Thursday, 19 March 2015

The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces

The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces


​Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of small Finnish game developer Colossal Order, is having a good day. When I call her, it's only been a few hours since she learned that Colossal Order's SimCity-like game, Cities: Skylines, has sold more than half a million copies in its first week. The first 250,000 of those were sold in the first 24 hours, making it the fastest-selling game its publisher Paradox Interactive has ever released. The irony here doesn't escape Hallikainen.

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