'Cities: Skylines' Succeeds Where EA's 'SimCity' Failed

EA saddened everyone this month when they killed the part of Maxis that was still working on the SimCity franchise, adding to a long list of developers they’d purchased and executed over the years. Though there’s a certain irony in the fact that the very same month, a game came out that was more or less exactly what the last iteration of SimCity should have been.