Rumor: Ye olde Sims on the way?

Dung festering in the streets. Lack of proper plumbing. Plague. Nearly non-existent life-expectancy. Unending torrents of played-out Monty Python and The Holy Grail jokes.

Those are the medieval times for you. Sounds like a pretty great place for a Sims game, huh?

That's exactly where The Sims are headed next, however, if EA plans on doing anything with a gaggle of extremely subtle domain names it recently laid claim to.

As spotted by superannuation, they are simsmedieval.com, simsmedieval.net, thesimsmedieval.com, thesimsmedieval.net, thesimsgetmedieval.com, and thesimsgetmedieval.net.

Those could be for anything! But - and this is just a wild guess - we think EA might be gearing up for a medieval Sims expansion pack. But then, we could be way off-base. For all we know, EA might just be setting the hype train in motion for its hip new mascot: Sim Smedieval. It's kind of hard to tell with these things.