"Sims 4 studio seeks to avoid 'disrespectful' representations of real-life tragedies"

Link to article.

And yet, you can probably still starve to death or die in a fire or get electrocuted or whatever other common ways to die there were in previous Sims games. Why not remove those things as well, EA, if you're being so "respectful"? (One thing you most likely won't be doing, however, is drowning to death. At least not until the inevitable DLC that includes pools is released, anyway.)

I don't recall natural disasters ever being in previous Sims games, aside from meteor strikes, perhaps, but I do recall them being one of the most fun aspects of SimCity games, especially when you could call up volcanoes and tornadoes and such yourself and direct them around. Not saying they should put them in The Sims 4 for that reason, but I am saying that claiming to leave them out (when they were never included to begin with) for "respectful" reasons is a load of bullshit.

As for the whole lack of "characters with non-binary gender identities" ...yeah, I'm not even going to touch that one at all.

All in all, EA is still doing a bang up job of convincing me not to bother with The Sims 4.

"The Sims 4 gameplay video and hands-on impressions"

While I'm on the subject of The Sims 4 and all...

What I don't really get, though, is why the guy in the video is talking about a lot of that stuff as though it's new to Sims 4, when it was actually part of Sims 3 already, such as being able to talk to people while eating or watching TV at the same time or whatever (well, maybe not all three at the same time, but still), as well as the various creative skills being broken up into individual skills rather than just being rolled up into "Creativity" or whatever.

"Star Citizen hits $49 million in funding, Chris Roberts explains why that's not enough"

This game is either going to be the best damn space sim of all time... or it's going to fail miserably. I'm not sure which, but it's going to be one or the other. I hope it's the former, or at least somewhat close to it, but I fear it's going to be the latter.