Maxis is 'exploring' offline mode for SimCity

SimCity may yet receive an offline mode. The latest iteration of the city management series was slammed for requiring users to play online when it launched in March, but Maxis maintained that an offline mode didn't fit with its vision for the game (after abandoning the argument that server-side calculations made it infeasible). Maxis Emeryville GM Patrick Buechner says the studio has been looking into