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.
Some URL sleuthing by the domain-watching site Fusible revealed that the domain familyville.com has changed hands and hosts in a manner similar to URLs for Zynga properties like Cityville.
If you’ve ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his humorous, hypnotising talks, you’re probably going to want to settle in and watch this one too. If you’ve never had the good fortune to be assaulted by Will Wright’s smarts, well, you’re in luck.
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I was a little disappointed to learn that The Sims Medieval is essentially The Sims gone… medieval.
