Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

For some, The Sims series is a wonderful sandbox simulation in which wacky fake people survive a gauntlet of unlikely house fires or where approximations of school crushes become spouses. For me, it's ...

In brief: In these days of economic uncertainty, we can all appreciate a freebie or two. Gamers currently have a couple of oldies-but-goodies they can grab gratis: the RPG titan that is Fallout 3 ...

Those who know anything about The Sims 3 may know that Electronic Arts and Maxis did not optimize this game very well. There are a lot of reasons for this. One reason is that it’s an open-world 32-bit ...

Let's run it all the way back to 2000. EA is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Sims by making the original game and The Sims 2 available to purchase once again. You can buy them separately — ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking that EA has forgotten about The Sims 3. It's been 16 years since launch, and The Sims 4 has been the clear focus for the past few years. Until now, anyway. A surprise ...

If you're a fan of life simulation games, you'll be happy to hear that The Sims 4 has officially gone free to play. Although the expansion packs and DLCs will still cost money, you can download the ...

The basic cheats we will go over first need to be typed into the cheat console by hitting Ctrl + Shift + C (Command + Shift + C on Mac). enableLlamas on/true/off/false Turns on/off the llamas. Joke ...

If you've been returning to life sims of years past, you'll want to brush up on all the Sims 3 cheats at your disposal. Personally, I just needed to remind myself the syntax for the move objects cheat ...

Sims Medieval not launching is one of the issues reported in forums. The problem mainly occurs because of compatibility issues, but there can also be other reasons. But luckily, fixing the issue isn’t ...

If The Sims 4 game is lagging every few seconds on your Windows 11/10 PC, then we have a few solutions in this guide that can help you fix the issue. The Sims 4 is developed and published by Maxis and ...

The original Sims for PC is back! The Sims 1 has re-launched as The Sims Legacy to celebrate the series' 25th birthday, and we've tested every Sims 1 cheat code we could find to figure out which ones ...