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The Sims 25th anniversary remaster

Out Today: The Sims and The Sims 2 Remastered

2025-01-31
By: Christian Cawley
On: January 31, 2025
In: Retro games news

Without warning, the first two games in The Sims series, plus all expansion packs, are set to be released in remastered form today. The 25th anniversary of the series, February 4th, was initially believed to focus on new features for The Sims 4 (which released in 2014), but detective workRead More →

The Sims 2

Sul Sul! 20 years of The Sims 2

2025-01-31
By: Christian Cawley
On: January 31, 2025
In: Retro gaming features

It was The Sims 2 that helped Will Wright’s series of super-powered Tamagotchis to develop from cute game to mega franchise. The Sims will not run on a budget PC World tower with a Cyrix processor and ATI graphics. That was the first thing I learned about Will Wright’s magnumRead More →

Game designer Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims.

Will Wright: The Mind Behind SimCity & The Sims

2025-01-12
By: Christian Cawley
On: January 12, 2025
In: Retro gaming features

How have the games of one developer, Will Wright, managed to punctuate my gaming experiences so decisively over the past 40 years? I realised quite recently that my video game experience, from the mid 1980s through to the present day, has been punctuated by the games of one guy. WillRead More →

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