The first rumored screenshots of Sims 4 hit web forum NeoGAF (not officially though, so handle them carefully!). There's this one particular image with a facial expression that says more than a thousand words. That's one unhappy Sim!
I Might Not Have What it Takes to Be a Disney City Girl
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…
This Weird, Bad Xbox Dating Game Is Brilliant To Play With Friends
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.
Is 'Familyville' Zynga's Answer to The Sims on Facebook?
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.
Maxis Hit With Job Cuts, EA Confirms
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.
Mommy Dearest: The Best and Worst Mothers in Video Games
Mothers have it tough in video games – they get killed off, turned evil, or their children leave the nest to save the world. And their kids probably don't call home often enough.
The Sims 3 Screenshots
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.
How Fighting Robots Helped Wright Quit EA
Will Wright may be leaving Maxis and Electronic Arts, but that doesn't mean he's leaving gaming. In fact some of his biggest ideas are for future games, he told us today.
EA Hit with Two New Anti-DRM Class Action Suits
Playing With Ants, the Original God Game
Awesome IKEA Gameplay Footage
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…
SimsCarnival.com Enters Open Beta
EA's web-based game creation destination SimsCarnival.com has officially entered open beta, and not a moment too soon! The website allows players to use existing game templates to create new flash games or upload their own creations, and right now if you go there and click on Up and Coming you'll see a clear indicator …
25 Best Games for the Classroom
One of the benefits of teaching on a collegiate level is that "fun" can frequently go out the window (as one of my professors routinely told a class full of students regarding the silent films the class watched, "I don't care if you like the film, that's not the point."); still, most of us don't want to bore the pants off …
Sims Franchise To Explore, uh, Virtual Worlds?
In a somewhat bizarre interview with The Times Online, Nancy Smith (head of the Sims division at EA) said that " in light of the popularity of virtual worlds ... the Sims may soon become a multi-player game." The article fails to mention the failed experiment of The Sims Online, later rebranded to "EA-Land" and scheduled…
20-year-old Memories of a Life Not Lived
Gamers of my generation may remember Activision's Alter Ego, released in 1986. It was a text-and-graphics, choice-based somewhat-precusor to later games like The Sims or Second Life. The game fascinated me, even as a 13-year-old, with the idea of living another life - and helping to create such a rich narrative - or…