{"id":31692,"date":"2012-01-30T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31692"},"modified":"2012-01-30T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:59:56","slug":"sims-dev-working-on-new-triple-a-simulation-style-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31692-sims-dev-working-on-new-triple-a-simulation-style-game","title":{"rendered":"Sims dev working on new &#8220;triple-A simulation style game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/12239-Maxis-Software\">Maxis<\/a> is hiring! Now, I know what you&#8217;re thinking &#8211; it&#8217;s probably just another Sims game. And it probably is. But Maxis also made SimCity, and there hasn&#8217;t been a new SimCity game for almost a decade now (<em>NO<\/em>, SimCity Societies doesn&#8217;t count), so maybe&#8230; <em>maaaybe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the job posting, Maxis is looking for a graphics engineer who &#8220;will be working with a highly talented and experienced team on an upcoming triple-A simulation style game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The details include meeting &#8220;performance requirements on a wide variety of <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a>s&#8221; as well as &#8220;good knowledge of the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a> and <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-(PS3)\">PS3<\/a> rendering architectures and APIs&#8221;, so whatever it is, it&#8217;s going out this generation.<\/p>\n<p>Since SimCity 4 was released in 2003, Maxis has mostly focussed on the Sims brand (before handing it over to the Sims Studio ahead of the third game) and Spore; although 2010&#8217;s Darkspore got a bit of a tepid reception from critics.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/333810\/spore-dev-working-on-new-triple-a-simulation-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAN HAZ NEW SIMCITY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[31,2178,2180,2179],"class_list":["post-31692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-maxis","tag-simcity","tag-sims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31699,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions\/31699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}