I didn't expect many people would've believed the news item about Maxis being broke. If you did believe it though, then you should've double-checked the date. Of course it was an april fool joke. Maxis has not canceled anything except SimsVille, and they will be continuing with what they're doing now. No staff-cuts will be made. Basically: nothing of it is true. The Sims sold 6.3 million times, and with that it's the best-selling PC game ever. Needless to say they will have had enough income of that to continue for a couple of years...