Screenshot: Electronic Arts Well, this is a little bit embarrassing. After all the uproar The Sims 4 community raised over Electronic Arts not releasing the My Wedding Stories game pack in Russia, it turns out the expansion is too broken for players to enjoy. Some streamers are even advising fans to avoid buying the game …
So the DICE Awards, the video game industry’s Oscar equivalent, was held last night. A bunch of games took home trophies, including Hazelight Studios’ It Takes Two, which won its second Game of the Year award–but arguably, that wasn’t the night’s biggest news. No, what folks were waiting for was to find out what kind …
Screenshot: EA The Sims 4 community has been in an uproar ever since EA announced that the game’s imminent, queer-friendly wedding expansion would not be released in Russia due to the nation’s homophobic federal laws. Today, the publisher reversed its decision. My Wedding Stories will be released in Russia, and it will be “unaltered and …
Image: Maxis The Russian government is notoriously homophobic, to the point where a law was passed in 2013 that everyone outside of Russia simply refers to as the ‘Russian gay propaganda law’. Which goes a long way to explaining why EA won’t be releasing the latest Sims expansion in the region. In a blog post …
Image: GIANTS Software When Farming Simulator 22 is one of the biggest games releasing, you know you got a quiet week. I’ve only played two Farming Sims. That one that went viral years ago and a different, more recent one on Steam. (Maybe two years ago? Can’t remember.) I don’t enjoy playing them, but I …