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The Sims 3 Delayed until June

The Sims 3 Delayed until June

Those who had planned to get their virtual families under way with The Sims 3 at the end of February will have to wait a little longer. On Wednesday, Electronic Arts announced that the release date for the hotly anticipated title has been bounced back three months to June 2.

EA didn’t offer much of an explanation for the delay in its official press release, choosing instead to dismiss it in a cloud of PR flare. “The June launch combined with the break-through game the team is building gives us the perfect runway to create awareness for The Sims 3," said Russell Arons, Vice President of Marketing for EA. “The Sims 3 will be the original IP summer blockbuster of 2009 as we build off the success of the best-selling PC franchise of all time to create awareness with both loyal Sims fans and new players.”

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Sims 3 Coming February 20, 2009

Sims 3 Coming February 20, 2009

At the Leipzig Games Convention, Electronic Arts has announced the release date The Sims 3, the latest follow-up in the company’s virtual world, simulated environment franchise. The Sims 3 will hit stores and electronic retailers February 20, 2009, after the end-of-year holiday buying season.

The Sims 3 will launch on the Windows platform, and feature an open living neighborhood where players can explore new surroundings including a beach, mountains, and a town center. The neighborhood will be constantly changing as players add new content and modify their own homes. Sims will also have more highly-developed personalities, featuring new personality traits like altruism, bravery, romanticism…and even kleptomania. Players will be able to combine traits in any way they like to create diverse and unique individuals.

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EA Provides Details, Trailer for Sims 3

EA Provides Details, Trailer for Sims 3

If EA’s placeholder site weren’t a big enough clue for Sims fans what was around the corner, the publisher made it perfectly clear at its E3 press conference this year: The Sims 3 is coming.

Rod Humble, head of EA’s Sims division, took the stage Monday night to explain more about the hotly anticipated update to the franchise. The biggest change will be the scale of the world a Sim is able to interact in. While previous games featured Sims simply going about their own household activities, The Sims 3 will allow players to go out into the town, opening up a new realm of possibilities.

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EA Sets up Shop with The Sims 2 Store

EA Sets up Shop with The Sims 2 Store

With games like Everquest, World of Warcraft and Second Life having already convinced gamers that spending real money on virtual items is a perfectly sane proposition, Electronic Arts cashed in on the concept with the launch of The Sims 2 Store on Monday. The store will allow players to buy everything from desks and bookshelves to TVs and clock radios for their in-game characters.

The store’s initial offerings includes more than 1,000 items in categories like fashions, furnishings, décor, entertainment, home office items, and more. While much of the content has been recycled from previous Sims expansion packs, 100 of the items are exclusive to the online store.

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Ikea Furniture for Your Sims to Cost $19.99

If you thought product placement in movies was getting out of control after watching Iron Man and spotting obvious plugs for Audi, LG, Burger King, and Dell (to name a few), just wait until you see what games have cooked up to compete for dollars. Right on the heels of the announcement for MySims Kingdom, EA’s Sims labels has let news slip of an entire expansion pack based on product placement: The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff, which will allow players to buy all their favorite Swedish-made furniture, virtually.  Read more...

The Sims Get Medieval with MySims Kingdom

EA has sent The Sims to college, on cruises, out on the town, and now, to a medieval fantasy world. The latest incarnation of the ever-flexible Sims franchise, MySims Kingdom, will dump players into a feudal-styled fantasy town where they must help improve a society. The company formally announced the title for Nintendo Wii and DS on Wednesday.

Like the original MySims title, Kingdom will sport an anime-inspired look, and offer characters and lands to be explored. The storyline follows the crumbling kingdom of King Roland, which the player moves into and must aid in reversing with the help of others, including companions Buddy and Lyndsay. Although EA has released few details, players will be able to do everything from tending pigs to finding treasure chests, offering more flexibility and exploration than the original Sims titles.  Read more...

Sims Sales Top 100 Million

Sims Sales Top 100 MillionIt seems as if everywhere you look on games shelves, there’s something to do with The Sims. It’s been incredibly successful – but just howsuccessful has been revealed by game maker EA, who revealed that the game has sold 100 million units.   That’s not as much as all the Mario games puttogether (that totals over 200 million), but still a very respectable figure. Then again, The Sims are available in 22 different languages and 60 countries, giving plenty of people the chance to buy.It’s also a huge online community that racks up over four million unique visitors each month – massive by any standards. The greatest popularity is with women, who comprise 60% ofplayers   Rod Humble, studio head for The Sims label, said,   "The Sims has been an interactive experience for people around the globe to explore their passion for creativity, and weare thrilled to be a part of that."   Next year EA will release the long-awaited The Sims 3, and Humble offered a taster:   "In The Sims3, Sims can go beyond theboundaries of their home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighborhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system."

Sims 3 Next Year

Sims 3 Next YearIt’s one of the best-selling video games ever, with almost 100 million sold. The Sims has become a cultural icon. Now, after three years of planning, ElectronicArts has announced that The Sims 3 will go on sale next year. According to the company, users will be able to fully explore the neighborhood, with unlimited customization for characters, who canbe given unique personalities through a combination of traits. EA says everything can be customized, from houses to neighborhoods. "In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their homelot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighbourhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system," said Rod Humble, head of The Sims Studio. "It is thistype of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities. In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability toenjoy long-term gameplay."

EA Sends The Sims Bowling and DJing

EA Sends The Sims Bowling and DJing

Further stretching the Sims franchise well past is original premise, Electronic Arts announced two new Sims titles on Wednesday, based on bowling and making music. The Sims Bowling and The Sims DJ, both developed for mobile phones, will retain a shred of Sims DNA by allowing players to step into the shoes of either a bowler or DJ and play through their careers.

The Sims Bowling is designed for one-button play, so players are able to adjust the spin and power of the ball while it’s on the lane. Four different game modes – Classic, Strike-o-Thon, Spare-o-Thon and Online Derby – mix up the goals. Online Derby allows up to four players to connect through their mobile networks and compete head to head.

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The Sims On Stage Beta Opens

The Sims On Stage Beta Opens

With Electronic Arts launching new variants of the Sims seemingly every month, it was only a matter of time before the franchise merged with the Web 2.0 trend – and it finally has. Wednesday marked the opening of the open beta test for The Sims On Stage, an online community for Sims fans to share creative works.

Unlike previous Sims offerings, The Sims On Stage is a free, web-only experience, and has little, if anything, to do with actual Sims. After signup, members can record karaoke songs, stories comedy routines, and more. They can keep their recordings private or make them public for all to see.

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