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The Sims 4 for Consoles is getting a New Update Today

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The Sims 4 for Consoles is getting a New Update Today

SimGuruLegacy has just announced that a brand new update for The Sims 4 on Xbox One and PS4 will be releasing today!

The update will fix a few bugs and issues, fix some things around The Gallery and allow you to download the newest creations from it!

Along with the new update there’s also going to be a pack release for Consoles – The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff Pack will be made available for Xbox One and PS4 later today for $9.99!

The update (and the pack) are expected to come out at 7PM CET / 6PM BT / 10AM PT.

The Sims Mobile: Date Night Update Now Available

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The Sims Mobile: Date Night Update Now Available

The Sims Mobile’s latest update is now available for iOS and Android devices!

In this update players will be able to enjoy in numerous new features – including:

  • The Day & Night Cycle
  • Langraab Mansion Premium House Lot – maxing out to 5 residental lots in the neighborhood in total
  • The Sims Franchise 20th Anniversary Quest
  • Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats Showdown

Here’s everything you need to know about the new update:

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Watch the sun set in Briny Heights for the first time, in the latest update of The Sims Mobile! We’re excited to introduce a permanent, real time, day to night cycle: where your Sims can now play out their day to day routine and live their best lives!

It is a staple of The Sims Franchise since the original game released in 2000 and represents a trademark feature of a Sims experience. The day to night cycle will be based on player’s local time (through their mobile phone’s settings), so the game will look dark when you play at night. All lights are now functional and will allow the player to turn them all on, all off or make them automatic.

The day to night cycle will only apply in your Sims home lots in Briny Heights. Lights can be individually switched on and off, or set to automatic, which turns them on during night. You can also change the game time to be “Always Day” or “Always Night” any time you prefer, in your game settings.

Some lights in the game have unique colour swatches – watch them emit an ambient glow in each room, plus combine with other light colours for a new shade!

Also, by a popular request, we’ve made all the windows in the players home lots transparent, so you can now peek inside your house from the outside!

The Sims 20th Birthday 

The Sims is celebrating its 20th birthday! We’ve designed a Limited Time Quest with a fun narrative centered around iconic moments from the Franchise history. Reminisce on your favourite memories of The Sims as you earn an Emerald Plumbob “Hot Tub 2000” & Topiary Llama!  Quest steps will include callbacks to the franchise, including llamas, aliens, gnomes, references to the founding families, the number 20 and the year 2000.

As part of the birthday celebrations, we’ve also created four ‘limited time offer’ packs called Anniversary Bonanza, filled with iconic objects from past and present Sims games! For players that purchase all four, there is a fifth “Special Prize” pack that will rewarded to you redeem for free! The “Special Prize” is the Sim-eating plant, Mawdrey, from The Sims FreePlay!

Valentine’s Day

Create an atmospheric, romantic date night by completing the ‘Dessert for Two’ Sweet Treat Showdown. The event allows Sims to enter a game-show style kitchen to compete against a rival NPC chef and create patisserie treats. As players successfully progress through each cooking task, the risk and difficulty increases with challenging recipes to prove who is the ultimate baker!

Royal Boxes include rewards such as a Sweet Heart Spa, outdoor cinema screen and fishtail female hairstyle but don’t miss the Sweet Box items like tree with fairy lights, fire pit, outfits, lanterns and much more!

Sims Mobile ‘Birthday Quest’ with Wumples

The Sims Mobile is turning two this month! Complete the fun Wumples quest to earn the iconic Wumples bunny costumes for male and female Sims to wear in-game, which players have been requesting these since the character was introduced!

Landgraab Mansion Premium House Lot

The famous Landgraab family from The Sims 4 have resided in Sims Mobile’s Briny Heights neighbourhood for a long time, in a secret hillside mansion! Now they’re moving on up (and away) to a different Neighborhood, somewhere else… and taking their mansion with them!

If you’ve run out of space to build your next project, now your Sims can purchase the land their mansion used to stand on! It features a bigger, extra-large grid size for the ultimate building space (50×30) that is almost double what lots are currently available in Briny Heights! It features a new environment and surrounding aesthetic including an interactable water fountain and round-about for story-telling Simmers to create a unique new adventure for their favourite Sims.

The ‘Grand Mansion’ Sweet Treat Showdown commences later in the update, with gorgeous décor prizes designed to transform your house into luxury home. Royal Box rewards include a regal front gate, solid fence module, see-through fencing, hedging and a pillar! You’ll also love the Sweet Box rewards like a fancy double door, ground stone tiles, female butler outfit, winged bath and more!

Here are the playable event dates for this update (All dates in AEST):

  • ‘Dessert for Two’ Sweet Treat Showdown: 21-day duration that can be started at any time between Tuesday 4th – Sunday 23rd February
  • Sims Franchise Anniversary Limited Time Quest: Available from Thursday 6th February
  • Sims Mobile 2nd Birthday Wumples Quest: Available from Wednesday 26th February
  • ‘Grand Mansion’ Sweet Treat Showdown: 19-day duration that can be started at any time between Thursday 27th February – 15th March

The Sims Mobile: Date Night Update Now Available

The Sims Mobile Reveals the Day & Night Cycle Update Coming Soon

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The Sims Mobile Reveals the Day & Night Cycle Update Coming Soon

After numerous teasers on social media The Sims Mobile Team has finally revealed what their upcoming update is all about!

The Sims Mobile will finally be getting a Day & Night cycle, as seen in the GIF preview down below. The team has teased that the update will be coming in 2 days, which according from the time of the tweet being published will happen in less than a day!

We’ll keep you posted as soon as the update goes live considering that it takes a couple of moments for the update to show up on both iOS / Android and in numerous regions.

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

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Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff Pack has been out for more than a week now and modders / CC creators have been extra busy to deliver gameplay improvements and new objects for the pack!

Down below we’ve listed some of our favorite creations for the pack:

Tiny Homes – Changed Tile Limits

Do you think that the Tiny Home tiers that The Sims Team has set are a bit too extreme? This mod changes the tier requirements, switching things for Tier 1 (100 tiles), Tier 2 (200 tiles) and Tier 3 (500 tiles). With this mod you’ll be able to build much bigger homes and enjoy all of the perks of a Tiny Home!

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

Sinks with Slots

Not necessarily a Tiny Living mod because it doesn’t require the pack but still very useful when decorating your interior! This mod updates all of the sinks from the Base Game + previously released packs, adding slots on the sides that allow you to clutter up your sink however you want!

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

No Murphy Bed Death

Ensure your Sims don’t die when pulling down the Murphy Bed with this neat little mod!

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

Media Marathon Seperate TV

The all-in-one entertainment station from Tiny Living is neat, but doesn’t come with liberated objects that are inside of it. This CC is an object liberation of the TV used in the Media Marathoner object.

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

Slot Override for the Tiny Living lamp

The small table beneath the new Tiny Living lamp would’ve been great if you could place down clutter and small objects onto it. This mod makes all those wishes come true!

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

Toilet / Sink Combo Object

With this object your Sims will be able to both fulfill their bladder and hygiene need. Yeah, it’s a little gross if you think about it but it saves a lot of space in your bathroom!

There are 2 variations of this object that you can download:

Liberated Tiny Living Plant

The Tiny Living tiny plants are very cute, but they come attached to the new bookend. This CC liberates those plants and gives them 20 unique color presets!

Mods & CC to enhance your The Sims 4 Tiny Living Experience

EA’s CEO confirms The Sims 5; Might Have Singleplayer and Multiplayer

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EA’s CEO confirms The Sims 5; Might Have Singleplayer and Multiplayer

EA’s Andrew Wilson confirms the next generation Sims Game – The Sims 5!

First we wrote about career listings that hinted about the production of the next Sims game. Then we had some more clues adding up that the game is in development. And now, we have official confirmation from EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson that the Sims 5 will have multiplayer! Read on to see what he included about the next generation Sims Game – The Sims 5!

Will The Sims 5 have Multiplayer?

In the Third Quarter of FY2020 earnings call, Andrew Wilson was asked a question if Maxis has any plans of relaunching an online version of The Sims. Similar to The Sims Online that was present from 2002 to 2008. Andrew Wilson gave an interesting answer, saying that Maxis is continuously thinking about The Sims for a new generation. And, that features from The Sims Online will become a part of that experience “in the years to come”.

Throughout his answer Andrew shared that, although they will always stay true to creation, escape, motivations and more (hinting at some of the keywords of an offline game). They will also start to embrace a new social experience such as social interactions and competitions (as they were present in The Sims Online years ago) in a Sims experience in the years to come with sims 5 multiplayer included.

Andrew Wilson – Full Earnings Release Transcript

Check out our full transcript from the Earnings Release, including real questions and answers by Andrew Wilson. The audio recording from the earnings release is at the bottom!

Question: Any thoughts on relaunching an online version of the franchise given its large popularity? (referring to The Sims Online that was present up until 2008)

Andrew Wilson (EA CEO): Great question on The Sims! The Sims will be 20 next week. That Maxis team and the team that’s been a part of Maxis over the years continue to deliver unbelieavably innovative and creative content for a constantly growing Sims community globally. As we think about The Sims – again, I reference the motivations of why we play the games – inspiration, escape, social interaction, creation, self improvement, competition. Typically what The Sims has done is really focus on fulfilling the motivations and inspiration, escape, creation, self-improvement and not necessarily focus as much as on social interaction and competition.

But a few things are in fact true over the years. One is that the Sims community continues to grow and with the broad of social platforms continue to connect with each other and share what they do – in and around the game they play. And we’ve seen that manifest in The Sims Online which was a more social experience for us. And we’re also seeing that the competition nature of The Sims is also rising and we’re seeing people compare and contrast. Not competition in an original sport sense but how they create and what they create and how they use their imaginations and what they’re able to build inside of these Sims universes.

As Maxis continues to think about The Sims for a new generation – cross-platforms and a cloud of a neighborhood world, you should imagine while we will always stay true to our inspiration, escape, creation, self-improvement, motivations – that this notion of social interactions and competition like the kind of things that were actually present in The Sims Online many many years ago – that they will start to become a part of The Sims experience in the years to come.

We are very excited. This is a game that really doesn’t have any competition in its category for delivering and fulfilling these motivations for players and we think of the tremendous growth opportunities for us for many many years to come.

So, what are your thoughts on the next generation Sims game and what should be included? Let us know in the comments!

For all the latest news and developments on the next gen Sims – stay tuned to Sims Community!

The Sims 4 has become the best-selling Base Game in the Franchise

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The Sims 4 has become the best-selling Base Game in the Franchise

EA has just released their Q3 2020 Financial Report, sharing some details about the progress and sales of their games during the last 4 months.

During these 4 months The Sims 4 was able to hit a new milestone – over 20 million unique players!

  • Digital net bookings* for the trailing twelve months was $4.128 billion, up 15% year-over-year and now represents 77% of total net bookings.
  • During the quarter, EA launched Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™, Need for Speed™ Heat and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order™.
  • FIFA Ultimate Team™ matches were up nearly 40% year-over-year from launch through Q3.
  • During the quarter, The Sims™ 4 surpassed 20 million unique players worldwide life-to-date.

 

To put some things in perspective, according to the Wikipedia’s List of best selling PC-Games, here’s how the previous Sims games performed:

  • The Sims 1 – 11 million copies
  • The Sims 2 – 6 million copies
  • The Sims 3 – 7 million copies

There are also a few things to note regarding on why The Sims 4 is doing so well. First of all, the game was free for 7 days back in May 2019. Also, the exact same version of the base game was made available for two consoles – Xbox One and PS4.

We’ll keep you updated with more information on our website after the earnings call!

The Sims Mobile Team seems to be teasing the Next Update

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The Sims Mobile Team seems to be teasing the Next Update

The Sims Mobile developers seem to have been teasing the upcoming update for The Sims Mobile!

It all started with the tweet by SimGuruIlya who posted this a picture of weather in Melbourne, putting an emphasis on “Hard to tell what time of day it is”. This originally wouldn’t be considered a hint if there weren’t for other tweets…

Then the hinting continued by SimGuruJack who posted this GIF:

And the last hint was posted by SimGuruMegz which is a video of her dimming the lights:

All of these hints generally revolve around lights, darkness and time of day. If we put all of this together then the team is probably hinting at either the Day / Night cycle coming to the game…or just more lights being added to Build Mode.

Stay tuned to our Sims Mobile News Category and we’ll keep you updated with whathever the next update is all about!

The Sims 4 Base Game is Part of February PS Plus Line Up

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The Sims 4 Base Game is Part of February PS Plus Line Up

PlayStation has just revealed the February PlayStation Plus games line up and it will include The Sims 4 Base Game. You will need to have an active PS Plus Membership to acquire the game.

PS Plus Members will be able to download The Sims 4 Base Game for free from the 4th February 2020 through to the 2nd March 2020.

This is the perfect opportunity to check out The Sims 4 on PlayStation 4! Don’t forget that The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff Pack also releases on 4th February 2020!

Community Voted Stuff Pack: Round Three Voting Is Now Open

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Community Voted Stuff Pack: Round Three Voting Is Now Open

Voting has now begun for the third round of the new Community Voted Stuff Pack! This round of voting is all about choosing your favourite Create A Sim concepts based around the DIY Delight theme.

Not sure what the Community Stuff Pack is all about? You can find out more here.

Be quick as voting for this round won’t be open for long!

Click the image below to take you to the survey! 

Community Voted Stuff Pack: Round Three Voting Is Now Open

The Sims 4 Community Stuff Pack: Sneak Peek at the Upcoming Vote

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The Sims 4 Community Stuff Pack: Sneak Peek at the Upcoming Vote

A third wave of voting for the next The Sims 4 Community Stuff Pack is approaching and SimGuruNinja has shared a small sneak peek on Twitter of the upcoming vote!

As you may know, the upcoming vote for the next Community Stuff Pack (themed Arts & Crafts) will revolve around the clothing style in the pack:

Clothing Style Vote (Late January 2020): Review concept art of families wearing different styles of clothing and decide on your favorite clothing style. This will influence the look of the clothing in the pack.

 

As you can see in the picture below we have a sneak peek of the hats that we’ll be able to vote on. There are of course going to be other clothing options for us to vote on when the poll starts this Monday!

The Sims 4 Community Stuff Pack: Sneak Peek at the Upcoming Vote

You can now Build a Bundle with The Sims 4 Tiny Living on Origin

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You can now Build a Bundle with The Sims 4 Tiny Living on Origin

A few days after the release of The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff Pack on Origin, the Origin platform has finally made bundling available with this Stuff Pack!

This means that you are now able to choose an Expansion Pack and a Game Pack of your choice and bundle it up with Tiny Living for a discount of 35% of the total price.

To bundle The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff you’ll need to have at least one Expansion Pack and one Game Pack missing from your Sims 4 collection.

For more information about the Build Your Bundle feature on Origin – CLICK HERE!

You can now Build a Bundle with The Sims 4 Tiny Living on Origin

EA quietly announces Maxis Texas that’s currently working on a whole new game

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EA quietly announces Maxis Texas that’s currently working on a whole new game

A few months ago we reported on two job listings that have surfaced on Maxis’ Careers Website. The catch – the listings were for a Maxis studio located in Austin, Texas. These two listings revealed that the new studio is set to work on a whole new franchise:

You will lead, foster and mentor an experienced team of developers working on a new IP, crafting the vision and leading the execution of a compelling, innovative and immersive experience. Your strong mix of creative and leadership experience in PC products, mobile titles and live service allows you to inspire the team, provide and communicate vision, drive innovation and create incredible experiences for our players.

 

Maxis’ home base is in Redwood Shores, San Francisco where they’re currently developing The Sims 4 and the next Sims game. However, according to the official job listings that have surfaced, Maxis now has a second studio located in Austin Texas where they’re working on a whole new IP / possible franchise!

The latest job listing has surfaced just a few days ago – making the name Maxis Texas the official name of the second Maxis studio.

Art Director | Maxis Texas

Maxis Texas, EA’s newest Maxis studio, is looking for a visionary Art Director to lead our art team in the creation of a new, unannounced title. We’re looking for candidates with a unique vision and the ability to promote that vision, providing stunning visuals at the highest levels of execution.

At Maxis we’re pushing the boundaries on every front, so you’ll get a chance to stretch beyond your comfort zone and learn while you contribute. Our team culture is collaborative and we expect everyone to think like game makers and approach development with a Player First perspective.

 

It’s still not known which new game is Maxis Texas working on, but considering that the whole nature of Maxis is to develop sandbox & simulation games (such as Spore, SimCity, The Sims) – we could be looking at another creative game coming in the future!

The Sims 4: 20th Anniversary Origin Sale

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The Sims 4: 20th Anniversary Origin Sale

The Sims franchise is shortly turning twenty years old and to kick off the celebrations, Origin has a sale on selected The Sims 4 content.

Note: US/CA save up to 85%. International save up to 75%. Pricing & availability will vary depending on your location.

Base Game – 75% Off

  • Standard Edition – $9.99
  • Digital Deluxe Edition – $12.49

Expansion Packs – 50% Off

  • Discover University
  • Island Living
  • Get Famous
  • Seasons
  • Cats & Dogs
  • City Living
  • Get Together
  • Get to Work

Expansion Packs are priced at $19.99 while on sale.

Game Packs – 25% Off

  • Realm of Magic
  • StrangerVille
  • Jungle Adventure
  • Parenthood
  • Vampires
  • Dine Out
  • Spa Day
  • Outdoor Retreat

Game Packs are priced at $14.99 while on sale.

Stuff Pack – 50% Off

The only stuff pack included in this sale is Movie Hangout Stuff which is priced at £4.99.

Bundles – 10% Off

  • The Sims 4 City Living, Dine Out & Bowling Night Stuff
  • The Sims 4 Get Together, Spa Day & Movie Hangout Stuff
  • The Sims 4 Get to Work, Outdoor Retreat & Luxury Party Stuff

Bundles are priced at $44.99 while on sale.

Now is the perfect time to grab those packs that your collection has been missing. You’ll need to be quick though, this sale is only on until February 6th 2020!

The Sims 4: 20th Anniversary Origin Sale

The Sims 4: The Invisible Slot Filler Mod + Quick Tutorial

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The Sims 4: The Invisible Slot Filler Mod + Quick Tutorial

Not all heros wear capes. Or maybe they do in the comfort of their own home and we just don’t know about it. Either way, the hero today is Reddit user Intern_Waffle as they’ve created an invisible item that will fill surface slots.

WHY is this such a great CC item? Although the Red Shelf Mod helps immensely for cluttering aficionados, sometimes you just want something a bit less time consuming. At a basic level, this Invisible Slot Filler means you don’t have to place, let’s say, 15 sets of books on top of a table just so you can finally raise one set up (using alt+9/alt+0) and place it in your desired clutter spot. Instead, you can place the invisible item in all the slots available on whatever surface you’re using, and then you can place whatever item you want.

Intern_Waffle’s item description reads, “Use this to fill slots on tables, allowing you to free-place items near them without having to worry about objects snapping to slots. You can try to remove them afterward if you want sims to be able to place objects (like on a counter)!

They also mentioned in their post, that this is a great item to use if you don’t want your sims to place an item somewhere!

[EDIT]* – This item can be downloaded from Intern Waffle’s Tumblr HERE.

See the little how-to video in Intern_Waffle’s original post below:

I made an "Invisible Slot Filler" object. You place it on surfaces to fill their slots, and then you can free place objects without worrying about them snapping where you don't want them to!
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Instructions, originally from Intern Waffle’s IMGUR, listed below:

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*Edited 1/24/20 to provide permanent link and website to download.

This Mod allows you to duplicate Worlds in The Sims 4

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This Mod allows you to duplicate Worlds in The Sims 4

A few tutorials, including the one by simply-victoriax and Tamlo31 have been making rounds in the simming community lately teaching folks on how to create duplicates of worlds in The Sims 4. Although the tutorials are very handy, they require a lot of work, tools and effort to make this work.

Basically, with this tutorial you’re able to create an exact duplicate of the world that you’ve chosen, but edit it by your liking and have it inhabited by different Sims and lots that you decide to place down. With this you’re able to literally have as many Sims and lots as you possibly could image (or as much as your PC and The Sims 4’s engine can allow).

Now, Zerbu has come up with a unique mod that can easily duplicate a world of your liking:

With the mod installed, open the cheat console while in the world you want to copy (either in Build Mode or Live Mode), enter worlds.copy, type the name of the new world, click OK, then save*, return to the main menu and reload. That’s it, you now have a new world in your game!

 

The mod can easily be installed by extracting the zipped content to Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods folder.

NOTE: Considering that this is an experimental mod after all, make sure you backup your save game entirely before playing with this mod to ensure all your saves and progress don’t get corrupted!

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This Mod allows you to duplicate Worlds in The Sims 4

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