You can chat live with Lucy Bradshaw, Executive Producer of The Sims 2, on Thursday April 1st. The chat begins at 3PM PST (4PM Mountain, 5PM Central, 6PM Eastern) on TheSims.com. This isn't an April fools joke, so don't miss out on your chance to get your The Sims 2 questions answered.

SimCity.com just announced a new castle contest open to anyone with SimCity 4 Deluxe (or SimCity Vanilla and the Expansion Pack) and Castle Ramparts Prop Pack and Lot Editor tool. The goal of the contest is to build the best castle that you can with the possibility of an autographed copy of SimCity 4 Deluxe by Will Wright. You can find all the details at SimCity.com.