If, like me, you've been playing The Sims since more or less the very beginning, odds are good you were quite a small child when the first game came out, right? It was 25 years ago today, so if you ...

The Sims 4's original AI programmer always wanted to give sims the ability to plan their actions but it never stuck.

The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

One fan shows off their incredible custom giant castle build in The Sims 4, which serves as a perfect example of why the game ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's been 25 years since Maxis first introduced us to The Sims and began wasting so, so much of our time. EA, not too surprisingly, has taken ...

Andra Ivănescu is the recepient of a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for her project Gaming Censorship: Videogame Content Regulation in the UK. Katy Perry is in a recording booth. She ...

Connor is a writer on Game Rant. Hailing from the east coast of Scotland, with experience in the development and retail spaces of the industry, he uses his passion for games and Scottish charm to ...

Editor's Note: Alongside the release of The Sims 4’s Lovestruck Expansion Pack, we are taking a fresh look at the base game in 2024, replacing our original review from 2014. You can read more about ...

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 ...