Electronic Arts revealed SimCity at the Game Developers Conference last night, confirming the many rumors that had been circulating for the past week.
The new entry in the city-building simulation series will be developed by Maxis and is expected sometime in 2013. The game will be exclusive to the PC platform and will run on the new GlassBox engine, a “revolutionary simulation technology that gives you the power to impact individual Sims lives, manage city level simulation, and balance multiple city simulations at once,” according to EA.
New features coming to the game include curving roads, specialization in certain industry’s as well as a multiplayer mode in which cities interact to form regions.
“We’re building a simulation that really captures the world we live in today, where your decisions go beyond the boundaries of the city,” said Maxis Senior Vice President Lucy Bradshaw at the EA event in San Francisco last night.
You can check out the announcement trailer for SimCity below.
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