A team at Maxis is exploring the possibility of making an offline mode for the always-online SimCity, because you demanded it, according to an official update on the state of the game. (But they can't offer bigger cities; hurts performance.) Previously, Maxis management had said that an offline mode was rejected as…

The hacker who made SimCity run offline now says the game's region features can run without an Internet connection, too.

This video from Maxis' Guillaume Pierre demonstrates the in-progress fixes for the game's traffic congestion problems.