Digital Arts right this moment introduced new updates for the way forward for the Sims franchise. Along with updates concerning the video games, it additionally teased a transmedia undertaking: The Sims is getting a movie adaptation.
LuckyChap and Vertigo Leisure are producing the undertaking, and at current we solely know a number of particulars about what it’s going to appear to be. EA additionally revealed a number of particulars about upcoming additions to the video games (although The Sims 5 was not amongst them).
Kate Herron is directing the movie and co-writing with Briony Redman. At current, not one of the corporations concerned have revealed any particulars concerning the movie’s characters or story, however Katy Gorman, EA’s GM of The Sims franchise, instructed Selection, “You will note plenty of ‘The Sims’ universe come to life and you will notice plenty of the traditional experiences that our gamers have within the video games come to life within the film… I’m certain a pool with no ladder is someplace in there, however we haven’t finalized any of these particulars. However that’s the concept, is to say that it lives inside this house. It’s a nod to the entire wonderful play and creation and enjoyable that individuals have had during the last 25 years inside The Sims.”
EA additionally revealed different particulars about the place it’s taking its life sim franchise, together with future methods for gamers to socialize and benefit from the recreation. It revealed that Challenge Rene, its mysterious next-generation undertaking, may have an invite-only playtest in fall, the place gamers can check out a multiplayer part and expertise enjoying collectively at a shared location.
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The Sims 4 and different near-future tasks
Laura Miele, president of EA Leisure, stated within the firm’s Investor Day presentation that they’re disrupting its conventional sequel mannequin by creating an enormous Sims platform, fairly than restarting with a brand new recreation. Along with Challenge Rene, an “fully new Sims expertise,” it plans to modernize and replace The Sim 4 as the inspiration of its new mannequin. It’s additionally reinvigorating the comfy spinoff MySims with a bundled Change launch known as My Sims: Cozy Bundle.
The Sims 4’s massive new characteristic revealed right this moment is Creator Kits, collections of content material created by members of the group. It is a first for the sequence, regardless of its massive and engaged creator group. Miele additionally revealed the corporate is engaged on a cell title known as The Sims: Challenge Tales, a platform for creating and sharing tales created in The Sims universe. EA plans to attach all of those experiences with a shared social community.
Miele stated that the franchise has longstanding emotional connections with its viewers, and it has invested in its group. “We all know the potential of The Sims is uncapped, as a result of it sits on the intersection of gaming, creation, the human expertise and social engagement. And our ambition it to construct the world’s largest on-line gaming group for creators on the velocity of popular culture.”
