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• The Sims 4: Maxis drops gender restrictions from Create A Sim

  Have all the moustaches and flowing hairstyles your heart and shining personal style demand.

• The Sims 4: Get Together expansion delayed into December

  The Sims 4: Get Together won’t be here in time for Thanksgiving parties.

• The Sims 4 to expand with new neighbourhood, Newcrest

  The Sims 4 isn’t big enough for the hopes and dreams of many of its players, but a free update will address that very issue.

• SimCity developer: "EA is actually a great place to work these days"

  The Sims 4 developer Maxis may have been shuttered, but at least one former employee doesn’t have beef with EA and its decision.

• The Sims, SimCity developer closed down

  The Sims 4 developer Maxis has been shuttered, EA has confirmed.

• The Sims 4 Get to Work puts your detective to the task, too

  The Sims 4’s new DLC pack, Get to Work, will shows us what our sims actually do all day. Apparently this includes gumshoe-ing.

• The Sims 4 Get To Work expansion has you actually going to work

  The Sims 4 is going to make you go to work and do your actual job. Ugh.

• The Sims 4 free for 48 hours with Origin Game Time

  The Sims 4 is the latest game to be offered free through Origin’s Game Time promotion.

• The Sims 4 goes outdoors in first DLC, according to data-miners

  The Sims 4’s first major DLC pack will be called “Outdoor Retreat”, apparently.

• Huge new The Sims 4 update adds loads of free content

  The Sims 4 continues its habit of quietly pushing out new content for free in patches with the latest whopping update.

• Check out Friends and Seinfeld recreated in The Sims 4

  The Sims 4 offers plenty of scope to create unique characters, but if you’re feeling a bit low on inspiration, why not grab these pre-made TV series sets?

• Turns out you can have bigger maps in SimCity after all

  SimCity sets strict boundaries on the size of your cities, something longterm series fans found very disappointing. Maxis said it was a technical limitation. Modders say it’s not.

• The Sims 4 sure has a lot of feelings

  The Sims 4 puts you in charge of your virtual people’s emotions for the first time. All the feelings!

• This 20 minute demo for The Sims 4 reveals more than we bargained for

  The Sims 4 is going to have some sort of “premium membership” scheme granting early access to extra content, apparently.

• Actually, The Sims was not intended to include same-sex relationships

  The Sims has been held up as a shining example of long-term support of equal representation of same-sex relationships, but according to one of the original programmers, the inclusion was something of an accident.

• The Sims 4 rated 18+ in Russia for the "protection of children"

  The Sims 4 has received an adults only rating in Russia, presumably for its optional depiction of same-sex relationships.

• The Sims 4 on show at E3 2014

  The Sims 4 will definitely be on show at E3 2014, executive producer Rachel Franklin confirmed on Twitter.

• SimCity finally gets offline mode, walkthrough trailer posted

  UPDATE: SimCity is back online and following an update on Origin, will include an offline mode. Here’s a walkthrough trailer: ORIGINAL STORY: SimCity Update 10, which contains offline play, launched today. At present the game is experiencing a server down time, so the game will be unavailable for a few hours. The down time started […]

• SimCity offline update in "final testing"

  SimCity’s long awaited offline play update is almost upon us, according to the game’s Twitter account, which noted that update ten is “in final testing” and “almost there”. Update ten includes many fixes and features but offline play is the big one many fans are waiting for. Thanks, games.on.net.