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Sims 4’s Daring Lifestyle Bundle Is Free On Epic

Monday, someone huffed enough drugs and said Fortnite can be an Olympic Esport now. No, it isn’t early April, it is in fact May. Tuesday, games about being frustrated with transport, Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, got updates. Wednesday, the open beta for Street Fighter 6 was announced. Thursday, Fall Guys became similar to Against…

Modding and Custom Content: Extending a Game’s Life Cycle

I’ve been thinking about a lot of games that have come and gone over the years. In the early days of gaming, a game was released, you played it and potentially your friends played it. After that, either you talked about it…

The Sims 4: My Wedding Stories Won’t Release In Russia

Let’s get the obnoxious stereotypical joke out the way first: In Russia, man doesn’t love you, or you’ll be taken to a place where you’ll be locked inside with lots of men. I’ll never understand anti-LGBTQ+ laws that lead to someone getting…

The Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion Pack Revealed

Simmers have been asking for farming, and oddly enough, livestock since the Sims 2 days. While they did give them horses in Sims 3 and chickens via the Sims 3 store, the request really wasn’t addressed by EA or Maxis. Until now,…

The Winners of 2020’s Steam Awards Are Here

I’d really rather not cast my mind back to the hellish year that was 2020, but I think I have a sufficient reason to do so for a little while in this context. You see, back in 2015, Valve introduced what they’re…

The Sims 4 Getting 100+ New Skin Tones in December 2020

On September 23rd, The Sims 4 team came forward with an announcement pertaining to the next steps of their previous commitment to improving skin tones and hairstyles for Black sims in-game. This commitment came in the wake of years of critiques and…

The Sims 4: Journey To Batuu’s Reveal Brings Mixed Feelings

The Sims 4 releases content fairly regularly, which is pretty good for a game that, having released originally in 2014, is now in its sixth year of running. Full disclaimer, constant reader: I have every single The Sims 4 pack, except for…

Opening Night Live 2020 – Roundup

Quick children, the hype machine is here! You never know what tripe it might sling out at you for no good reason other than advertising purposes. Duck and cover, as this year it was worse than the last. For reference, last year…

The Sims 4 Listens to Players, Finally, Sort Of

Two months following a Change.org petition requesting a color wheel for skin tones in The Sims 4 reached 87,604 signatures, Executive Producer Lyndsay Pearson posted a roughly two-minute-long video to her Twitter account. The recorded statement — and transcript subsequently posted to…

EA Play Live June 2020 – Roundup

Faux E3 is in full swing, and it hasn’t felt like it is that time of year yet. Why? We didn’t have EA on Day minus one. Everyone knows EA kicks off the event two days early, Microsoft a day before everyone…