1，据venturebeat的消息称EA Mobile旗下的SimCity BuildIt下载量超过4000万，这可能是整个SimCity系列中玩家最多的一款游戏。

尽管SimCity BuildIt的免费模式玩法设定也遭受了非常多的市场非议，特别是整个游戏的流畅体验程度和商用性紧密捆绑到了一起。

SimCity BuildIt（from venturebeat.com ）

2，据venturebeat的消息称，Amazon近几年一直在筹划着进军游戏市场，包括早些年在移动游戏领域的发力，而现在按照说法他们同样想在PC game方面有更多的作为。

flickr-jeff-bezos-amazon（from venturebeat.com）

3，据games industry的消息称Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe对外宣称Project Cars销售超过百万份。（本文由游戏邦编译，转载请注明来源，或咨询微信zhengjintiao）

Project Cars（from gamesindustry.biz）

1，EA Mobile’s SimCity BuildIt launched about six months ago on Dec. 16. Almost 40 million people worldwide have played it since then, EA Mobile vice president and group general manager Jason Willig said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat, making it potentially the biggest SimCity title ever created. Most of those users are from outside the United States, and engagement and retention statistics are “very high,” he said.

“I think SimCity BuildIt has taken off for a number of reasons: First and foremost, it was made by a deeply experienced team with incredible creative and technical horsepower,” he said. BuildIt was crafted by EA Mobile’s studio tracktwenty in Helsinki, Finland. “[The] design is native to the mobile platform from the ground up, versus a PC port, incorporating elements like crafting, short sessions, and a balance of linear and sandbox gameplay.

“Those aspects, in combination with more traditional SimCity brand pillars like disasters, services and specializations, all wrapped in a gorgeous, 3D package, really spoke to consumers.” （source：venturebeat.com ）

2，Amazon has wanted to become a major force in the video game scene for years. And now, it’s hired a dream team of video game developers who are working on “an ambitious new PC game project using the latest technology,” it says.

The company revealed this information in a series of recruiting ads on video game site Gamasutra. It’s looking to hire more developers.

In the ad, Amazon says it has already nabbed folks who worked on such games as Portal, World of Warcraft, BioShock, Half Life 2, Left for Dead, Dota 2, Halo, Infamous, Shadows of Mordor and The Last of Us.

They are building new games that will use Amazon’s cloud (Amazon Web Services), Twitch (the video site that broadcasts gameplay that Amazon bought in 2014 for $940 million) and “technical innovation to radically evolve gameplay,” the ad says.（source：venturebeat.com ）

3，It seems the numerous delays that plagued the release of Project Cars didn’t discourage consumers. The game has now sold over one million copies, according to Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe.

“Throughout the development of Project Cars the community were instrumental in guiding the game – giving us feedback daily on each build iteration, telling us what needed improving, highlighting what they’d like to see included, and ultimately approving it as the racing game of their dreams,” said studio head of Slightly Mad Studios Ian Bell.

“Even with this amount of early indication that the bold, ambitious vision we had was on track to be something that would truly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the existing leading titles in the genre, it wasn’t until the first review scores came in that we truly realised how much Project Cars had resonated with both media, racing professionals, and gamers alike around the world. To now stand here having reached over a million players in such a short time really justifies the work both the team and the community have done over the years and solidifies Project Cars’ future as the multi-platform racing experience of choice for fans around the world.”

Slightly Mad Studios is currently working on a Wii U version of the game.

Project Cars was originally due for release on November 18 2014. It was then pushed back to March 2015, then April 2 on PC and April 7 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was released on May 7 and went straight to the top of the UK charts, becoming the first racing game to take first place since GRID 2 in 2013.（source：games industry ）