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You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4

By Rick Lane Published

News Now that's some prime YouTube fodder.

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Sims 5 - Everything we know
Project Rene—Everything we know about the next major Sims game

By Lauren Morton Last updated

Next Generation Project Rene is still years away, but Electronic Arts has committed to showing off features as it develops.

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A group of aliens in Spore.
Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'

By Justin Wagner Published

News The evolution sim that was never meant to be.

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The Sims 3 review: 'a joyful simulation, and celebration, of life and all its dramas'

By Graham Smith Published

Life affirming Love, work and kleptomania return in The Sims 3, Electronic Arts' enormous life-controlling sequel to the bestselling PC game of all time.

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The Sims 4 - A sim smiles while looking at her phone
The Sims 4 cheats: Every cheat code and life hack you need

By Lauren Morton Last updated

Life hacks All of the Sims 4 cheats for each expansion, all in one convenient place.

Life hacks
The Sims 4 - A woman makes an "ah hah!" face while holding a finger in the air.
'Sims don't plan anything' says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: 'it's always shot down, rightfully so'

By Lauren Morton Published

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

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'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'

By Lauren Morton Published

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

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It's been 7 years since the last Fallout game, so one gamer took matters into their own hands and made an entire Vault in the Sims

By Issy van der Velde Published

News Building a better future underground.

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The Sims 4
The Sims' biggest sex mod creator says that around 300,000 people use it—that's more than some of Steam's top games: 'It doesn't make sense to me'

By Mollie Taylor Published

news A lotta people like to see their Sims naked, it seems.

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Spore screenshot
In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it

By Justin Wagner Published

News Fess up: Which one of you was it?

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