its content while maintaining its squeaky clean image.

Of course they want to feed this demographic that is starving for games and leaving them to go to other consoles, he continued, and I know for a ct there are a lot of people there that want to get away from the image of Nintendo being just a kiddy system, because of course that hurts them. But in the end I think this might have just been too risky for their system, because their core is a mily-friendly atmosphere. You can do weird, but you cant do [all this].

Heres why Nintendo said no, McMillen said. Go to any website that talked about it and read the comments and look at the ing religious wars that happen in it. Thats why [they rejected the game], because people are too ing stupid to realize their opinions are isolated to themselves and dont apply to others. The end. Fuck off.

 

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Got hyped when I saw SC5 was announced but then I remembered Maxis and EA are affiliated these days. Wont be buying this unless it pops up on Steam, which I know wont be happening.

Awesome, definitely getting this game. Love SimCity, bringing back memories of it on the nintendo 64. Great recommended specs, should run like a dream on any modern PC.

Nice, I could dig a computer out of the trash and play the new SimCity on it.

who wants to bet EA will NOT let users mod ANYTHING in SimCity to keep community uniform ie so EA can make money off DLC instead of modders keep our games alive year after year?

On Wednesday Maxis said that SimCity was built from the ground up to support online gameplay. The team also mentioned play anywhere, meaning that gamers can play SimCity across a variety of different devices. This is interesting given the PC-focused announcement released early Wednesday morning. However theres speculation that the game will be playable on devices with a web browser, although the fully-featured version will likely reside as an installed application on the PC.

Intel 4100 Integrated Graphics or better

 

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Ultrabooks offer a close comparison in terms of features and benefits while still fitting the mold of the traditional PC. The MacBook Air is a huge success, and it seems like there is significant demand for the comingonslaught of Windows-based ultrabooks.

But, I digress. Back toTablets Won't Kill the PC, Just Replace It gaming laptops tablets. The advent of tablets may be a harbinger of doom for traditional operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X, but not for PCs. The tablet is a PC itself--it is a device or platform a person uses for computing.

Neither had notebooks or ultrabooks done that. But they certainly are tantamount to different form ctors for the personal computer.

If you want more evidence that tablets are thegaming laptops next evolution of PCs rather than a conquering hoard intent on crushing the PC market, just look at Apple and Microsoft. Both of the major desktop operating systems are being merged and transformed to adapt to the new mobile world--evolving to meet the needs of the latest PC form ctor.

 

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