SIMphoni benefited from the Spore Community Day at Maxis in Emoryville, California in a big way! On Friday August 22, Rexer joined a few other web sites in previewing Spore, the biggest game release of 2008. That weekend, daily SIMphoni visitors spiked from around 220 to over 900! Many of those visitors have stayed with [...]
Posts by Rexer
Aug
29
This video was recorded by Rex Stanfield (Rexer) of Simphoni at Maxis Studios in Emeryvile, California on Friday, August 22, 2008. As part of Spore Community Day, representatives of around a dozen fan sites were given the hands-on oppurtunity to play Spore. Afterward, a panel of key Maxis developers offered a question and answer session. [...]
Aug
29
This video was recorded by Rex Stanfield (Rexer) of Simphoni at Maxis Studios in Emeryvile, California on Friday, August 22, 2008. Caryl (MaxisLucky) Shaw demonstrates Spore two weeks before its release to a group of fan site representatives as part of Spore Community Day. The video recorded only around the first two-thirds of the demo [...]
You may have noticed over the past few days that Simphoni has added links to certain items of interest at Amazon.com. We have partnered with Amazon in several countries, and with bol.com in The Netherlands. By clicking on an item you are taken to the Amazon.com site for that item. When you purchase the item, [...]
Aug
15
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and its subsidiary Maxis Studios have announced on Thursday that their upcoming game Spore has gone gold. Maxis is the creator of some of the most popular titles in computer gaming’s history, including the SimCity and The Sims franchises. Spore is scheduled to be released the first weekend of September just three [...]
Aug
11
The forums are undergoing an upgrade to the newest version of Invision Power Boards at this time. Do not be alarmed if you see the forums disabled. Sdrawkcab is bringing us the upgrade and some new enhancements to the forums. Rexer
Aug
9
Spore is scheduled to be released the first weekend in September 2008. It promises to be an historic event in the simulation gaming community. Two weeks in advance of that release, the developer Maxis is holding a North American Spore Community Day. This special event will give site owners and staff in North America a [...]
A new edition of City Life is set to be released in Europe this weekend. It is City Life 2008 (CL2008), and it is the second in the City Life series from Monte Cristo Games of Paris, France. Jirnsum of SIMphoni found several retailers preparing to sell CL2008 beginning November 23, but SIMphoni has been [...]
Nov
17
A critique for the established SimCity fan base SimCity Societies is a fun and entertaining game, and can provide hours of computer-gaming enjoyment. Now, stop thinking of it as SimCity and that can continue to be the case. The fact is, Electronic Arts (EA) did not do this game any favors by lending the [...]
Oct
7
Dear Members of Simphoni. Some of you may have noticed that a few hours ago, on the morning of Sunday, October 7, 2007, the entire Simphoni site went down until just now. I would like to state for the record that this was a planned and necessary site outage, which was required in order to perform maintenance on the database, and [...]
