The Sims developer vows “our values are unchanged,” as it teases multiple projects from post-Saudi-owned EA

Of their (barely belated) new years message to gamers, the developer of EA’s The Sims collection of video games has evenly addressed issues about its future inside the writer in a wide-ranging letter to the neighborhood.

The letter additionally serves as one thing of a lightweight plan for what gamers can count on quickly, and sooner or later, alongside what the varied groups are presently engaged on.

The developer begins off the yearly check-in with a press release that makes an attempt to handle issues about the way forward for The Sims, traditionally certainly one of EA’s most inclusive and culturally numerous franchises.

This, after all, comes within the wake of final 12 months’s bombshell that EA is being taken personal by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund (PIF), alongside funding companies Silver Lake Capital and Affinity Companions. The $55 billion acquisition was approved by EA’s shareholders in December, and is ready to shut by the tip of June.

Understandably, many raised issues about what EA’s new possession would imply for its folks, and portfolio of video games. The information is regarding for The Sims specifically, a collection that’s lengthy embraced variety and inclusivity, and has traditionally been in style amongst ladies, folks of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.

“Our Sims staff’s artistic management, guided by our values of inclusivity, selection, creativity, neighborhood, and play, has not modified,” the publish reads, although with out referring to the buyout instantly at any level.

“These values encourage the choices we make every day as we plan for right this moment, tomorrow, and the long run.”

As for what’s to return in 2026 and past, it seems like The Sims staff has a number of irons within the hearth. The developer is engaged on “a household of latest Sims experiences” that can discover properties on PC, console, and cell. Crucially, the publish says that not each expertise will likely be on each platform, to ensure that every to give attention to delivering one thing totally different and attention-grabbing.

Future releases, after all, embrace new The Sims 4 content material that focuses on the single-player expertise. The social and extra multiplayer-driven experiences, nonetheless, will as a substitute be present in Mission Rene, the mobile-first life-sim presently in improvement. (Regardless of early confidence that it was a working title for The Sims 5, it is now confirmed that Mission Rene gained’t, the truth is, be a direct successor to The Sims 4.)

A few of these tasks will see extra playtesting all through 2026, so it is best to most likely join The Sims Labs if you wish to hear about when/how one can become involved.