the sims

Disambiguation:

The Sims Online, a defunct MMORPG
The Sims, an EA/Maxis single-player game
The Sims 2, an EA/Maxis single-player game
The Sims 3, an EA/Maxis single-player game
The Sims 4, an EA/Maxis single-player game

Massively Overthinking: Let’s play with the Gamer Motivation Model

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Over the winter holidays, we wrote about game analytics consulting firm Quantic Foundry, which has published what it calls its "Gamer Motivation Model" --...

H1Z1 gets comfortable with food

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What does H1Z1 and The Sims have in common? Other than being gruesome torture boxes for innocent video game characters, both games are focused...

The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online

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The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...

The Daily Grind: Would you pay for MMO mods?

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The entire internet (only a slight exaggeration there) exploded this week over Valve's decision to work with selected game studios to allow modders to charge for...

Perfect Ten: Combat-free MMOs

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If there's one thing that always, always goes with MMOs, it's combat. I mean, we can't be a hero without killing something, right? We...

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