Electronic Arts is an international developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. The company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games.
The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The Sims has won numerous awards, including GameSpot's "Game of the Year Award" for 2000. 'The Sims' franchise also holds the record for best-selling games franchise of all time, with more than 100 million copies of Sims 1, Sims 2, all expansion and stuff packs being sold worldwide to date.