A relic from the first big boom of simulator games has resurfaced as Maxis' SimRefinery has been found and is totally playable. Before it was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1997, the company was ...

A game being cancelled is sad, but developers losing their jobs is more important. EA seems to have cancelled a new Sims game at the same time that they laid off staff at Maxis. The rumor first came ...

Update, June 9, 2020: In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the original upload for this recovered copy of SimRefinery‘s prototype was taken down from archive.org. As site administrator Jason Scott ...

The game, developed for Chevron in 1993, has been uploaded to the Internet Archive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Interest in ...

The SimRefinery that's available to play today is a prototype, so many parts aren't complete. It's also very much designed for those with a chemical engineering background; many of the gameplay ...

The Sims 4 is about to launch a couple of major initiatives that may not exactly be what players have been looking for.

Catharina Lavers Mallet is the new general manager of The Sims developer Maxis. Mallet is a veteran of the games industry having worked for the studio before as the executive produer on The Sims ...

Good news, bad news: It's been eight years since The Sims 4 hit consoles and PCs – the most prolonged hiatus between games in the franchise's history. The good news is Maxis just revealed Project Rene ...

EA and Maxis are working with Sims 4 custom content creators to make official kits, and the first ones should start rolling out before the end of the year. These kits will function just like other ...

According to a rumor, Maxis is reportedly working on a new simulation game, tentatively titled Lost Astral. Coupled with job listings from earlier this year along with the recent GeForce Now leak, it ...

So, you know that Spore game we have all been waiting for, for, like, ever? Well, according to EA and Maxis, Will Wright’s next gaming masterpiece is finally ready for prime time, as they have ...