Occasionally we cover something that is produced by the mainstream industry, thought under exceptional terms and conditions - like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which, while funded by THQ was dragged through the long, hard bootstrap by a first-time Ukrainian company that did it because of love. Maxis is, in a very different way, another exceptional source of mainstream games, an oasis of life in a corporate desert (while Trion, across the lawn from EA HQ, is like Dubai or something, with high-tech solar panels and hydroponic gardens).
