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It's a dark day for fans who were planning to build pools and remove its exits in The Sims 4.

I sat down for an extensive demo at the EA booth at this year’s E3, and I found a more robust, more involved Sims game with detail that even I didn’t expect.

More new videos that show off the new features in The Sims 4 keep trickling out, giving us more to look forward to in the upcoming life sim.

For their next iteration in the celebrated series, The Sims 4, Maxis has upped their customization game, offering the most intuitive and robust creation suite to date.

EA and Maxis have announced The Sims 4, the next entry in the popular franchise, will be due out in 2014.

SimCity’s first major update will be dropping on April 22nd, officially upgrading the loved and hated city-simulation to version 2.0. The patch is set to address several things including traffic, tourism, game invitations, and more. It will also introduce a couple new features into the game, however, offline play is still not one of them.

One of the biggest complaints about SimCity, outside of its numerous server issues, is the fact that you aren’t able to control the speed of the simulation. This feature, one of the key features of SimCity since the franchise first debuted, was one of the “non-critical” features that was disabled in order to handle the SimCity server load. Now, finally, the feature is coming back, allowing Sim fan

Nissan has planted a seed in the SimCity universe, as players can download the Nissan Leaf Charging Station for free!

In the wake of SimCity’s catastrophic launch, EA president Frank Gibeau has come forward to say something that none of us expected. Apparently, EA is anti-DRM. In other news, flying pigs have been spotted over Chicago and Hell has organized its first official snowball fight.

Are you upset with the current state of SimCity servers? Well, EA feels your pain. That’s why they are offering you a free Origin title, simply for putting up with the server issues during the game’s rocky launch period.