The Sims 3 doesn't mark the first time the PC-centric life simulation series has come to consoles, but it's the first time that the basic gameplay has remained relatively intact. In the console ...

The Sims invites expansion. In fact, you could say that both the premise and popularity of the game are founded on its ability to extend the simulation of "everyday life" into every possible area.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Life is hard. Between school, work, friends, family--it's a lot to manage. And now you'll get the chance do it all again virtually with The Sims 3! In ...

When the original PC title The Sims saw release, Maxis treated it as a spin-off of their popular SimCity franchise, the 3000 edition of which included a teaser for upcoming title SimMars. Before Will ...

The Sims isn't about death-defying leaps, state-of-the-art graphics, or fine-tuned physics. The Sims is a canvas. It's a series of tools presented to paint any kind of picture you want, to tell the ...

Ever since David Crane and Richard Gold created Little Computer People for 8-bit computers in 1985, gamers have been fascinated with life simulation games, as demonstrated by the huge sales success of ...

For some, The Sims series is a wonderful sandbox simulation in which wacky fake people survive a gauntlet of unlikely house fires or where approximations of school crushes become spouses. For me, it's ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...