I don’t know what to think, and I’ve been following the discussions all day long. Sim City 5 (which after all, lets face it, was bound to be released sooner or later) has been farmed out from EA (which puchased Maxis some time back) to Tilted Mill Entertainment. In other more shocking news, it’s also having a name change to SimCity Societies.
With the change of developers, the first thought that comes to mind is “I hope they don’t damage my beloved SC”, but with the name change I am expecting a whole different direction for the series, in which case nobody will know if it’s been damaged at all. I’ve not really had a chance to play Caesar IV (which came from Tilted Mill Entertainment), but from the threads I’ve read today, some people don’t think it’s that great. Aww, please don’t break it!
Right now, I’m interested in is Screenies and lots of them. I want snippets of news, and drips of features, above all , I want to know what this game is going to entail. Please feel free to let me know anything you might have?!?!?
On topic, I was trying to install SimCity 4 on my Debian box last night using Wine (which installed OK, but refused to run) and with cvscedega which gave me a rather dull, but very peaceful black screen. If sombody involved in the new game is listening out there, plead my case, release a Linux binary, I’ll be your friend 
I for one welcome our new society driven mayor overlords!
I’m not much of a gamer, but I am a big fan of Larry, and SimCity. I don’t know what this says about me, and I think I’d rather not know.
I am sure you have already look at EA’s site for screen shots.
But there are some brilliant screen shots over on simtropolis.com and alot more over on uksimmers.com.
Not sure if it’s me or not but a few of the images look a bit basic, it’s probably because it’s still in its development stage, but the majority of them look fantastic. this is going to be one graphic hungry game, looks like I will have to upgrade my graphics card again.