A relic from the first big boom of simulator games has resurfaced as Maxis' SimRefinery has been found and is totally playable. Before it was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1997, the company was ...

It has been eight years since EA released The Sims 4. While it seems there's still plenty of life left yet in the game as it goes free-to-play, many fans have been wondering about the future of the ...

A game being cancelled is sad, but developers losing their jobs is more important. EA seems to have cancelled a new Sims game at the same time that they laid off staff at Maxis. The rumor first came ...

EA revealed they still have Maxis studios in other locations, and they are picking up some core staff in their HQ. Called Maxis Emeryville at the time of its closing, this original studio was actually ...

Maxis is a much different studio than it was back in the glory days of SimEverything, but now that the dark times of modern SimCity have passed and The Sims 4 has found its footing, it seems that the ...

Thank you for posting this. I don't feel so insane now I played this in the very early days too. Of course this led me to be a sim city junky for a while. I always thought this was Maxis' first but I ...

The game, developed for Chevron in 1993, has been uploaded to the Internet Archive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Interest in ...

A Maxis listing has gone out for a new creative director as the studio looks to develop a game based on a "new IP". A new job advert, spotted by PC Gamer, calls for a creative director to "drive the ...

Update, June 9, 2020: In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the original upload for this recovered copy of SimRefinery‘s prototype was taken down from archive.org. As site administrator Jason Scott ...

Catharina Lavers Mallet is the new general manager of The Sims developer Maxis. Mallet is a veteran of the games industry having worked for the studio before as the executive produer on The Sims ...