" Maxis has also released games developed by other production houses, such as A-Train and SimTower.

Maxis also released some non-simulation titles, such as 1991's RoboSport and the well-known 1995 3D Pinball for Windows, which has been included as one of the standard system games in many Windows releases.

Following the closure of Kaleida Labs, Wainwright went on to serve as the principal architect of MaxScript, a scripting language for 3D Studio Max that has been used to process content for gaming and 3D applications such as the Maxis Sims programs ( see Automating The Sims Character Animation Pipeline with MaxScript ).

Andy Brick has composed and / or orchestrated music for game titles that include Maxis ’ Sim City: Rush Hour, Midway Entertainments ’ Stranglehold, Electronic Arts ’ Sims 2 and Warhammer Online: Day of Reckoning as well as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., Bungie's Halo 3, and Square Enix Final Fantasy series.

Maxis has also set up a website where players can visit the exchange part and enter a huge archive of player-designed Championship courses for players to download and play.

In 1999, Maxis introduced the popular pre-paid brand " Hotlink ", which currently has 10 Million customers.

Maxis claimed it has widest 3G / 3. 5G / HSPA coverage that covers 80 % of populated areas.

* Maran has been accused of receiving kickbacks to the tune of Rs 700 crore from Maxis Communications.

* Widget Workshop, a science-based computer game developed by Maxis

It was published by Electronic Arts ( EA ) and developed by series creator Maxis, a wholly owned subsidiary of EA.

Although the idea was deemed impractical by employees for being too graphically demanding, Maxis management pushed for the concept, and the game was developed for a year.

Tilted Mill developed the fifth sequel of the SimCity series, titled SimCity Societies ( all previous titles had been developed by Maxis ).

SimTower: The Vertical Empire ( known as The Tower in Japan ) is a construction and management simulation video game developed by OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. and published by Maxis for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS 7 operating systems in November 1994.

Notably, it is one of the few games in the Maxis series that Will Wright did not work on, and the last Maxis game to be developed and released without supervision by Electronic Arts ( which acquired Maxis in the two months leading up to release and assisted development of Maxis games thereafter ).

SimFarm: SimCity's Country Cousin, developed by Maxis in 1993, is a computer game in which players build and manage a virtual farm.

For example, city-building games such as the SimCity series of games developed and published by Maxis simulates the experience of being a mayor.

His first major game release was SimTower, developed by his previous company OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. and published by Maxis in 1994.

El-Fish is a fish and fish-tank simulator developed by Russian game developer AnimaTek, with Maxis providing development advice.

The Sims: Hot Date is the third expansion pack released for the strategic life-simulation computer game The Sims developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts.

Production of the game, its expansion packs and stuff packs were left to The Sims Studio as Maxis focused on their Spore franchise.

As Gmax was bereft of its progenitor's rendering engine, game packs were typically required to provide such a feature for Gmax if deemed necessary ( Maxis was the first company to write a dedicated renderer for their Gmax gamepack, BAT ( Building Architect Tool ) for SimCity 4 ).

Over 1998, SimCity 3000 was meddled with somewhat, but Maxis was allowed to finish the game on its own time ; following this, Wright's efforts were thrown into The Sims, at the time seen as a major gamble for the company, as the dollhouse game was not seen as a match for the video game market's demographics.

After development work for the game was concluded, Maxis ' longtime studios in Walnut Creek were officially closed in 2004, and the staff moved to EA offices in Redwood City.

Up until The Sims 2: FreeTime, the logo of Maxis was used for a button in the Options panel of the game to display the credits.

At the 2012 Game Developers Conference, EA announced a new SimCity along with a new logo for the Maxis brand.

Maxis is widely regarded for its innovating simulation games, in which there is no specific goal to the player, making its games almost endless.

SimCity Societies, the fifth main release for the franchise, was not produced by Maxis, but by Tilted Mill Entertainment, being described as a ' social engineering simulator ' and criticized for the lack of SimCity's traditional gaming formula.

* a Maxis proprietary audio format for The Sims and SimCity 3000.

SimCity 2000 was first released by Maxis in 1994 for computers running Apple Macintosh Operating System.

In 1994, Maxis released a slew of expansions for the already popular SimCity 2000.

The movies were a first for Maxis ; SimCity 2000-SE was the first " Sim " game to feature " real " videos ( compared to " animated bitmaps ", such as the winning screen in SimAnt ).

* EA Maxis — Creates and publishes casual games for gamers and non-traditional gamers.

By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning A-Train ( known in Japan as A Ressha de Ikou, or " Take the A-Train ") strategy game released for the PC and Amiga, which was published by SimCity creators Maxis.

The Maxis game SimCopter also uses this file format for ingame drive-in theaters.

In a press statement on 26 April 2012, Swamy alleged that Advantage Strategic Consulting, a company owned by Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram, received a 5 % stake in mobile operator Aircel, as a condition for the 2006 Foreign Investment Promotion Board ( FIPB ) approval of Malaysian company Maxis Communications's investment in Aircel.

Maxis is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987.

With the release of The Sims 2 in 2004, Maxis ' logo was only displayed at the back of the box as well as the title screen at the launch of the game.

In FreeTime, the Maxis logo was replaced by a symbol of the Sims plumb-bob -- the game was now being made by a newly separate division, The Sims Studio.

Maxis ' most successful series to date and the best-selling PC game of all time is The Sims ( 2000 ).

The early game Sim Ant by Maxis ( 1991 ) had resource gathering, and controlling an attacking army by having them follow a lead unit.

William Ralph " Will " Wright ( born January 20, 1960, in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts.

Prior to the acquisition of Sim developer Maxis by Electronic Arts in 1997, plans were originally made in 1996 to develop SimCity 3000 as a fully 3D game, in tune with the emergence ( at the time ) of 3D computer and video games.

" The 3D version of the game was expected to become a flop, and its future release was even thought to be the fatal blow to an already poorly performing Maxis, which had failed to release profitable titles in the years since SimCity 2000.

The second version of SC3K would receive a more positive reception during its appearance in 1998 E3, and was well-received after its release in February 1999 ( although Maxis originally intended the game to be released by Christmas 1998 ; regardless, EA willingly waited until the game was completed ).

The gate also appeared as a landmark in the Maxis PC game Simcity 3000.

The game was published in 1990 by Maxis.

SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony is a 1991 life simulation video game by Maxis and Maxis ' Third Product, focusing on ants.