The Sims 4 High School Years was a franchise-first expansion pack, responding to a wish that had often been expressed by Simmers over the years: to accompany their teen Sims to an active school day, rather than simply wave them off from the curb at 8am to experience all that deliciously soapy coming-of-age drama off-screen.
]]>The Sims 4 Growing Together expansion pack fleshes out gameplay for a number of often-neglected life stages in TS4 – in other words, basically everyone other than Young Adults, who tend to get the most attention by default from both devs and players. And hey, many of us have been guilty of perpetuating that; but with Growing Together, there's a few more reasons to step outside of that comfort zone and play a legacy family, rather than an endless stream of SINK and DINK households you abandon after a single generation.
]]>The Sims 4 Horse Ranch isn't trying to hide its core gameplay addition behind any fancy puns – yup, this is the TS4 expansion pack where you can buy a horse, finally! You can also buy sheep and mini goats, which are slightly simpler creatures from the game's point of view, but also much cuter, although I suppose "The Sims 4 Horse and Mini Goat and Sheep Ranch" didn't have quite the same ring to it.
]]>The Sims 4 For Rent might have placed its focus in a bit of a strange place – truly, even in TS4's diverse player-base, not many people were actively campaigning to be allowed to become a landlord in the game – but it does reintroduce one feature that Simmers had been crying out to see again for literal years: apartment buildings (and other multi-unit dwellings) that could be fully edited using TS4's excellent architecture tools.
]]>The Sims 4 Lovestruck finally brings your romantically-inclined Sims into the 21st century, with the introduction of new features like dating apps and open relationships to better reflect the modern reality of dating.
]]>The Sims 4 Life & Death expansion pack is a franchise-first, in that it introduces formal funeral events and varied emotional reactions to the death of loved ones into the world of The Sims.
]]>The Sims 4 has been experimenting with limited-time events for a few years already, but 2024 saw EA seemingly settle on a formula they'd like to continue going forward. In total there were three such events in The Sims 4 over the course of the year – Happy At Home in the summer, Reaper's Rewards for Halloween, and Cozy Celebrations for Christmas – with the latter two both extending beyond log-in rewards and instead requiring you to complete some quests in order to gather up those sweet exclusive goodies.
]]>In a vanishingly rare moment of consensus among a modern gaming community, I think most of us can agree that The Sims 4 is ending 2024 on a high note.
]]>The Sims 4 Cozy Celebrations is the latest limited-time event to be introduced into The Sims 4, making it the third and final such event the game has seen in 2024. This time – as you may have guessed from the title, or just the timing – the theme is end-of-year celebrations, and while there's a distinctively Christmassy flavour to proceedings, the quests that form this event are frequently centred around learning and understanding about various cultures' festive traditions.
]]>There are no ducks in my pool.
]]>The Sims 4 Life & Death expansion pack is due to launch on Halloween, which is all well and good for an add-on that gives playable ghosts their long-awaited overhaul. But while the spooky trappings aren't inappropriate for a DLC that's also reintroduced the oft-requested ability to bone the Grim Reaper, I can't help but feel that it undersells the pack's most revolutionary feature: for the first time in the franchise, you'll be able to say goodbye to your dearly departed Sims with a proper funeral.
]]>Yo. Do you know someone that's say, a bit too into true crime stuff, or just likes making replicas of their entire social group/family that eventually end up meeting sticky ends? Well, very carefully wake them up, EA's just revealed The Sims 4's next expansion, Life and Death, which'll let you take on being a Grim Reaper as a job.
]]>The Sims 4 Reaper's Rewards Event is a limited-time in-game event helping to kick off the game's latest content season, "To Be Continued…" (September-December 2024). Launching on September 24th and due to run for eight weeks, this event ties in rather neatly to the Halloween release date for the next expansion pack, The Sims 4 Life & Death.
]]>Sul Sul! It's official, Sims fans: a movie based on the beloved life-sim is in the works, and Barbie's Margot Robbi and Loki's Kate Herron are at the helm.
]]>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 just four years; The Sims 2 yielded to The Sims 3 after five; and the gap between The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 was another five years.
]]>At last, my love has come along, if you change "my love" to "Turn Ons and Turn Offs in The Sims 4" and "come along" to "made their long-awaited return to the franchise". (You'd also need to change "has" to "have" for it to work grammatically…)
]]>The addition of a long-awaited polyamory option is one of the big selling points of The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion pack and its accompanying base game update. Gone are the days of sneaking around behind your Sim partners' backs when all you want to do is practise ethical non-monogamy with EA's blessing — but rest assured, if it's cheating drama you're after, that hasn't gone anywhere either.
]]>The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion pack may have leaked so early and so comprehensively that you could've sworn that it'd already been announced, but actually, we've only just officially learned that this romantic add-on — the centrepiece of TS4's Season of Love summer '24 content plan — is soon to be a real thing.
]]>The Sims 3 celebrates the 15th anniversary of its initial release today, and, as someone who excitedly took a fresh copy of the base game with them when they moved into their university halls of residence, allow me to take a break from booking myself in for a hip replacement to look back on one of the most lauded - yet divisive - entries into The Sims franchise.
]]>Prospective Sims competitor Life by You has caught its third delay, and this one's come as a bit of a surprise, since only three weeks ago the team at Paradox Tectonic seemed extremely confident that they were going to hit their June 4 early access launch. Furthermore, this time the team has elected not to announce a revised release date, which marks a departure from the first couple of delays, both of which came with a new target already in sight.
]]>Back in January of this year, The Sims community was shaken to learn that Grant Rodiek — who had worked at Electronic Arts since 2005 and been a major figure in the last several generations of the franchise, including most recently being named game director on Project Rene (a.k.a. The Sims 5) — was departing the company after nearly two decades. In what can only be described as quite the plot twist, yesterday we learned what he's doing next: teaming up with former XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns devs on a new life sim that's quite clearly hoping to rival The Sims series.
]]>The Sims 4 Crystal Creations Stuff Pack looks at first glance like a fairly straightforward jewellery crafting add-on to EA's seemingly endlessly expandable life simulator. However, keen-eyed players have likely already spotted the connection between crystals and the more supernatural themes present in The Sims series, which were not-very-subtly hinted at in the pack's marketing.
]]>EA and Maxis have announced the newest Stuff Pack for The Sims 4, which will find you creating jewelry and charging crystals in the moonlight to add varied properties.
]]>After a few days of teasing via social media, we now know that The Sims 4 Crystal Creations Stuff Pack is the next add-on coming to EA's behemoth life simulator, and it turns out it'll be out very soon — at the end of this month. The pack looks to expand on the metal and crystal collecting systems that have been present since the base game, finally allowing your Sims to show off some bling after digging through the shiny rocks that spawn in the world.
]]>The Sims franchise celebrates its 24th anniversary this weekend, which is a much-needed reminder for me that as your resident Sims fanatic, I've got exactly a year to plan some fun coverage for its 25th (and that I should probably use some of that time to come to terms with the formal departure of the last vestiges of my youth, as someone who's been playing since practically the very start).
]]>Maxis has announced what The Sims 4 players can expect between now and April.
]]>Electronic Arts has released some interesting figures about some of its games.
]]>The Sims 4 For Rent expansion pack is launching later today, and even though Sims EPs can admittedly be a mixed bag, there's a lot to be excited about with this one. For Rent is ticking off a lot of items from the long collective wish list of The Sims fandom, bringing with it a mix of highly-anticipated returning features, and franchise firsts that some of us have been hoping to see for as much as two real-world decades.
]]>The Sims has a new official merch store and, provided you’ve got a decent amount of disposable income to spend on things with green diamonds on them, it might be worth checking out.
]]>Turns out that last week's leaks were bang on the money: the next expansion pack for The Sims 4 will indeed be titled For Rent, and will allow you to play as a landlord. Which is… certainly interesting.
]]>The Sims 4 is the game that just keeps on giving, especially if you are one of many Simmers who looks forward to the life-simulation games regular updates and expansions. These show no signs of slowing down, even with Project Rene (The Sims 5) in development.
]]>EA's semi-regular Sims livestream series "Behind the Sims" aired its third episode last night, capping off the Summer 2023 content season and announcing what we can expect from the game for the remainder of the year — and it turns out they weren't joking when they said we were in for a surprise for The Sims 4's 9th anniversary. The newly-announced Home Chef Hustle DLC will be the first "stuff pack" for the game since January 2021, and many players had long since assumed that the pack type had been quietly retired in favour of the controversial micro-DLC "kits".
]]>The Sims 4 turned nine years old this weekend, and while that might not seem like such a big milestone, it is in fact fairly noteworthy if you know your franchise history. The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 both had a roughly four-and-a-half year lifespan, so their most recent successor has officially worn the current-gen crown for twice as long as either of them ever got to; or, looked at another way, is now as old as both of its immediate predecessors combined.
]]>The Horse Ranch Expansion Pack for The Sims 4 releases in a couple of weeks on July 20, and today, Maxis has released a trailer providing a look at the batch of paid DLC.
]]>It's looking like The Sims 5, otherwise known as Project Rene, will be free-to-play at launch, based on a recent job listing.
]]>Horses will finally be returning to the Sims series, with a new Horse Ranch Expansion Pack being announced for The Sims 4, arriving on July 20.
]]>Two new kits are coming to The Sims 4, and at least one of them will take Gen X'ers down memory lane to the good ole days of looking like you threw on something out of the hamper because that was the style.
]]>Want a say in the next Kit expansion for The Sims 4? Well, now you can have one.
]]>The next weekly freebie coming to Epic Games Store is a bundle for The Sims 4.
]]>In an announcement from EA (via BusinessWire), The Sims 4 has set a franchise record, having reportedly reached over 70 million players. That’s quite the feat, and also means that The Sims 4 has more players than there are people in the United Kingdom.
]]>The Sims 4 is releasing its next base game update on March 14, and there’s plenty to be excited about if you’re a Simmer. This free update will introduce an all-new life stage at long last, Infants, but Maxis has revealed that this isn’t all that’ll be included.
]]>During the most recent Behind The Sims showcase, Maxis shared some brand-new details on The Sims series, including a few words on Project Rene, some exciting new additions to The Sims 4, and some news for players of The Sims Mobile and The Sims Freeplay.
]]>Today, EA and Maxis have unveiled two new kits for The Sims 4: The Sims 4 Simtimates Collection Kit, and The Sims 4 Bathroom Clutter Kit. Both kits will be available on all platforms as of January 19, and will spice up your Sims more intimate moments; whether that’s Woohooing or simply showering.
]]>As first noted by Sims Community, it wouldn’t be a new Sims season without a leak, and they’re completely correct. Initially spotted by Reddit user u/nekokitty200, before later being picked up by Sims Community, leaks of an underwear-focused kit for The Sims 4 have emerged.
]]>The Sims 4 is no stranger to regular updates, with a bustling community of creatives building architecturally-interesting homes and vibrant, maniacal Simmers. It’s a community that has thrived since conception, and one that Maxis rarely neglects.
]]>As far as leaks go, they’re often pretty frustrating for the majority involved. Not only is the developer’s hard work being shown off prematurely, but plenty of fans wish to avoid having surprises ruined for themselves. That said, I’m actually welcoming the leaked screenshots of Project Rene — set to be The Sims 5 — with open arms.
]]>EA recently held its first Nintendo Direct-like event Behind The Sims Summit, and has issued an apology after only featuring one "black simmer."
]]>I don't believe in any god. I don't think that's a particularly unusual point of view in 2022, at least in some parts of the world, but if I did there are certainly some moments that stick with me as things I'd have potentially given a deity credit for.
]]>It’s been almost a decade of The Sims 4, and most fans are yet to tire of the simulation game. During the Behind the Sims Summit on October 18, the title went free to play across all platforms. Now, The Sims 4 has had its fair share of free weekends or ‘free on Origin’ offers, but this appears to be it for the game.
]]>It’s been eight years of The Sims 4, and it’s endless amount of packs and expansions. Given this amount of time, fans of the series were beginning to ask what was next for their favourite game.
]]>The Sims 4 will go free-to-play next month, EA and Maxis have announced.
]]>Gaming is a pricey hobby, but not every game comes with an up-front cost — and indeed, the best free-to-play games never require you to spend a single penny of your own cash in order to enjoy them to the fullest.
]]>If you have spent any amount of time with The Sims 4, or even appreciating one of the communities many content creators, you'll know that the simulation title can be chaotic. Half the charm of The Sims 4 is undoubtedly wedding the weirdest of couples and ultimately finding unique ways to kill them off, but the latest bugs to plague players have taken this to an unprecedented level of strange.
]]>On Thursday, July 21, EA published a post regarding some policy changes concerning mods and custom content in The Sims 4.
]]>Following yesterday's free update to The Sims 4, which will now allow players to choose the sexual orientation of their sims, a rather troublesome bug has emerged. The bug appears to be aging players' characters at an alarming rate.
]]>Maxis has anounced the next base game update to The Sims 4 will allow you to pick your sexual orientation.
]]>More content for The Sims 4 is always welcomed by fans, and the latest expansion pack, High School Years, is no exception. High School Years will be taking us and our sims back to school as of July 28, and teenage sims will finally be in receipt of a real education!
]]>The Sims 4 is privy to the wildest of imaginations. While some of us simply want to watch our sim have a family or become a multimillionaire, The Sims 4's wide range of packs also make the most creative of scenarios come to fruition. This includes transforming into or romancing werewolves.
]]>After plenty of teasing, Maxis has finally announced the Werewolves Game Pack for The Sims 4.
]]>The latest update for The Sims 4 is one that many of us have been waiting for, albeit for far too long. As of May 25, players of EA and Maxis' simulation game will be able to customise the pronouns of their Sims.
]]>Maxis has properly revealed the next two kits coming to The Sims 4, with a cosy looking camping kit, and one that will let you decorate with a more Parisian aesthetic.
]]>New content is coming to The Sims 4, and the game's developer has been teasing players a bit regarding what's to come.
]]>The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories Game Pack will be made available in Russia after all despite the country's homophobic stance against the LGBT community.
]]>The Sims 4 players are getting a wedding-themed Game Pack, if a recent leak is any indication.
]]>A new expansion pack is coming to The Sims 4 and it's all about cottage living.
]]>In 2024, The Sims 4 celebrated the 10th anniversary of its release, and we learned that EA plans to continue developing the game as a legacy title well into the future. To date, the massively-expanded life sim has received 17 expansion packs, 12 game packs, 20 stuff packs, 35 kits, and 173 free updates, with more additions arriving all the time. It's a significantly different game to the one that launched in 2014, but it's still recognisable as a part of The Sims franchise that we've known and loved since its debut in 2000.
]]>Even if you're well-versed in The Sims 4's various job options, the Interior Decorator path added in the Dream Home Decorator game pack will likely have some features you're unfamiliar with.
]]>The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator game pack introduces the Interior Decorator career. At last, Sims are able to take a more active role in shaping their homes
]]>The Sims 4 has received a significant base game update supporting the upcoming release of the Dream Home Decorator game pack on June 1st. Even if you don't buy the new pack, installing the update will give you access to a new gameplay feature: Likes and Dislikes.
]]>The Sims 4 players can soon decorate the homes of other Sims with the Dream Home Decorator Game Pack.
]]>When I saw that The Sims 4 was introducing a new micro-content pack type called Kits, my initial reaction was a deep, weary sigh.
]]>You can tell we've all been alone in lockdown for too long when the newest NPCs in The Sims 4 are an amorous spirit guide and a skeleton with an inexplicable cleavage.
]]>The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff Pack is a little different from what we've seen in the game of late — offering your Sims the opportunity to become spirit mediums and ghost busters
]]>New content is on the way for The Sims 4 players, and it alows you to build your own haunted house.
]]>Maxis has updated The Sims 4 with plenty of new skin tones.
]]>This new video for The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu shows how you can create your very own Star Wars story.
]]>The Sims 4 is taking you to a galaxy far, far away.
]]>The building tools in The Sims 4 are one of the best things about the 5 year old game. And what better way to show it off than to re-create famous gaming locations in The Sims 4?
]]>We sat down (virtually) with Dave Miotke, AKA Sim Guru Ninja to talk about the future of Spark'd, the new game pack leak, the Sims 5, and much much more in this Sims 4 interview.
]]>The Sims 4 has a really good set of tools to help you build tiny homes, cafés, museums, trailers, nightclubs, mansions, and loads of other types of buildings.
]]>Electronic Arts has announced a reality competition series centered on The Sims.
]]>Another batch of EA titles has been released on Steam.
]]>The Sims 4 is due for a big update ahead of the upcoming Eco Lifestyle expansion.
]]>A new overview trailer for The Sims 4 shows off features coming with the Eco Lifestyle expansion pack.
]]>There’s a new Sims 4 expansion pack on the horizon, just as we were told there would be in the recent six month roadmap.
]]>Spring is almost here! The weather is warming up, the sun is shining, and we're all stuck indoors. Bummer. Well, at least we can pretend to have a normal life in The Sims 4, which is on sale for only $5!
]]>If nothing else, The Sims 4 is a game about obsessing over tiny details as you build perfect homes or create a perfect family.
]]>From now until 6th February, a whole host of EA games on PC have been reduced by up to 75 per cent at many digital retailers.
]]>The next generation of The Sims games may incorporate online social features originally seen in EA's doomed MMO The Sims Online, according to EA head Andrew Wilson.
]]>Sony has announced three free games available to all PlayStation Plus subscribers in February.
]]>Soon, you will be able to build your own Tiny House in The Sims 4.
]]>A great way to put your stamp on a game like The Sims 4 is to use mods. They allow you to do things not initially intended by the developers of the base game, like adding new hair content, or turning into a vampire. They can be a lot of fun to use, but with there being so many and all it's easy to get overwhelmed. To help you out, we've put together this The Sims 4 Mods Guide. It'll list the very best Mods, and give you links to where they can be downloaded.
]]>From The Mandalorian to The Sims.
]]>The next expansion for The Sims 4 has leaked on the Microsoft Store, and it looks like you'll be able to have your Sims experience the crushing lows and eventual highs of higher education.
]]>The Sims 4 players can now dabble in magic.
]]>Maxis is celebrating the fifth anniversary of The Sims 4 with a new update which introduces clothing and architecture inspired by Muslim culture.
]]>Five years after launch, The Sims 4 is getting a huge update - so big that they're changing the box art.
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]]>EA Play 2019 focused on less talk and more games this year, and you can find all of the announcements out of the three hour stream right here.
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