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The upcoming SimCity game for PC will be getting a mobile spin-off

Electronic Arts has been showing off over the past month or so the next installment into the SimCity series of games for PC which, if I may say, looks pretty damn impressive. As a SimCity fan, next year’s game looks to be the best one yet. It’s also no secret that Electronic Arts, along with other developers, have made it rather a well known fact that most upcoming games will feature some sort of mobile tie-in, whether it be just social aspects of the game, companion apps that also affect their PC/Console counter-parts, or complete mobile versions of their games.

We already have a SimCity game for Android, called SimCity Deluxe, which was a pretty decent attempt by EA to bring the series to mobile devices. The UI was a little wonky, at least to me anyways, but overall it was a decent game. OF course it didn’t help that one of the updates broke the game, which has been fixed in case you were wondering. Anyways, it looks like we may be getting another installment of the SimCity franchise onto Android at some point.


The new SimCity Disasters trailer

Details are still pretty scare and EA really isn’t telling anyone anything and, in fact, the only reason that this was even found to be coming to mobile is because it was listed under their current list of upcoming games (Note: This is a PDF file, check Page 15) as coming to PC and mobile in 2013. The list is courtesy of their recent earnings call which shows all the expected titles coming soon from EA, including the new SimCity.

If you also look at page 11, you can see a few other upcoming titles slated for release in the near future on mobile devices which include Madden 13 Social, Monopoly Hotels, a new Simpsons game and FIFA 13 which happens to already be out for iOS I believe. Either way, after checking out Gamevil’s rather impressive list of 30 titles yesterday that will be heading out way over the next little while, it is good to know EA has some goodies planned for us as well. Hopefully, if this is a new SimCity game and not just a companion app or anything, the UI will be improved.

You can check out what the new SimCity game for the PC will look like in the video trailer above.

Website Referenced: PocketGamer

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