Maxis

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced this week that it will close Maxis Emeryville, the creator of "SimCity" and "The Sims." EA purchased the company more than a decade ago and gained control of one of the biggest PC franchises of all time. Well it was a fun 12...

As Benzinga reported last week, the release of Electronic Arts' (NASDAQ: EA) latest SimCity installment was greeted with much disdain as many gamers were having problems getting started on city construction. Server failures at EA plagued the game during its first week of release, prompting...