Gamers Click has a SimCity 4 Q&A up today, talking to Kevin Hogan about the latest incarnation of the city building game. As recently revealed, this title was delayed until early 2003.

According to the official website, the newest SimCity game, SimCity 4, has been delayed. It will now ship in January of 2003. Thanks Joe Siegler.

Some more SimCity4 action, HomeLanFed has a Q&A this morning to check out with Cliff Hicks who is working on SimCity4 and hasnt met Wil Wright yet.

The guys at FiringSquad managed to get a few more details about the upcoming SimCity4 release which just looks too purty. Just by going by version numbers, SimCity4 is at least a whole number bigger than SimCity3, which means it will be better.

Electronic Arts today has made the official announcement of SimCity4. Check that out here. The early shot scans we saw from a couple magazines sure looked purty... (story1 and story2)

Right from the start, players will experience new God-like powers of creation as they lay the groundwork for their cities by molding mountains, carving valleys, seeding forests and laying rivers. With these new landscape creation features, players can now construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. Unlike earlier games in the series, SimCity 4 cities do not live in isolation from the world, they are part of an entire region. Each city a player now creates will become part of an ever-growing tapestry of municipalities that, once connected by transportation networks, can share and compete for resources. [snip]

Over at GamePort you can find a set of SimCity 4 screenshots. They look pretty good.

Although there hasnt been an announcement made yet by Maxis, word has come out of SimCity 4. You can check out the brief blurb on Gamers.com, as well as a couple of images overe here on webdrift. All that I can make out is this:

So much of what is being put into SimCity 4 is a direct result of lessons learned from the enormous success of The Sims

In case you missed it, The Sims is now the best selling game of all time. Thanks Rob Merritt