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The Kiss That Changed Video Games

MEDIA Posted: June 20, 2014 12:38 am

At the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo, the booth marketing the new game The Sims was placed in convention Siberia and no one was paying any attention to it, including the company that was putting it out. “But, within hours, an unplanned, illicit kiss between two of the game’s background characters made The Sims the talk of the show.”

MEDIA Published: 06.19.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 06.19.14

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