Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

After two decades in The Sims ecosystem, I’ve learned to adapt. New art styles? Neat. New systems? Awesome. New expansions every six minutes? I pay my own bills, sure. But Project Rene is the first ...

I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day because the year was 2022 when I first watched EA tease the "next generation Sims game" with the codename Project Rene. Two years later it said "actually ...