First the screens:

Now, two good Kotaku pieces about Sims 3. The first is about the game as a whole and talks some about the criminal career and the second deals specifically with the occult. Both have new screens.
Images|EA

I didn’t want to believe that the reported delay was going to affect the US. I wanted to stay in my little fantasy world and believe that the delay would only hit the foreign markets and that the US would be able to thumb our noses at everyone else.  [Not very nice but we were SO close to the release date!]
And then, I saw this in an EA press release:
“The June launch combined with the break-through game the team is building gives us the perfect runway to create awareness for The Sims …read more

Since you can apparently NEVER have enough Stuff Packs, Maxis and IKEA are presenting the latest in a LONG line of Stuff Packs:The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff.
You can pre-order the game through Amazon or via direct download from EA’s website.
The Stuff Pack will be released on June 23rd and promises to be well worth the $19.99…assuming you dig IKEA.
 

Yesterday, Maxis and Sims 2 officially celebrated 100 million games sold worldwide. How’s that for staying power? The little game that almost wasn’t has kicked much ass and just keeps on kicking.
In celebration of this joyous event, Maxis has added a snazzy “exclusive download“.
You can either click on the picture in this post or click the “exclusive download” link to get your shirt.
See? I’m always looking out for you guys.

I thought you’d be able to enjoy the comic from here, but apparently you’re gonna have to go here to really enjoy it.

Did you know that The Sims was almost NOT made?
According to Will Wright, in his interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Sims “was referred to as “The Toilet game”. It was the game where you clean the toilet. We had a product review meeting at Maxis where we had to decide whether we’d publish this thing or not…and the executive said “No, let’s do [something else]”.”
Apparently Wright was one of the few people who realized just how great The Sims could be and because of that was one of the few who went to bat for the game.
Though Sims tested …read more