The Sims series turns 25 next month—fully developed frontal lobe and all—and Maxis has started laying out how it will be celebrating the milestone with new announcements, merch, and game updates. The Sims 4 is getting several different updates and free content drops, starting today and with more to come on the actual anniversary on February 4.

The Sims 4 fans are in for a treat as the game is set to receive a huge content update to mark its 25th anniversary.

The upcoming update to The Sims 4 overhauls the main menu to better emphasize the current save file players are working on. It introduces a smaller

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of The Sims series, EA revealed and began rolling out a series of updates for The Sims 4 which includes some base game upgrades. A patch out today, January 14, brings a refreshed main menu for The Sims 4,

Somewhat unbelievably, this February marks The Sims series' 25th anniversary - that's a whole two and a half decades of "yibs", "neibs", and mysterious "incidents" involving suddenly ladder-less swimming pools - and EA is celebrating the occasion with a whole bunch of activities,