Val Bruce, a contributor to The Sims Examiner and Machinima Examiner, has been an avid simmer since the original Sims game, in the early 2000s. She is owner of acuppajoe.net and its forum, she is a blogger, and has been creating machinima under the moniker VRevis with The Sims 2, since 2006. Val attended the Sims 3 Custom Content Creators' Camp at EA headquarters in Redwood Shores as a machinima artist, in January 2009, along with other custom content creators worldwide, in preparation for the launch of the latest on the Sims franchise, and its official website. Contact Val at acuppajoe@fastmail.us.