Pallet Town, the home of Professor Oak and a total of 8 people might be small with its original three buildings, but that's just the right size to make a Sims version possible. » 9/22/14 9:20am 9/22/14 9:20am

Killing someone with a candlestick might be impossible in The Sims 4, but apart from that, everything looks perfect in raiderofawesome and PushingUpRoses' recreation of the Boddy Mansion from the murder mystery board game Clue (or Cluedo for Europeans). » 9/17/14 6:30am 9/17/14 6:30am

Everything looks really authentic—well, except maybe Jerry's hair—in IanRoach's The Sims 4 version of the cast of Seinfeld and their places. » 9/05/14 10:00am 9/05/14 10:00am

Sure beats sitting behind a desk. » 1/21/14 11:00pm 1/21/14 11:00pm

Maybe moving to the big city to be a Disney City Girl wasn't such a good idea. My apartment is a hovel compared to the palace Jenna has, and even that's stretching my budget to the limit. My boss will give me extra money for washing dishes if I dress in active wear, but he doesn't pay me enough to buy new clothes. My… » 1/17/13 3:05pm 1/17/13 3:05pm

I would never have enjoyed playing Don't Die Dateless, Dummy! if I had played it alone. And yet on Saturday, I stopped by the Revision3 offices in San Francisco to help keep them going on their 24-hour Extra Life charity drive. We played the game. And I enjoyed myself quite a bit. » 10/24/12 9:00pm 10/24/12 9:00pm

Taiwan's Next Media » 10/05/12 5:30am 10/05/12 5:30am, famous for its like news recreations, totally pissed off Cathay Pacific when it ran a video showing male passengers pleasuring themselves in business class.

Some URL sleuthing by the domain-watching site Fusible revealed that the domain familyville.com has changed hands and hosts in a manner similar to URLs for Zynga properties like Cityville. » 6/25/11 1:00pm 6/25/11 1:00pm

Word from Electronic Arts today is that Maxis, the studio behind The Sims and Spore, suffered layoffs today. No word on how many people were affected. EA described the cuts as an attempt to "focus" the studio. » 8/26/09 7:00pm 8/26/09 7:00pm

You should be keeping tabs on The Sims 3, if only because it'll be cluttering up the PC sales charts for the next five years once it's released this June. » 4/28/09 8:40pm 4/28/09 8:40pm

Two people filed suit in federal court against Electronic Arts back in October, alleging the SecuROM digital rights management installed on their machines by a trial version of Spore Creature Creator, and a full version of the Sims, constitutes unlawful and deceptive business practices. These two suits, reported today… » 11/08/08 5:00pm 11/08/08 5:00pm

The latest issue of the Escapist » 10/26/08 5:30pm 10/26/08 5:30pm deals with god games, most of which are quite grand in scale. John Carr, however, looks at the micro god game — in this case, , Will Wright's first foray into games decidedly small in scale — and declares its inspiration (childhood games of playing god with hapless insect) the…

This hits close to home, because home is a shithole (that's what $1500 rents you in Silicon Valley) and I'll soon be paying IKEA plenty to make it look less so, because it's right around the corner in the East P.A. and I can't afford Ethan Allen. And if you want to trick out your Sims pad with BJARNUM or HENSVIK or… » 6/29/08 11:00am 6/29/08 11:00am