the sims

There Are A Lot Of Filthy Words Written In Simlish In The Sims Freeplay

The Simlish alphabet has been translated before, but The Sims Freeplay, the game’s mobile edition, appears to use a different one. Redditor Bump424 this morning published what figures to be the game’s Rosetta Stone, and found some wirty-dords hidden in the signs.


Hacker Likes Using The Sims 3 Torrents To Acquire Women ‘Slaves’

Over the weekend, Ars Technica wrote a great feature on hackers who abuse remote administration tools (RAT) in order to gain access to the computers of strangers. The purpose of using a RAT in this case is to gain control of computers featuring webcams — these allow the hackers to spy on their targets, which they call “slaves”.


Wreck-It Ralph’s Deleted Scene Mashed Up GTA And The Sims

When it hit cinemas last year, Wreck-It Ralph had lots of little details that made the Disney film feel like one of the few that got video games right. MTV reveals that some of the best stuff — an open-world social game where Ralph goes to mope after pivotal events in the film — never made it into the final cut of the movie.


Now There’s An Entire Studio Dedicated To Making More Mobile Sims

Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I quite want to be, your mountains so lofty, your development studios dedicated to creating more mobile games for The Sims franchise so fresh and new. EA Maxis has opened Maxis Helsinki to focus on making virtual people for us to torture on our tablets and phones.


Zynga Hits Back Hard At EA Over Sims Copyright Suit

Zynga has aggressively responded to EA’s lengthy copyright lawsuit claiming that Zynga’s The Ville ripped off EA’s own The Sims Social.


4 Tips For A Better Date, Courtesy Of The Sims

So I was playing the upcoming Sims expansion, The Sims 3: Supernatural, at the EA Summer Showcase last week. Here’s the thing: I’d never played The Sims before. I sure learned a lot about how to go on a better date though!


Seasons Coming To The Sims 3

Due out for the PC and Mac in November, The Sims 3: Seasons brings seasonal weather and events to EA’s popular people-growing game.


Werewolves, Zombies And Fairies Run Amok In The Sims 3 Supernatural

After EA added vampires to the mix in 2010′s Late Night expansion, The Sims 3‘s fans have been clamouring for a way to faithfully recreate scenes from Twilight without having to resort to user-created mods. The Sims 3 Supernatural heeds their moody metaphysical call.


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.


But What Happens If You Set Fire To The Video Game Wedding Guests?

The Sims is video gaming’s great virtual dollhouse, inside of which a bunch of virtual people are made to experience joy, heartache and weddings that spontaneously turn into infernos. I found out about that last incident this morning, while helping grab images for our writer Kate Cox’s terrific story about the pros and cons of marriage (according to video games.)


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