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The game, in which you create a character and interact with artificial intelligences in a simulated world, has sold more than 100 million copies since its debut in 2000. It's the best-selling PC game of all time. That's a tough act to sustain, but Sims 3, remarkably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sims 3: Getting Real | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

The new game, four years in the making, is set in beautiful Sunset Valley, a town that has 67 simulated human residents. They are fascinatingly complex and have lives of their own; you can follow them around or spy on them in their homes. All the residents age at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sims 3: Getting Real | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

When creating your character, you get to pick from 70 traits, including "easily impressed" and "kleptomaniac," to add some depth to your Sim's personality. There's a cool new function that lets you make movies online. And moving around is more seamless in this version. Walk your character from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sims 3: Getting Real | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

There isn't any winning in the Sims. The game ends when your character dies. But that's kind of the point: the Sims' allure has always been that if things don't work out in this life, you can start over. Now I'm starting to weird myself out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sims 3: Getting Real | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

The explosion came, appropriately enough, with Achmed the Dead Terrorist, a character Dunham debuted in late 2007 on his DVD Spark of Insanity. Achmed, a bigheaded Halloween skeleton, is a failed suicide bomber. (He had a "premature detonation.") He has not yet come to terms with his demise - he just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Puppet Master | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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