EA has confirmed that SimCity will be available on March 7, 2013 in Australia and March 8 in New Zealand.

The reboot-of-sorts will run on EA’s new GlassBox engine, which gives the game’s simulation calculations and subsequent animations a much greater fidelity than has been seen in the series to date.

The game allows regions to house multiple cities from different players, but has drawn fire for its Internet connection requirement.

SimCity will be available on Windows PC and Mac.