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The Sims 2 has the most unhinged drama in the entire series that finally seduced me away from my beloved Build Mode

(Image credit: Electronic Arts) I’m not a Live Mode player. Or at least I haven’t been for the past decade of playing The Sims, so I’d assumed that the itch had left me in my teen years and being a Build Mode girl was a personality trait I aged into. That is until The Sims

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Psychologist says ‘there’s a real sense of effort’ to The Sims 4’s emotional realism, from Maslow’s Hierarchy to personal pep talks

The Sims series turned 25 this week and to mark the occasion we’ve asked a psychologist to take a reality check on The Sims 4 . The series is meant to simulate life, sure, but certain things are always going to be exaggerated for comedic effect. You can’t really die from laughter, right? Well, probably

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War Thunder players take a break from leaking classified information to review bomb their beloved game for adding an auction house

(Image credit: Gaijin Entertainment) Gaijin Entertainment’s War Thunder is usually in the news for one repeated reason: The people who play this military simulator take it incredibly seriously, and have a habit of leaking classified information onto the game’s forums in an effort to win Internet arguments. But when they’re not targeting each other, the

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After 75 hours, I finally cracked what I was doing wrong in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s terribly explained alchemy system

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is rife with sim-y, medieval stuff. You can whet your blades, forge horseshoes, throw some dice, do your laundry, wash yourself in every trough in Czechia, and, of course, do alchemy. If you’re anything like me, that last one is a problem. In my 75 hours in KCD2, I never once

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The Collapse of USAID Is Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds

As Elon Musk’s DOGE team continues to rampage through United States federal agencies, Trump administration efforts to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seem to be furthest along. The impacts of the agency’s dismantling on humanitarian relief, public health, and human rights work, combined with the wider 90-day State Department pause on

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The VPA has been a catalyst for change in Liberia. The EU’s plan to abandon it threatens hard-won gains

Among the potential casualties of the EU’s decision to unilaterally terminate its Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) timber trade agreement with Liberia, is the damage it will inflict on the West African nation’s fight against climate change, says Jonathan W Yiah, Coordinator of the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), the Monrovia-based natural resource management NGO.   Liberia possesses

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Will Porsche destroy an old-growth oak forest in Italy to extend a test track?

Since 2012, the German car company Porsche has managed the Nardò Technical Centre (NTC) in Southern Italy, a famous test drive centre built in 1975 that features a 12.6-kilometre high-speed circular track – the Ring – where numerous world records were broken. The Ring passes through a centuries-old, 500-hectare holm oak forest classified as a

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The Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark is here, and my poor RTX 3070 is now crying sub-60 fps tears

Is there a PC gaming experience more universal than poking at graphics settings one at a time, dropping anisotropic filtering and rendering distance from high, to medium, to low, in the forlorn hope of seeing the framerate counter inch over the 60 fps line? I found myself in that familiar spot this afternoon when Capcom