10°

IGN: Charting The Sims Expansions

With The Sims 3 here and breaking all sorts of EA sales records, it's only natural that IGN begins to turn their thoughts to the inevitable expansion packs. After all, The Sims had seven expansions, not counting the special compilations that blended the core game with expansions. The Sims 2 beat that with eight expansions, again not counting special compilations.

Now, as financial companies like to tell you, past performance is not an indicator of future performance, but IGN thought they would chart out the expansions for both games to see if they could notice any trends that could give them clues as to what may be coming up for The Sims 3.

30°

Ranking The Sims 2 Stuff Packs

KeenGamer: "From IKEA homeware to fun kids' stuff, let's rank all the Stuff Packs for The Sims 2. Expansion Packs gave us lots of great new ways to play, but Stuff Packs allowed you to deck your Sims out in cool new outfits and jazz up their homes with great new objects."

Read Full Story >>
keengamer.com
70°

The Sims Voice Actor Reveals There is No Simlish Dictionary And More

A voice actor for The Sims spoke about his experiences doing voice work for the game's fictional Simlish language, and how there was no dictionary for them

Read Full Story >>
techraptor.net
190°

The 10 Best Spin-Off Games That Are Better than the Original

Xfire writes "It's not often that a video game franchise becomes successful enough that it gets a spin-off title or two. However, while most spin-offs help expand the base, some spin-off games end up being better than the original."

TallDarknWavy1110d ago

Zombie Army 4 was incredible, it just inches out Sniper Elite 4 which was also incredible.