Maxis has leaked the news yesterday in their community update (at the front page) that WorldSims.org and Awesome Sims have merged. Before a press release could be written by the staff of WorldSims/Awesome Sims, Maxis already published the news. The reasons was the lack of staff recently at Awesome Sims. Closing Awesome Sims was not an option, so Mattvols and Melody decided to join the WorldSims team. The article about the merge can be found by following this link at WorldSims.