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Voldex acquires Roblox title Brookhaven
User-generated content (UGC) studio Voldex has acquired the Roblox life simulation game Brookhaven. As reported by Pocket ...
‘The Sims’ turned players into gods. And farmers. And vampires. And landlords.
Will Wright kindly requests that admirers stop describing him as a god. But what is better shorthand to describe the man who ...
How Creators of “The Sims” Have Spent 25 Years Trying to Make Everyone 'on the Planet' Feel Represented in the Game (Exclusive)
EA's Lyndsay Pearson and David Miotke reflect on what makes 'The Sims' a continued favorite, 25 years later The Sims has a ...
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25 Years Into The Sims, EA Is Still Making The Same Mistakes
The Sims celebrated its 25-year anniversary on February 4, 2025. Below, we take a deep dive on how it's reached its current state and why EA and its fans don't always see eye to eye on what's best for ...
The Sims design mastermind Will Wright says the first Sims ever made were "too good" at staying alive and needed to be stupider for the game to be fun
According to The Sims mastermind Will Wright, the original life sim had to be dumbed down as Sims' autonomy was simply "too ...
UGC company Voldex acquires Roblox life sim Brookhaven
Voldex's latest acquisition in the Roblox space is life sim UGC game Brookhaven, which the company acquired with equity financing.
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Console the rainy day blues with these 10 cozy games
The Sacramento weather is cold and rainy, which means more time inside to play favorite video games like Kirby, Legend of ...
Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
As part of the 25th anniversary of The Sims, the New York Times spoke to the original game's lead designer Will Wright, who ...
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‘The Sims’ Turned Mere Mortals Into Gods. Twenty-Five Years Later, the Addictive Computer Game Is Still Going Strong
The audience for the trailblazing life simulation game has stuck around through new editions, expansion packs and designs to ...
Nearly Every Sims DLC Pack Is On Sale Right Now
And if you prefer the classics, EA recently released The Sims and The Sims 2 again on Steam and its own EA store, complete ...
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'The Sims' Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary With 25-Hour Livestream, Events And Game Updates
The Sims is a strategic life-simulation of the daily activities of one or more virtual people in a suburban household near a fictional city.
The rise, fall, and rise again of The Sims: 10 moments that shaped EA's 25-year life sim legacy
Everyone has to start somewhere, and for The Sims, that somewhere was a Windows PC in your parent's attic. Its humble ...