Smithsonian Magazine

‘The Sims’ Turned Mere Mortals Into Gods. Twenty-Five Years Later, the Addictive Computer Game Is Still Going Strong

A view of "The Sims 4" during the EA press conference for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on June 9, 2014, in Los Angeles, California Dan R. Krauss / Getty Images When “The Sims” first hit ...
Game Rant on MSN

How to save when The Sims 4 freezes

Players can force The Sims 4 to save so they can avoid losing their progress when the game freezes - here's how it's done.
Game Rant

The Sims 4 Confirms When Adventure Awaits Will Be Revealed

Priye's fondness of gaming started early when he first beat Double Dragon II and couldn't stop himself from doing it all over again every chance he got. Since then, playing a bunch of Contra, GTA, ...
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What is the best Sims game?

The Sims franchise has gone through significant changes in its 25 year run. But which game stands out as the best Sims game ...
Game Rant

The Sims 4 Player Builds Sims 1 Newbie House in the Game

Priye's fondness of gaming started early when he first beat Double Dragon II and couldn't stop himself from doing it all over again every chance he got. Since then, playing a bunch of Contra, GTA, ...
GamesRadar+

New Sims 4 update prepares the game for fairies but breaks things for another occult, leaving all my vampires starving as every Sim is wrongly marked as "pregnant"

Third Person Shooters Take a bow, Arc Raiders players: your degeneracy surprised even Embark, which didn't expect all the wallhacking – "We have to continuously find ways to waterproof the experience" ...
PC Gamer

The Sims 4 gets a much-needed update to the increasingly buggy base game, as EA assures players that 'your concerns are heard' over issues like deformed pets and missing ghost ...

The Sims 4 has been going through a bit of a mid-life crisis lately. A wayward patch issued in July triggered a rampant pregnancy epidemic, while the most recent Enchanted by Nature DLC received a ...
vg247

Today, The Sims 4 becomes the first game in the franchise to turn 10 – and it marks a massive departure for the series and EA

You've probably noticed it by now if you're a fan of the life sim genre, but The Sims 4 has been doing the rounds for a long time. The original The Sims stepped aside to make way for The Sims 2 after ...
DualShockers

The Sims 4: Every Game Pack, Ranked

Russell Fourie-Kidson wouldn't call himself a gamer in the traditional sense—not at first. While other serious gamers fired headshots in CoD, He dove headfirst into The Sims. For him, gaming has ...
PC Gamer

The Sims 4 is now a decade old, the longest-running game in the series, and its age is seriously showing

The Sims 4 is officially 10 years old as of this week. That's a huge milestone—it's the only game in the series to hit double digits and still receive content updates, lasting twice as long as both ...
Polygon

The Sims 4 creative director on why The Sims is special: ‘We’re not a game that judges you for who you are, how you play’

Before Anna Huerta worked at Maxis, owned by Electronic Arts, on The Sims 4, she still played the game professionally. The success of The Sims as a franchise made it one of those games that other ...
GamesRadar+

The Sims creator's first game in over 10 years is an AI life sim that uses your real memories: "The more I can make a game about you, the more you'll like it"

Watch out, The Sims 4 - series mastermind Will Wright is back with a brand-new game over a decade after his last, and while it's also a life sim, it seems nothing like its predecessors. 16 years have ...