Continuing the news coverage of the past two weeks today, we start with two articles that were posted. The first is from ITWorld.com. It's all about how the Sims was born, after a fire destroyed the house of Will Wright. It also talks about the development of the game, and the struggle to keep it supported by EA. For the history, see the article.

On another site, Buffalo News, there's an article concerning the artificial intelligence in the Sims 2. Will Wrightand Matt Brown talk about the Sims 2 in this article, and how the Sims became more intelligent during its development. See the entire entire article for all the details.

Finally, there's another article which allows schools to make teaching a language just a bit more fun. Using the Sims 1, some tools, and so modifying the game, teaching for instance German using a custom version of the game has become fun. Screenshots are also posted to illustrate how the game was modified. See the paper for all about this, and some other customised tools to learn a language.

Thanks to WorldSims, SP Zone and SimsZone for the links.