EA's shutting down Maxis Emeryville, home of SimCity and Spore
The studio originally behind SimCity, The Sims, and Spore is shutting down. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Electronic Arts has confirmed that it's closing Maxis' Emeryville location and redistributing its portion of the work on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Sims 4 and SimCity to other Maxis branches.
The studio has expanded significantly in terms of headcount and geography since it was co-founded💟 by Will Wright in 1987 and acquired by Electronic Arts in 1997. Though the original SimCity was highly influential, Maxis found its greatest success yet with the releas⛄e of The Sims in 2000.
Since The Sims 3, the life simulating frꦑanchise has been co-developed by The Sims Studio, a separate unit which is part of EA's main Redwood City, C💫alifornia campus.
Wright lef🎶t Maxis in 2009, and the Emeryville location's two most notable recent games, Spore and SimCity (2013), both found lukewarm receptions. Even with that in mind, it's still shocking to think that one of the most influen⛦tial studios of all time is no more.
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