12 Sims players will compete for $100,000 on a TBS game show

It sounds like an absolute dream for millions of gamers. Take on challenges in The Sims 4 and compete for $100,000. A dozen contestants will do just that in a reality show that’s set to debut on TBS next week. In The Sims Spark’d, competitors will ta...

After Math: Take a mental health break from this crisis with these games

It’s been a brutal week. We started it with a historic space flight promising to unite the American people under a banner of hope and optimism. Then the police rioted. All of them, I think. Now we’ve got protests running throughout the nation. Calls...

You can finally play Maxis’ long-lost ‘SimRefinery’ oil simulator

Once thought to be lost forever, Maxis’ SimRefinery has resurfaced. What’s more, you can play it right now thanks to the work of ArsTechnica and one of its readers. The story of how SimRefinery became playable again starts with journalist and game hi...

‘The Sims 4’ will stop supporting 32-bit PCs in June

We hope you weren't determined to run The Sims 4 on the same PC you had when it came out in 2014. The developers have warned that the life simulator will end support for 32-bit operating systems and non-Metal Macs in June 2019. Simply put, it's abo...

‘The Sims 4’ will get weird on consoles November 17th

After an eight year absence, The Sims is coming back to consoles in a very big way. Come November 17th you'll be able to control a virtual society from the couch in The Sims 4 with what sounds the best console installment of the 17 year-old social sa...

‘The Sims 4’ will get weird on consoles November 17th

After an eight year absence, The Sims is coming back to consoles in a very big way. Come November 17th you'll be able to control a virtual society from the couch in The Sims 4 with what sounds the best console installment of the 17 year-old social sa...

There’s a new boss in charge of ‘Mass Effect’ and ‘Dragon Age’

Electronic Arts is changing. Many of the massive publisher-developer's myriad studios will now be assembled under one figurative roof at EA Worldwide Studios. Describing the change, EA CEO and part-time Mirror's Edge villain Andrew Wilson says it "wi...

‘The Sims 4’ heads to the city with its latest expansion

As much as The Sims 4 has done to expand its cultural boundaries over time, it has always been set in the suburbs -- you know, that bastion of conformity and homogeneity. What about the city, where experiences tend to be more diverse? Enter City Livi...

Using The Sims 4 to Recreate the Show ‘Friends’

Friends having dinner on Sims

Sims 4, recently released by EA Maxis, isn’t that different from the previous installations in the series of life simulators. Better graphics, better social interactions. That’s it. You either love the game or you don’t.

Obviously, if you put the effort and time into it, you can create some incredible things. Like what? Like recreating the set of Friends, which includes the two apartments (Monica’s place and Joey/Chandler’s apartment), the coffee shop where they all hang out and also Phoebe’s home.

Is this important to the world? In a way, yes. Friends has been off the air for a very long time, but re-runs are everywhere, and people still haven’t grown tired of the show.

It’s also an excellent way to get people who aren’t that in-love with the video game by trying a different appeal. And it would be fun controlling the lives of the six Friends, at least on a computer screen.

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