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Well here is one for the record books. The Sims according to EA has just recently become the top selling PC game of all time. They are claiming sell-in numbers of 6.3million copies of the game.

The Sims has steadily insinuated itself into pop culture consciousness since its release. In September of 2000, the game inspired New York City-based band Electric Funstuff to release a Sims-inspired anthem, appropriately titled Sim-Hilarities, about a player of the hit PC game who finds odd parallels between his life and the lives of his on-screen characters. A take-off of ``Simlish,'' the unique language of The Sims, was featured in last year's season opener of ABC Television's ``Drew Carey Show,'' as well as game footage depicting the office antics at Winfred-Louder Department Store, Drew's place of employment, in its April Fools episode. Most recently, a take-off of The Sims was featured in an episode of Fox Television's ``Malcolm In The Middle.'' Malcolm recreates his own family in a computer game called ``The Virts'' with disastrous results.

The woman sitting next to me owns the game and all the expansion packs.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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