Maxis was the studio behind SimCity and The Sims, but it's closing its doors. So which IPs will disappear in EA's vault forever?

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I have to admit that this was a partnership that I can say that I never saw coming. It’s true though, the team responsible for creating Robot Chicken, including Seth Green and Breckin Meyer (The dude from Road Trip and Garfield) are going to be making some downloadable content for Spore that should prove to be pretty insane. To go …

Zootfly have announced that they’ve secured the rights to develop games based on Mohawk Media’s Mr. T Graphic novels. I can’t say I knew something as ludicrously awesome as Mr T comic books even existed, but now that I do there’s news of an impending game! Chuck Norris be damned! According to Zootfly, we can expect the game to feature …

  I guess all good things have to come to an end but I have to admit that I didn’t see this one coming at this time. Will Wright, the genius mind behind The Sims, SimCity and Spore has handed in his resignation to EA Games and will now be concentrating full time on his entertainment think tank “Stupid Fun …

Crazy genius creator of Sim City, The Sims and Spore Will Wright has parted ways with Maxis, the EA-owned company he co-founded. Wright will spend his time focusing on “Stupid Fun Stuff,” an entertainment think-tank he founded in 2001. Whilst amicable, the split isn’t exactly absolute; EA owns an equal number of shares in Think Tank as Wright himself, and …

Spore – The EA-published evolution sim from from SimCity and Sims creator Will Wright featured a particularly draconian online authentication method of copy protection. The Spore DRM controversy spawned a wave of anti-DRM and anti-EA sentiment, even leading to Spore becoming the most pirated game in history  (not counting the versions of Minesweeper and Solitaire that ship with Windows, of …

You will remember that earlier this year the Internet was up in arms because their latest title, Spore, was going to be using the much criticised SecuROM DRM to prevent piracy. People were upset because they could only install the game 3 times before having to phone EA customer support for new keys, now I honestly am not sure why …