EA unveils future The Sims game and user-generated content with Overwolf
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Electronic Arts unveiled a future version of The Sims, dubbed Project Rene, with advances in the life simulation franchise. It also unveiled a partnership with Overwolf to enable user-generated content in The Sims 4, which is going free to play today.
In an online presentation dubbed Behind The Sims Summit, EA and its Maxis division made the announcements for the 22-year-old franchise, which has had more than 50 million players to date. EA’s Lyndsey Pearson said during the summit that the new version, presumably The Sims 5 (but EA didn’t name it), is a couple of years away or more.
The changes, along with other updates to existing games for The Sims, represent a big investment by Electronic Arts in the future of the franchise.
EA showed how players can contribute their UGC to the CurseForge site for The Sims. That store will be the official place where players can get UGC for experimentation, self-discovery and imaginative expression. Pearson and Overwolf CEO Uri Marchand will speak at our GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 event in a session moderated by IGN senior editor Kat Bailey on October 25. (The Dean50 code will get 50% off tickets here.) Actress and author Phoebe Robinson hosted the Behind The Sims Summit.
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“As players, creators and storytellers you make the Sims,” Pearson said. “Every day, we’re inspired by the incredible ways you express yourselves from the billions of hours played, breathtaking
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