SimCity 5 News of the Day

The next installment of SimCity won't be available exclusively on EA's Origin service, the company has announced. EA says the city-building game will be sold on other digital distribution platforms and at retail stores, although a complete list hasn't been announced yet.

The bad news is that players will still have to be logged in to Origin to play the game, ostensibly because every SimCity player will influence the regional and global economies in the game's simulated world