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The Sims 4 officially announced

Due next year on PC and Mac.

News by Jeffrey Matulef Contributor

Updated on 6 May 2013

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The Sims 4 has officially been announced by EA.

It's slated for release in 2014 on PC and Mac.

Series developer Maxis will be handling the latest numbered Sims game, the first since 2009's The Sims 3. The series has sold over 150 million copies worldwide

We were quite fond of The Sims 3 back in the day. Ex-EG contributors Alec Meer and Keza MacDonald awarded both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of it an 8/10 in their respective reviews. "It's an essential play for anyone with an interest in what videogames can achieve outside of a targeting reticule," wrote Meer back in his Sims 3 review.

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