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I went with Dead Space 3. It's a 60$ dollar game so basically I see that as the best possible value (steal) from EA. I was tempted with ME3 but I prefered ME1 over 2, and 3 is most like 2 so meh. Battlefield 3 has the massive multiplayer which would have been another opiton but I am sick of shooters.

I'm told it helps to have a populated R$$ & R$$$ region before building a casino city. I just reached 100K population in my region and am about to gift $1M into developing a casino city if I can get the server to agree.

It's possible you have unfilled residential buildings in that city even though you have more skyscrapers, fewer people are living there. Did you try lowering taxes to about 3-4%? You'll need a profitable industry to offset the daily loss from taxes but it will bring people into your region. Build a city with lots of industry and little else, than replace the industry in your main cities with residential and commercial and let your Sims commute to free up space., It also looks like you have a lot of wasted space with your windmills, consider a coal plant upwind in the corner of your city or buying electricity from elsewhere.

Key factors to consider: Ignore the guides yelling at you to 'build X.' Before zoning more consider your land value, high land value means denser buildings such as small or large apartments or later skyscrapers. In my main city, before I had 25% of the map covered I had my fist residential skyscrapers already sprouting up. At that point all I had was a small school and fire station. a trash dump, and little else. If you click on your sims or building they will tell you what they want. Give them the bare minimum and wait to see what happens. Consider lowering taxes and offsetting that with a specialization like oil which will make you a lot of money. I had R$$ & R$$$ set to like 3% at that point and I went from 20K people to 75K almost overnight. In that same city industrial and demand is sky high, but they say there aren't enough workers so they end up abandoning buildings. Don't just go off of the demand graphic, it will lead you astray.

EA has a large PC game catalogue, it might be something small like bejewled. I'd rather they give us a voucher for free SimCity DLC in the future.