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Are you in for a fun chat about your favourite games, do you need someone to help you with your game, or do you like to show off your stories and creations? Visit the lounge! Everyone is welcome! 
Just a heads up, for those of you who have an account on the site. The site and forum accounts are separate! So you'll need to sign up for the forums even if you have a site account. 
Earlier tonight I read on Twitter that Origin is going to stop selling physical copies of their games. Meaning, you can only get the games digital through Origin. However you can still get the physical copies through retail. Here's the post:
A Fond Farewell to Discs!
Starting April 4th Origin will be going all digital. This means the entire Origin game store will be entirely digital downloads for PC and Mac.
What does this mean for you? If you're among 99% of our users, absolutely nothing. Your shopping experience hasn't changed one single bit.
But if you're that 1% who still desires a physical collection, we want to let you know that Origin won't be able to fulfill that need beginning April 4th. We’ll still be here when you transition your gaming habits to the wonders of digital downloads.
Digital is fast and convenient. Origin’s focus is to give gamers the best experience, and going all-digital will make that possible.
My celebration nails today!
10 years!!
Woah, there is it. SNW is 10 years old today. If you would have told me about this 10 years ago I would have laughed and would not have believed you. But it's quite a milestone. I'll repeat it again. SNW is 10 years old today. Well, officially anyway. I started in January 2004 I think, preparing the website and content. And somewhere in March I opened up the site. But I never officially opened or anything. So at some point, about a year later, I thought to myself... When did I actually start? I should have an official date or something. So that's when I decided it would be the 24th. And if you were to go on the forums and look at my oldest posts there, those are from September, or even August 2003? Because I've actually had fansites since 2000. But it was just different with SNW. Clearly, cause SNW is still here Despite some bad times when we lost nearly everything. I didn't give up (but it has been hard at times). I managed to get back up on my feet and I started doing again what I love so much. Creating stuff and putting it on my fansite haha. I just love being part of this community. So here's to at least 10 more!!
Giveaway?
As for the giveaway. Some of you may have heard that I was planning to go a giveaway for the 10th anniversary. There will still be one. However, all the stuff I am supposed to giveaway isn't here yet. I was planning to do a video to show all the prizes I'd be giving away. But yeah not much to show now so... I'll do that later for sure.
Q&A!
I've asked if people would be interested in a Q&A video on my channel, and people actually are! So if you have any questions about SNW (or something else you want to say, that's fine too) just comment below this post, or on Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr.
Thanks!
I'd just like to point out that without a loving community, I probably would have stopped my fansite a long time ago. I'm glad to be part of this community. I'm glad I met and meet so many people and made a lot of friends. It's mostly because of The Sims and because of my site. That's just really special to me, and it's something I think about a lot. So, basically. Thank you. Thank you for being a visitor, a member, a fan, a follower, a subscriber, a friend. xoxo Rosie
Het heeft eventjes geduurd, maar de winnaars van de Sims Fotoboek wedstrijd zijn bekend! De mensen die via SNW hebben meegedaan en hebben gewonnen zijn Djerano Sadiek en Marlies Stienstra! EA zal later vandaag per e-mail contact met jullie opnemen voor jullie adresgegevens. Zij zullen het fotoboek ook naar jullie opsturen! Gefeliciteerd namens SNW!
Hier zijn de inzendingen die hebben gewonnen:
Djerano Sadiek
Marlies Stienstra
SimCity is finally available to play offline!
Hi. I’m Meghan McDowell and I’m the Producer for the Single-Player Mode for SimCity that enables Offline Play. Starting today Offline Play is available for all PC and Mac SimCity players worldwide. If you want more info on how we got here make sure you check out Simon’s Engineering Offline Blog where he talks about the 6 ½ month journey from conception to completion. I’m here to tell you more about how it all works.
Happy St. Patrick's Day from The Sims 4!
Do you like creating artworks related to The Sims series? Then this should be perfect for you! Here's a blog from SimGuruLyndsay!
Hello Simmers!
Many years ago The Sims team moved to Redwood Shores – we got a fancy new floor with fancy new décor, we got to name our meeting rooms (Bladder Failure & Social Bunny hee hee) and make it our own. Recently we've been given a chance to refresh our studio again! It’s time to put up some new decorations, new paint, new flair and we want your help! You are such a HUGE part of why we do what we do – your creativity constantly inspires and motivates us. We'd like to create some spaces in our studio dedicated to YOUR creations. What does The Sims mean to you? Paintings, sketches, collages, digital art – what has it inspired you to create? Send us your art – something that represents you and The Sims (any The Sims product that moves you) and we'll start creating a gallery dedicated to you.
What have you made? We'd love to see creations inspired by any of The Sims games – from the very first The Sims , to The Sims 3 , to any of the console games (hey, The Urbz had some amazing style)! Pieces can be any of the following:
- Photographs
- Collages
- Paintings, drawings, sketches
- Handmade crafts that can be hung on walls
Please send your physical creations to:
The Sims
209 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood City, CA 94065Not able to ship something to us but want to share your creations? We’re accepting digital artwork as well! Send your digital wonders inspired by The Sims to: Simleaderalpha@ea.com with the subject line: Artwork for the SimGurus
Get your stuff sent to us by April 4, 2014!
We can't wait to see what you will send us! Keep an eye out on our channels as we'll be sure to show off the creations on our walls!
Thank you for continuing to be part of The Sims universe and helping to make The Sims the special thing that it is.
Lyndsay
Hi guys, for those of you that are Dutch or Belgian, pay close attention. Because you can win a cool Sims photo book! Short explanation: EA started a contest today, and SNW is helping to organize this contest! You can send in a photo of your Sims collection, a cool Sims screenshot, or a cool Photoshop creation, in order to win a Sims photo book! Go here to participate!
The Sims is 14 years old today! And to celebrate that, EA has sent us these lovely cupcakes! I will have my family try them for me, as I can't eat them myself *sad face* haha. Thank you so much EA! <3
I just read on Tweakers / Gamer.nl that EA Netherlands is supposedly closing their marketing department. I have no official word on this yet. And I'm not sure what it means for the Dutch community. But it comes to me as quite a shock. I hope these are just rumours and nothing more! When we know more, we'll report it here!
