I'm not a Live Mode player. Or at least I haven't been for the past decade of playing The Sims, so I'd assumed that the itch had left me in my teen years and being a Build Mode girl was a personality ...

Now that The Sims 2 is kinda-sorta playable again on modern machines, you might expect it to be perfect right out of the digital box; its rich simulation of the modern day-to-day (circa 2004, anyway) ...

This is one of those articles where, for once, the headline says it all. Though, for some context: I was one of many fans who flocked to purchase The Sims 25th Anniversary Bundle this weekend, before ...