It's kinda sad to me but Maxis is not involved in the new 
SimCity: Societies. Gamespot has 
confirmed this as the Maxis group is working on 
Spore and churning out as many 
Sims expansions as humanly possible. Com'on guys, take a break from trying to milk the 
Sims franchise and have some of those guys work on the game whose predecessors put you on the map.