Sims 3 teaser posted, more info coming March 19
If there was any doubt that EA would continue to milk the lucrative cash cow that is Will Wright's Sims franchise, that doubt can now be officially expelled. EA has created an official page for the...
View ArticleThe Sims 3 wants you to go outside (in the game)
Filed under: PCWe always found The Sims to be sort of depressing. While creating a virtual replica of your life may seem like an amusing activity at first, you -- like us -- may find the distant view...
View ArticleEA releases first details, screens of Sims 3
Filed under: PC, Simulationsclick to enlarge If you're a Sims fan you've probably been obsessively counting down the days until March 19 when EA would reveal more details on the next iteration of their...
View ArticleMySims inexplicably coming to PC
Filed under: PC, Simulations So, see if you can wrap your brain around this one. In the fall of 2007, EA released a boiled-down version of The Sims on Wii and DS called MySims, which went on to sell...
View ArticleGC 2008: The Sims 3 hitting real and virtual shelves on Feb. 20, 2009
Filed under: Culture, PC, Simulations EA has announced that February 20, 2009, will mark the rather momentous occasion of stereotypical gamers finally venturing into the brightly lit outside world ......
View ArticleThe Sims 3 Collector's Edition pre-order now available
Filed under: PC EA announced today that the collector's edition of Megalomaniacs The Sims 3 is available for $70 at all your standard video game purveyors. It appears the items packaged with the game,...
View ArticleNew Sims 3 trailer shows you how to create a Sim, yet again
Filed under: Mac, PCLook, there's not a lot we can tell you about this. With something like 100 million copies of the Sims, Sims 2 and their various expansions sold worldwide and you, dear reader,...
View ArticleNib frabbit: Sims 3 release date in question [update]
Filed under: PC, Simulations EA is apparently "evaluating the launch window" for The Sims 3, reports Eurogamer. The game was given a February 20 release date last August, but now European retailers are...
View ArticleThe Sims 3 adds vampire look, lacks blood sucking ability
We're going to go out on a limb and say the first thing everyone does when playing The Sims is find ways to torture the tiny virtual citizens. Yesterday, Shacknews reported receiving new screen shots...
View ArticleDRM denied: No online authentication for Sims 3
Rod Humble, head of all things The Sims has announced that The Sims 3 copy protection will not include any kind of online authentication, but will rely instead on a good ol' fashioned serial code....
View ArticleSims 3 online features revealed, analyst says game could sell 4m in '09
EA announced all of The Sims 3's community and microtransaction features today. TheSims3.com will become the hub site for all community and marketing features when the game births June 2. Players can...
View ArticleRumor: Pirates get their scurvy hands on The Sims 3
Unconfirmed reports circulating around the net claim the upcoming life-sim, The Sims 3, has leaked online weeks before its retail release. The Electronic Arts developed title is scheduled to land on...
View ArticleNew Sims 3 trailer treks into our hearts
The Sims 3 has quite a marketing push behind it for a game expected to sell more copies in its lifetime than there are digits in Pi. The upcoming sequel to the best-selling PC title is poised to...
View ArticleSims 3 pirated 180,000 times in four days
We certainly hope Electronic Arts built up some tough skin during the whole Spore piracy pandemic, as it looks like they'll be facing similar buccaneering with their upcoming plumbob-equipped title,...
View ArticleEA calls Sims 3 leak its 'demo program'
"You identified our secret marketing campaign!" EA CEO John Riccitiello said of the large-scale piracy of a pre-release version of The Sims 3. "That was a very large scale - concentrated on Poland and...
View ArticleSims 3 sells over 800K copies in US first month
EA's piracy demo program apparently paid off as Gamasutra reports The Sims 3 sold 820,000 retail copies this June in the US. Digging a little deeper into the numbers, the site believes the game has...
View ArticleThe Sims 3 getting its first of many expansions this fall
As surely as the sun will rise and the moon will set, the first Sims 3 expansion is prepared to waltz into retailers on November 16th this year. The Sims 3 World Adventures will allow players to take...
View ArticleEA stock dropped slightly following earnings report, back up
EA's stock took a near seven percent dive yesterday, following the publishing giant's latest earnings report on Tuesday, GI.biz reports. As of writing this post, the stock stands at $20.55, jumping up...
View ArticleNCsoft's Aion perches atop the US PC charts for Sept.
If the packed queues didn't hint that this was coming, NPD stated that NCsoft's Aion was the top-selling game in the US during September. The MMO overthrew the virtual souls of The Sims 3 -- not that...
View ArticleVideo: Nelly Furtado sings in Simlish, raids tombs, knows kung fu
The latest of the previously announced Simlish music videos promoting the expansion Sims 3: World Adventures has been released. This time, it's Nelly Furtado's turn to try her hand at the nonsensical...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....