PC

Asshole Sims Won’t Let Fish Babies Sleep

When Stephen said an eye needed to be kept out on the “Sims Gone Wrong” tumblr – showing the wonderful ways one of the biggest games on the planet can break – he wasn’t kidding.


February 22, 2012
PC

Marilyn Monroe Eats Pizza, Sleeps Alone In The Sims

Sims modder Pixel Pixies brings a level of wholesome sex appeal to EA’s Sims 3 with her Marilyn Monroe skin, turning a modern family drama into a flick from the ’50s.


January 18, 2012
News

Katy Perry Will Make Your Sim’s Teenage Dreams Come True

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel like you wish you could just, I don’t know, deck out your Sims sim in Katy Perry gear, start a sim-music career and go on tour?


May 19, 2011
PC

The Sims Generations Lets You Hire Strippers And Go Through A Mid Life Crisis

Kotaku AU

Alright. I must have missed the memo – when did The Sims stop being about cleaning up your babies poo poo, or ‘making whoopee’, and start being about hiring strippers and awesome mid-life crisis’?


April 22, 2011
PC

The Royal Wedding Is Much More Entertaining In The Sims 3

The royal wedding between Prince William and his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton on April 29 will be a lavish spectacle of celebrity and ceremony, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that will be remembered for decades to come. That doesn’t mean it will be more entertaining than the Sims 3 version.


April 6, 2011
PC

Live Virtual Life To The Fullest With The Sims 3 Generations

EA Play adds life to The Sims 3 this (northern) spring with the Generations Expansion pack, letting players explore the stages of virtual life on a much deeper level than ever before.


March 23, 2011
Nintendo

The Sims 3 = Man Robbing Your House While You Have Sex

Every game on the Nintendo 3DS has some sort of rotating icon that appears on the system’s home menu. Submarine game Steel Diver features a rotating sub. Ridge Racer has a car. These things epitomise their games.


February 19, 2011
In Real Life

Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?

Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids.


February 3, 2011
PC

A Video Game Dream House, Built Before Your Eyes In Hyper-Speed

Most 18-minute videos on YouTube are dreadfully boring, but Curtis Paradis, avid Sims 3 user, puts on a stellar show speed-building the most elaborate house I’ve ever seen in a video game.


October 15, 2010

At Least The Sims 3 Vampires Don’t Sparkle

The Vampires introduced in The Sims 3: Late Night don’t want to fall in love with one-dimensional teenage girls. They just want to suck their blood.