On September 29, 2025, EA announced it would go private — which means it won’t be available for public trading on the stock market — in a $55 billion leveraged buyout (LBO), with Saudi Arabia’s Public ...

As the daily grind becomes “gamified,” players are nostalgic for older, more chaotic versions of the life simulation game By Kim Hew-Low While playing The Sims 4 — the latest iteration of the wildly ...

EA has opened up about the fate of its hugely popular The Sims franchise, offering a sneaky tease about what to expect from the upcoming multiplayer game, and why we probably shouldn't expect The Sims ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's nothing worse in The Sims 4 than encountering bugs in gameplay, especially when you've run into something unusual that's difficult to do a ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. EA is partying like it's 2004--and that's because the publisher is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its juggernaut franchise The Sims with ...

As the virtual dollhouse turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how The Sims was a sandbox for the American dream. In The Sims 4, you can have your Sims play The Sims.Credit... Supported by ...

Until now, if you wanted to play the classic computer games The Sims from 2000 and The Sims 2 from 2004, you needed the original CD-ROMs or DVDs. But that’s about to change. In celebration of the ...

Cheats for The Sims 1 are a fantastic way to get extra simoleons and fix up your house quickly. Now that Maxis Studios and Electronic Arts re-released the original game to Windows PC as part of The ...

The Sims franchise turns 25 this week, which is a huge milestone in and of itself, but did you know just how many Sims games there actually are? And I don't mean how many expansion packs or other bits ...

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of The Sims, and EA has celebrated with gifts no one was expecting: re-releases for The Sims 1 and 2, and an update to The Sims 3. Now that the 16-year-old game is ...

There have been plenty of exciting nostalgia hits in recent years, but few have been greeted with as much joy (among PC players, especially) as The Sims and The Sims 2 being re-released today as part ...