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

Maxis is the creator of one of the best-selling computer games of all time, The Sims and its first sequel, The Sims 2.

Maxis was also approached by companies to design business aids ; SimRefinery is one example.

Maxis ' hit The Sims is the only notable exception.

This is confirmed in an interview with a Maxis employee on a bonus disc released with The Sims: Makin ' Magic advertising The Sims 2 and also in early packaging of SimCity 2000 Special Edition.

The interview also addresses a rumor stating that Maxis is named after " six AM " in reverse, typically the time of day that a Sim's alarm clock wakes him / her up.

The Maxis employee explains that it is just an interesting coincidence.

An easter egg programmed in SimCity 3000 displays the message " Do you know that Maxis spelled backwards is Six AM?

From The Sims 2: Seasons onwards, Maxis ' logo is completely omitted from both the box and launch screens.

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

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

This is one of few Maxis ' games to feature goals on its plot as the player must complete five different phases and reach the space-traveling technology.

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.

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

SimGolf is a computer game created by Maxis in 1996.

Even though shareholding in a large publicly listed company is easily verifiable, no evidence was produced to substantiate charges of Karti owning shares in any Maxis companies.

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.

SimTown is a 1995 video game published by Maxis, much like the best selling SimCity and The Sims but on a smaller scale.

Streets of SimCity is a 1997 racing and vehicular combat computer game published by Maxis.

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 ).

" 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.

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

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

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.

The building is also featured as a landmark building in the game Sim City 3000 by Maxis.

Maxis also provides an online Music store for its customers to download multimedia content.

Maxis was the first mobile communications company in Malaysia to be authorized to sell the Apple iPhone, later the offered was also given to its competitor DiGi.

Maxis introduce its Malaysia's first e-book service called Maxis ebooks ( or Maxis ebuuk in official website and app ).

For the first half of the decade, Maxis continued to produce expansions and sequels to The Sims, though EA's branding became more and more visible.

The first prints of The Sims featured Maxis ' logo prominently on the front, sides, and back of the box cover.

This was first seen with The Sims: Livin ' Large, where Maxis ' logo was resized with a much more prominent Electronic Arts logo placed at the bottom center of the box cover.

SimCity was Maxis ' first release and innovated the conception of gaming as there was no specific goal to be reached, meaning that it could neither be won nor lost.

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

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 ).

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 ).

* Maxis releases Will Wright's SimCity, the first of the " Sim " games and a revolutionary real-time software toy.

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

Pundits have noted that EA, unlike these previous developers, are financially backed to see the case to completion ; EA themselves have stated in the lawsuit that " Maxis isn ’ t the first studio to claim that Zynga copied its creative product.

The first five years of Maxis ' history saw them remaining with Brøderbund, before Braun added a dedicated sales force to Maxis in preparation to taking the company public.

Celcom, as one of four 3G service providers currently operating in Malaysia ( The others being Maxis Communications, DiGi Telecommunications, U Mobile )( Note: XOX, TuneTalk, are Virtual Operators ), used to have the widest 3G & HSDPA coverage in the country of 25 million people ( since overtaken by Maxis Communications ).

Maxis most popular service is its prepaid brand Hotlink, which currently serves over 8 million customers in Malaysia.

In 2002, Maxis purchased Timecel, a rival mobile service provider, from TimedotCom Berhad.

Maxis officially launched its 3G services on July 1, 2005 ( the 3G datacard service was soft-launched earlier in February 2005 ).

In Sept 2006, Maxis launched 3. 5G ( HSDPA ) as part of the " wireless broadband modem " service which is targeted at " mass market consumer / home " users ( instead of business or corporate ).