Players Unleashed!

It has been ten years since video game giant Electronic Arts first released The Sims , the best-selling game that allows its players to create a household and then manage every aspect of daily life within it. And since its debut, gamers young and old have found ways to “mod” The Sims , a practice in which gamers manipulate the computer code of a game, and thereby alter it to add new content and scenarios. In Players Unleashed! —the first study of its kind—Tanja Sihvonen provides a fascinating ex