The Sims turns 25 with updates in FreePlay, livestreams and more
What do you think of when you consider the question of landmark franchises in gaming? Doom? Wolfenstein? The Elder Scrolls? Final Fantasy? Super Mario? Tetris? Well, slow down there buster because you're forgetting the big one, and that's Maxis' landmark title and subsequent series The Sims; and it's turning 25 this year! The Sims was actually conceived as a spin-off to the earlier SimCity series, and like its predecessors was focused squarely on simulating (get it?) the life and times of regular people. In The Sims, you were given unprecedented control over the lives of your individual Sims as they grew up, went to school, got married, went to work, had kids and inevitably kicked the bucket. ... [MORE]
What do you think of when you consider the question of landmark franchises in gaming? Doom? Wolfenstein? The Elder Scrolls? Final Fantasy? Super Mario? Tetris? Well, slow down there buster because you're forgetting the big one, and that's Maxis' landmark title and subsequent series The Sims; and it's turning 25 this year!
The Sims was actually conceived as a spin-off to the earlier SimCity series, and like its predecessors was focused squarely on simulating (get it?) the life and times of regular people. In The Sims, you were given unprecedented control over the lives of your individual Sims as they grew up, went to school, got married, went to work, had kids and inevitably kicked the bucket. ... [MORE]
