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Why Stardew Valley Fans Love This Queer Pop Banger
17.4.2024
If your social media is attuned to gay stuff, pop queens, or Coachella, you’ve probably heard Chappell Roan. The budding pop artist has been making waves on platforms like TikTok with songs like “Casual” and her latest single, “Good Luck, Babe!” Her Coachella performance has also been popping...
Star Wars Outlaws Is Getting Every Scoundrel’s Favorite Card Game
16.4.2024
The latest trailer for Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world RPG set in a galaxy far far away, gave us a deeper dive into the story of protagonist Kay Vess, as well as an August 30 release date. In addition to the trailer, the game has also been rated by the Entertainment Software Rating...
Barbie’s Margot Robbie Is Working On A Sims Movie
21.3.2024
The game-to-movie pipeline is seemingly in full swing, particularly after the meteoric success of Nintendo’s 2023 animated comedy The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Now Margot Robbie, the star of Barbie (the only movie to beat Mario at the global box office last year), is set to produce a film adaption...
What You Need To Know About Stardew Valley’s Newest Merchant
20.3.2024
Stardew Valley, the eight-year-old cozy farming sim, is new again thanks to its latest patch. Update 1.6 launched on March 19 and brought a long laundry list of bug fixes, changes, and new content to the game. It’s enough to get old and new players to dive in, years after its release. One of...
Sims 4 Adds Vitiligo Skin Options In Free Update
15.2.2024
A new and free update for The Sims 4, EA’s uber-popular life sim, has added cosmetic options to the game that let you give your Sims vitiligo skin patches and patterns. To help celebrate this awesome addition, EA has brought in the world-famous model Winnie Harlow. Read more
10 Minutes From Infinite Wealth’s Animal Crossing-Inspired Mode
25.1.2024
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The Sims 4 Glitch Is Making Horses Horrifying
25.7.2023
If it isn’t riddled with a bunch of off-putting glitches, did publisher EA even release a new The Sims 4 expansion pack? The latest pack, Horse Ranch, which came out on July 20, appears to be crawling with a number of bizarre bugs players have been drawing attention to since the add-on was...
Oh Snap, The Sims 5 Looks Like It's Going To Be Free-To-Play
28.6.2023
An Electronic Arts job listing for a role related to The Sims 5, the upcoming entry in its popular life-sim series, appears to confirm that it will launch as a free-to-play game.Read more
New Hello Kitty Game Is Basically Animal Crossing, A Deadly Combo
27.6.2023
Calling all Animal Crossing and Disney Dreamlight Valley fans, there’s a new cozy build-up-and-decorate-an-island game for you to get excited about and you don’t have to wait long to play it. And if you love Hello Kitty, well, even better. Read more
The Sims 5 Prototypes Give Us A Taste Of What’s Next For The Life Sim
27.6.2023
At Tuesday’s Behind the Sims stream, fans got another look at the hotly-anticipated sequel to popular life simulator The Sims 4, Project Rene, known colloquially as The Sims 5.Read more
The Latest Sims 4 Update Tries To Reckon With Its History Of Whitewashing
31.5.2022
A popular Sims 4 NPC family is at the center of a minor fan debate after getting an unexpected makeover, raising questions about The Sims’ complicated history of Eurocentric character design.Read more
Latest Sims 4 Update Adds Custom Pronouns For All
26.5.2022
A new Sims 4 update released yesterday added new pronoun options to the latest entry in EA’s long-running life simulator. With this update, players will be able to set their Sims’ pronouns, including completely custom ones, without the use of mods across all platforms that The Sims 4 is available...
The Sims 4 Announces Two New Kits, And I’m Here For It
19.5.2022
The Sims 4 seems intent on winning me back with its onslaught of kits, and its latest dual release just might do it.Read more
Gaming’s Best Character Creators, From Demon’s Souls To Final Fantasy
19.5.2022
Sometimes I think I like sliding into a character creator sandbox more than the game it’s attached to. Character creators let me play a benevolent god that only creates hot people—like Abercrombie in the 2010s, except I’m a socialist. I feel powerful and clever until I run smack into a wall:...
Pregnant Sim Trapped In The Walls For Months, Need I Say More?
29.4.2022
Hope Wallston—an ex-realtor, single mother, and blogger within The Sims 4— has been living inside of fellow Sims Rodney and Kristyn’s walls for nearly two months. Her captor, the TikTok account @simslicious, has been documenting all the ups and downs of her imprisonment, which includes a visit from...
The Latest Sims 4 Update Is Trolling Players With An Unexpected Demon
27.4.2022
Picture your worst nightmare. Really allow yourself to round out each gruesome detail. Feel your heart race, then step back to reflect on what you’ve created. I’m guessing it’s not a Sim with a cell phone, but somehow, developer Maxis has managed to turn that innocuous image into a menace to Sims...
The Best Dreamcast Games
11.4.2022
Here’s a terrifying fact: Sega has been out of the console business longer than they were in it. And while it was the Dreamcast that finally did the struggling giant in, for a platform that was only around for a couple of years it certainly left one hell of a legacy behind.Read more
The Sims 4’s Wedding Expansion Is Not The DLC That Fans Boycotted For
25.2.2022
Well, this is a little bit embarrassing. After all the uproar The Sims 4 community raised over Electronic Arts not releasing the My Wedding Stories game pack in Russia, it turns out the expansion is too broken for players to enjoy. Some streamers are even advising fans to avoid buying the game pack...
Sims 4’s Queer-Friendly Wedding Expansion To Be Released In Russia After Community 'Outpouring'
17.2.2022
The Sims 4 community has been in an uproar ever since EA announced that the game’s imminent, queer-friendly wedding expansion would not be released in Russia due to the nation’s homophobic federal laws. Today, the publisher reversed its decision. My Wedding Stories will be released in Russia,...
Sims 4 Wedding Expansion Won't Release In Russia Over Homophobic 'Federal Laws'
10.2.2022
The Russian government is notoriously homophobic, to the point where a law was passed in 2013 that everyone outside of Russia simply refers to as the ‘Russian gay propaganda law’. Which goes a long way to explaining why EA won’t be releasing the latest Sims expansion in the region.Read more