I think Fridays are great news days and today is no exception.

I was perusing the Sims 2 website and a cute little thumbnail caught my eye. I blew up the picture so that you could enjoy the news for yourself.

“Fun and drama await as your Sims discover apartment living – from getting along with new neighbors to meddlesome landlords, building their reputation to visiting new local hangouts.”

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent countless hours since the original Sims came out trying to construct a workable apartment where everyone stays in their own cute apartment. Unfortunately, things never worked out the way that I wanted and University was about the closest that I could get.

Now, Sims 3 promises apartment living and I think that’s pretty groovy. I can’t wait for more information and some sneak peeks.

Post from: Sims Gamer

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 poorly with some age groups [14 year old boys] it’s main fan base is women – a whopping 60 %. And those women have bought The Sims and its various offshoots like it’s going out of style – snatching up somewhere around 90 million copies of the simulation game.

Since its “toilet game” start, The Sims has spawned 7 expansions as well as Sims 2, with its five expansions. [and counting]

I’m sure those kinds of numbers make Wright very, very happy that he fought for such an unlikely game.

Post from: Sims Gamer