The new Sims mobile game is addicting as hell (and this is a cry for help)

Remember The Sims? It's that game where you lived, laughed, loved, and lost across multiple generations and lifetimes — but in reality were just sitting in front of a computer screen for 14 hours.

Yeah, well, now all of that has been streamlined into a mobile game. And if you're thinking, "Dear god, but I have a life now, I cannot go down this path again," you are correct. An on-the-go version of The Sims is exactly as diabolically addicting as it sounds.

Not to be confused with The Sims FreePlay, The Sims Mobile feels like a truer and more robust spin-off of the classic computer game. Created by EA and Maxis (as opposed to Freeplay's Firemonkeys), it converts all the traditional elements of the main series into a free-to-play model. Read more...