The game studio behind classics like "SimCity," "The Sims" and "Spore" has shut down. Nearly three decades ago, Maxis Software launched the revolutionary game "SimCity," which gave players free rein ...

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 ...

Cameron Lucas is a writer who has been dedicated to the medium for over four years, and an avid player of video games for all of his life. After the better part of a year at Game Rant as a feature ...

Maxis, game developer of the widely-beloved life simulation franchise The Sims, has kicked off 2026 with a lengthy blog post addressing the future of the series. In the blog post, the game developer ...

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 ...

It has been eight years since EA released The Sims 4. While it seems there's still plenty of life left yet in the game as it goes free-to-play, many fans have been wondering about the future of the ...

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 ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. In an ...

The Sims team's "creative control, guided by our values of inclusivity, choice, creativity, community, and play, has not changed" ...

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 ...

Co-founder of Maxis Jeff Braun has joined Jackass The Game and Sin City developer Red Mile Entertainment. Braun joins the company as strategic advisor, and will be working alongside former president ...