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While aging has been in Sims 3 since the game was released, most of the options for a particular character were focused around their young adult and adult life. The newest expansion, Generations, aims to give those looking for more variety in young and old age some new goodies to play with. This trailer shows a few of these by focusing on the life of one couple. They play together as children, go to parties as teenagers, get married and raise kids, and eventually pass into old age while watching their family grow.

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This Tropico 4 trailer doesn't really show much. Instead, it's more of an announcement for the newest entry in the long-running series of island dictatorship sims. If it's anything like the previous games - and it most undoubtedly will be - it'll be chock full of all sorts of edicts, special buildings angry citizens, and political pratfalls. We just wish this particular trailer had been a bit more interesting, though. One can only look at words for so long!

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Welcome to Freeware Friday, a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge!

The Mechwarrior series is one of the better in gaming. Based upon an old board game, they have consistently put players into the cockpits of complicated war machines and told them to, plainly, "figure it out." While the second is one of the most revered classics on the PC, there have been four main series games to date. The last is Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries, and while it may have not received the attention that Mechwarrior 2 did on release, it's grown considerably in appeal as time has gone on. The folks at MekTek have partnered with Microsoft and the remnants of FASA to bring this excellent game to everyone for free, and with it being free, there's now no reason not to play it. After all, it's a large, commercial-quality game that runs beautifully on modern systems.

Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

Shortly after Descent 2 was finished, the developer, Parallax Software, split into two different developers. The first was Outrage Entertainment, who produced Descent 3. The other is Volition. While Outrage has since gone defunct, Volition is still going strong, thanks in part to the success of the Saint's Row and Red Faction franchises. These are not the games that put them on the map, however. Freespace is the game that cemented Volition as a rising star in the game development community, and thanks to GoG.com, newer players can enjoy this space simulation classic. It's easily on par with other esteemed franchises like Wing Commander and TIE Fighter, and it has aged considerably better than its colleagues.

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Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

There's always somewhere new to go in any genre. This is not so much wistful thinking as it is hard fact, since you can combine genres and fiddle with them to create entirely new ones. When one mixes fantasy RPGs, real-time strategy, and world simulation, something beautiful happens, and its name is Majesty. While the second one was released recently, the first still deserve attention, thanks to some extra features not included in the sequel and the fact that it is just so good. After all, it's hard to pull off such a wild genre mix like this, but Majesty makes it look easy.

Note: All of the versions linked in this article are Majesty Gold, which includes the expansion pack as well as the original game.

Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

Today, Will Wright is known mostly for his life-simulation The Sims. The series as a whole is easily the most popular out of any he has worked on, and is the most popular series in PC gaming. It has a wide appeal, with the grandmother next door being just as likely to play it as the hardcore first-person shooter gamer you hang out with on Saturdays. This was not what launched his career, however. The series that catapulted Will Wright to super-stardom, as it were, is SimCity. While the classic series has four installments (SimCity Classic, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity 4), the game that defined the series was easily SimCity 2000. Changing the viewpoint to isometric, upping the graphical fidelity, and adding many new options turned a relatively simple urban planning game into a classic that endures to this day.