PUTTING THE GAYS IN GAMING

Now a global phenomenon, The Sims was almost abandoned numerous times during development. Then, at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3), a videogame conference held in Los Angeles, California, two digital females leaned in for a passionate make-out session in front of a live audience. People were shocked – and probably quite titillated. Naturally, this resulted in the game becoming a huge success.

But the kiss was never meant to happen. Patrick J. Barrett III, one of the game’s programmers who had recently joined the development team, was tasked with writing the code for