The Sims

 CA The Sims 3 review - We give our final verdict on the long awaited people sim sequel. Mac Monday - This week's Mac games column takes a look at the RPG Science Girls! Freeware Friday - Our weekly look at free PC game examines the creepy horror themed ...

 CA While the spec bumps are relatively modest, the iphone's game-playing prowess has already been more impressive than early pundits predicted, especially on recent releases like The Sims 3 and a PC-perfect port of Myst. The only thing missing now is. ...

 CA The customizing characters feature in The Sims 3 may cause me to re-join the fold and the legion of electronic dollhouse fans who have set sales records already for this game. When I first got my Wii, my very favorite thing to do with it was make ...

The Sims 3 is out and available for purchase online and at your local video game retailer (provided your house is not on some God-forsaken rock out in the sticks where no sod lives). So, if you're itching for some nudy-nudy Sims action now's your ...

 CA There's a whole other world that wasn't even shown in the trailer that's a part of Gamer, it's called Society and it's essentially a real-life version of The Sims. She looks so trippy colorful because that's what her avatar looks like in that game. ...

The Sims 3, one of EA's major 2009 releases, has seemingly been leaked online two weeks before its official US launch on June 2. Torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay is currently carrying a number of Sims 3 files weighing in at around 5GB. ...

The launch of The Sims 3 is off to a disastrous start, with reports flying around the internet that a copy of the game has been leaked to notorious...

 OH - J.T. Friedman Just like the game The Sims, Congress could help us make the decisions we have obviously failed to do ourselves, and in that process they could achieve perfect equality, save the environment, and educate us to our fullest potential. ...

EA's headquarters). After all, his Spore was a homemade hit for EA last year, sure to spawn sequels and add-ons. Everybody knows SimCity, right? And The Sims with its plethora of sequels and add-on packs, has sold more than 100 million copies for EA ...

 UK by Narin Bahar One of the first games I ever fell in love with was Sim Tower on the PC. Back before The Sims became cluttered with expansion packs, there was Sim City and then Sim Tower burst onto the scene. Hotel Giant 2 taps into this in a very ...

Contestants' games are demonstrated and winners are announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Past winners have included Will Wright (The Sims, Spore) and Harvey Smith (Deux Ex), and topics have included love, the poetry of Emily ...

I think The Sims 2 and Spore were the number one and two pirated games in Eastern Europe. I had a conversation with a custom content creator in Korea, and she was referring to people who downloaded the game. I asked if it was hard waiting for things, ...

I thought I'd put Barbie and all her naughty tricks behind me until about four years ago in college when I discovered The Sims. For those of you who don't know what that is, The Sims is a computer game wherein you invent characters and control every ...

The session, entitled “Real World Texture Painting Tips for Game Developers,” will be led by Kris Orpilla, a character modeler and texture artist at Electronic Arts (EA) in The Sims Studio division, where he brought his expertise to bear on the newest ...

The session, entitled “Real World Texture Painting Tips for Game Developers,” will be led by Kris Orpilla, a character modeler and texture artist at Electronic Arts (EA) in The Sims Studio division, where he brought his expertise to bear on the newest ...

 UK Last year, EA closed down its casual label, shifting operations to The Sims' head Rod Humble, resulting in Vrabeck's departure. To comment on this article, or view other users comments, you must be logged in to a GamesIndustry.biz Network account.

 UK Vrabeck announced her surprise departure from EA last November, where she had been heading up the rapidly expanding casual division – which, incidentally, has since been merged into the firm’s The Sims unit currently headed up by Rod Humble. ...

By Xav de Matos We're going to go out on a limb and say the first thing everyone does when playing The Sims is find ways to torture the tiny virtual citizens. Yesterday, Shacknews reported receiving new screen shots of The Sims 3 via email with the subject line: 'The Sims 3 Vampire Screens.' Could it be? Can we...

By Andy For those expecting the newest version of The Sims to be here in under a month, it seems to be that this will not be the case. I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but that is how things look. EA has issued the following statement...

 CA - Nov 13, 2008 Spore is the latest offering from Will Wright, the inventor of the games “SimCity” and “The Sims.” Wright believes that computer games should be more ...

By SVGL It also restructured its casual business -- instead of having Pogo, EA Casual, its Hasbro-licensed stuff and The Sims in separate arenas, it seems to be moving toward consolidating them all under The Sims umbrella; at least, ...

By fire_faerie Me, I LOVE the Sims. It's a great game that allows me to escape from the world for a while, and submerge myself in the problems of others. It has loads of cool stuff, and loads of Harry Potter related things (not in the main game, ...

By rickm The latest installment of the popular videogames will feature dynamic in-game ads, which can be changed out when the game has a live Internet connection, according to reports in AD AGE. In...

Playing God while playing 'Spore' Justice (subscription), MA - It was developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright, the renowned brainpower behind The Sims and SimCity. When the highly anticipated life-simulation game ...

By Abbey Klaassen When “The Sims 3” launches in February, the popular video game promises to be more realistic than ever, thanks to improved graphics, better processing power and an increase in ads. Yes, an increase in ads. Electronic Arts, maker of ...

 New Zealand - Electronic Arts also publishes the female-friendly blockbuster virtual life game The Sims, which has sold over 100 million copies worldwide since its launch ...

By A.B. Before handing my computer over to my dad, I made a back-up on my external hard drive of my entire Sims 2 folder (My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2). I really hope I backed-up the right thing, because as I was uninstalling the games the ...

By Dave Parrack I really can’t see this movie working, and I actually think it’ll end up being a real mess. Which is a shame as the building blocks for a great movie seem to be in place. Maybe if The Sims game was dropped from the discussion altogether ...

By Neil Miller Although, if it were me making the movie, I would take the Weird Science concept and apply it to a different game in the Sims universe — the original classic, Sim City. How cool would it be if you were playing good ole’ Sim City 3000 on ...

By Jonathan Cresswell 1pm. Lunchtime. Sitting with a rather nice sandwich on a possibly over the top Dell XPS. I mean, seriously, surely this defeats the point of a laptop? I’m not saying everything should be an Eee PC, but… ah, right, yes, EA. We’re probably almost half way through the day, and so far I’ve seen Sim Ani...

By Jonathan Yahtzee’s opinon seems to fall into the “meh” category or the more specific “not as good as The Sims” category. For once though, it’s nice to hear someone’s opinion on the game itself without the mention of it’s DRM since it’s been ...

Last week, I got a look at “The Sims 3” for the first time. To be honest, I hadn’t played “The Sims” since the release of the “Hot Date” expansion pack for “The Sims 2″; it was then I had the sudden realization that I should go outside ...

By ThePit “Spore“, from the makers of “The Sims” and “Sim City”, has to be one of the coolest video games I have ever seen. It takes the ideas behind both “The Sims” and “Sim City” and expands on them in ways I never thought possible. ...

 MA - Sep 5, 2008 Mr. Wright, who made pop culture history when he created the massively popular PC world known as “The Sims,” calls his new creation “the ultimate God game,” ...

By Valerie S. I could play The Sims 2, but I’m at a point in that game where I want to start making storylines for my characters so I can post them on my Sims 2 blog, and that’s really time-consuming. Is it really possible that I’ve lost interest in ...

By wraggster Your Sim is moving into an apartment building full of interesting neighbors and a wide variety of pets. As the manager of the on-site pet spa, your Sim can earn Simoleons by making sure that the local pets get the right treatments to ...

 IL - Wright is the creator of the groundbreaking console game The Sims, and he talks about what he looked for when creating the Sims’ environment and what he ...

By Judhudson The Sims 2 Apartment Life is set to release next week, and I’m sure most if not all of you are excited. How about taking a breath for a second then head on over to PTGamers to check out around 200 images from the next expansion pack. ...

Our Sims have worked hard so now they deserve a nice vacation.The kids in school and teens year round want a spring or summer break at the beach with their friends. Well the... [Read More]

By wainwrightann Click on the box to see an Ikea Sims video!! aoljpictureUpload, aoljpictureUpload_2.

By Mani Marte gs_playground I have been enjoying that quite a bit and getting a little bit of writing practice. I read an article today about The Sims 3. I must say that I am looking forward to that. I really do love the Sims. ...

Just like regular Sims Except you can NEVER go outside.

By Justin McElroy Today, the inevitable future looms just a bit closer with The Sims Carnival going into open beta. Right now, you can play some of the offerings from closed beta folks, who've come up with some really bizarre entries like this terrible ...

By Andy On top of all this, I have The Sims Complete Collection that Kelli and I played for a few weeks before we got the Wii (see, finding a video game to play with the significant other has always been a high priority for me), ...

Just like regular Sims - Except you can NEVER go outside :(

By Rilana Ummm…yesterday, Hubby purchased The Sims 2 Freetime expansion pack for my computer. I haven’t had a whole lot of time playing with it yet. Hannah is a Sims 2 hog. So, I am going to try and get into playing tonight/tomorrow. ...

Making the Sims look more and more like alter egos we'd like to swap places with, Electronic Arts has now revealed that it is planning to the release of a new content pack for The Sims 2. Named IKEA Home Stuff, the expansion is exactly ...

Sims go to Ikea EA has announced a new add-on for the Sims series. Due out in June, the Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Pack, features a selection of the chain's latest products. ... THE SIMS ANNOUNCES THE SIMS 2 IKEA HOME STUFF COMING IN JUNE MCV Sims It's Ikea Time Glasgow Daily Record

By Brian Ashcraft The concept was simple: A virtual dollhouse. Will Wright was coming off of SimAnt, and he was looking to do more. Wright at his team at Maxis began working on what would become The Sims, a game that play-tested so poorly that there were doubts it would be released. The game was and of course went o...

 NY - Oct 4, 2006 It all started with a game called Sim City or did it start with the Sims, or maybe it started with the variants of the Sims. Well ...