The Sims

In Real Life

Meeting My Daughter For The First Time (In The Sims)

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2:00PM January 23, 2012 | Mark Serrels

“I’m not sure if I want to have children.

“Maybe we won’t have enough money for a new house, or that extension you were talking about. What if I want a TV?

“Didn’t you want to buy all that furniture?” More »


News

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

6:30AM January 18, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

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? More »


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Tossed Salad Sex And My Little Pony Meet-ups Combine In Weirdo CGI News Report On The Sims Creator’s Next Game

6:00AM January 4, 2012 | Evan Narcisse

We know that the next game from Will Wright wants to create a unique gaming experience powered by data about how you live your life. Apparently, gamers, your lives include roughage in the bedroom and lots of booze-filled brony love. More »


In Real Life

Wii-Owning President Obama Doesn’t Care If The Xbox Version Is Better

11:30AM December 22, 2011 | Owen Good

Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred. More »


News

Sims Creator Will Wright Reveals Hivemind

6:40AM November 17, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

It looks like Will Wright might be going from manipulating tiny fake people to manipulating normal-sized real ones. VentureBeat’s got news of Hivemind, Wright’s experimental foray into what he’s calling personal gaming. As he describes it, the engines and/or algorithms that power Hivemind will learn and track events in your life and morph the game experience accordingly: More »


PC

There Are Voice Actors For Dogs. And Horses.

1:20AM September 17, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Hard-working professionals (who usually stand on two feet) are paid to sound like dogs and, now horses in the video game series The Sims 3 Pets. Today, we present footage of some of their work. More »


PC

The Sims Social Overtakes FarmVille

1:30PM September 10, 2011 | Owen Good

EA’s designated Zynga-killer, The Sims Social just toppled FarmVille from its No. 2 perch in “daily active users”, the key stat describing a Facebook app’s popularity, according to app-watching site AppData. More »


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Yes, That’s A Mabari War Hound In The Sims 3: Pets

3:30AM September 3, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Who says cross-game promotions never work out? If you pre-order The Sims 3: Pets: Limited Edition on Xbox 360 or PlayStation, you’ll get a dozen exclusive breeds of dogs, including a panda chow, skunk birman, and — in a Kotaku-exclusive reveal, because we’re an important media outlet — a Mabari War Hound from Dragon Age. More »


PC

The Sims On FaceBook Debuts With Almost 5 Million Users A Month

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2:00PM August 19, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Call me elitist, but every time I hear about the success of another Facebook game, I think about all the status updates, alerts, requests I’m going to have to ignore/delete/block. It’s just instinct. Facebook is for social networking/discussing what I had for dinner. But that being said, The Sims on Facebook has made it’s debut and it already has almost 5 million active users per month. More »


PC

Why Video Game Cats Might Throw Up

2:30AM July 28, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

I have a cat. She often throws up. Why? Sometimes she gorges herself. Sometimes she’s chomped on the houseplants too much. Sometimes she’s just angry at me or my wife. More »