There's A Massive Tiny House Community In The Sims 4
Tiny houses are, perhaps, one of the greatest/worst legacies of late capitalism. Forced into increasingly minuscule…
That Time I Created All The Greek Gods In The Sims And Made Them Have Sex
Ingenuity is a child’s greatest asset and most dangerous weapon. When you’re small, you aren’t aware of limits yet,…
The Sims 4 Is Getting A New Career And Terrain Tools (Finally)
In an effort to keep their fans in the loop about upcoming features, The Sims’s development team has started a monthly…
EA Kills "Open Source" Version Of SimCity 2000
Earlier this year, a game called OpenSC2K was released on GitHub, claiming to be a free, open source version of Maxis’…
Sims Developer Responds To 'General Unrest' Among Series Fans
One of the public facing members of The Sims’s dev team took to the forums to address rumors of the end of The Sims 4's…
Sims 4 Toddlers Don't Flirt Anymore
There’s a new Sims 4 patch, and it’s a day that ends in Y. You know what that means: extremely good patch notes.
Modder Makes Over $4,000 A Month Adding A Lot Of Sex To The Sims 4
In the world of The Sims 4, life is a lighthearted cartoon. You can die of laughter and turn into a ghost. You can…
Two Years Later, The Sims 4 Sex Mods Have Gotten Intense
Normally, ‘woohooing’ in The Sims 4 is pretty tame...that is, unless you download some of the latest mods. (NSFW…
EA Removing Gender Boundaries From The Sims 4
While The Sims has always been a sandbox of possibility, up to and including misguided romantic affairs with Death,…
My Quest To Seduce The Grim Reaper In The Sims 4
The first time a Sim died on me, my surviving Sims circled the body and cried their eyes out. Personally, I didn’t feel…
Forget No Man’s Sky. I’m Getting Hyped To Play Some Spore
In the fall of 2006, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine published dueling Spore previews in the span of…
The Sims Players Confess Their Most Evil Deeds
The Sims might look like a pleasant game where you just pretend to play house, but don’t let that fool you. Things can…
A History Of Maxis: Thanks For SimCity
The Maxis that you knew, the studio that released SimCity and invented The Sims, is no more. The SimCity brand might…
EA Shuts Down SimCity Developer Maxis
EA has shut down Maxis Emeryville, the main Maxis studio and longrunning developer behind SimCity and Spore, among…
The Best SimCity Is Now Free
Forget the busted remake. Forget the cash-hungry mobile games. The best SimCity Maxis ever made is still available, and…
Swimming Pools Open Up Terrifying New Ways To Kill In The Sims 4
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the BREAKING EXPERIMENT, where all the all the Sims are harmed in the making of this…
Breaking The Sims 4 Is Just As Fun As Playing It
By now it's well-known that The Sims lets you do all sorts of unrealistic, goofy things, like letting players become…
Everything Goes Wrong When You Try To Kidnap Everyone In The Sims 4
It all started with a simple investigation: how many Sims can one fit in a grid in The Sims 4? Then, everything gets…
Someone Actually Managed To Kill The Reaper In The Sims 4
How does one kill death itself? By getting your hands dirty, of course.
What Happens When You Don't Play The Sims 4
In a word: hilarity. You probably noticed this while playing, but the AI in The Sims 4 isn't exactly the brightest.