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The PC video-game chart often gets overlooked when the NPD Group numbers for hardware and software sales are announced each month. After all, the big battle between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii is much more interesting than the supposedly moribund market for PC titles. But a quick look at the ... |
22 October 2009
04:36 GMT |
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The Sims 3 World Adventures expansion pack is set to arrive in November and Electronic Arts is keen on showing off the new content that players will enjoy when getting this fresh Sims experience. One of the selling points of the package is set to be the music featured, with a lot of stars, including Katie Melua and L... |
15 October 2009
03:56 GMT |
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The fact that Will Wright left Maxis and Electronic Arts to create something called Stupid Fun Club, a self-described think thank focused on entertainment, caused a small earthquake in the videogaming world.The man who has designed such franchises like The Sims, Sim City and the more recent Spore could be in a positi... |
12 October 2009
04:09 GMT |
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These seem to be tough times for all videogame developers. Raven Software, which has put together the newest Wolfenstein title, has announced layoffs amounting to around 60 people, and now Maxis, the Electronic Arts subsidiary in charge of creating last year’s Spore and this year’s The Sims 3, is said to ... |
27 August 2009
12:41 GMT |
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A listing for a job on Gamasutra seems to indicate that The Sims 3 is being ported to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and to the PlayStation 3 from Sony. Neither of the two consoles has seen any Sims games adapted for them, which means that a wide array of gamers have never been exposed to the addictive quality of life s... |
10 August 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced a loss for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, saying that it has a budget gap of 234 million dollars, which is significantly more than the 95 million loss reported for the same period of last year.Overall sales have also dipped, with the publisher only selling videogames worth... |
5 August 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is announcing that the first of what will indisputably be many expansion packs for The Sims 3 is set to arrive on November 16, 2009 bearing the rather uninspiring name World Adventures. The game is in development at the moment and it will be outed for both the PC and Mac platforms, although the releas... |
4 August 2009
18:11 GMT |
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The NPD console charts have come and gone, but the sales analysis groups have also revealed their stats about the PC gaming market and how it fared during the month of June. To almost nobody's surprise, the game that reigned supreme was Electronic Arts' The Sims 3 title. The game, which is exclusive to the... |
29 July 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts must be pleased with the performance that its games on the United Kingdom market. After EA Sports Active managed to take Wii Fit down from its top position, Fight Night Round 4 battled its way to the top position on its first week on sale.The game is the follow-up to a very good title, Fight Night Rou... |
2 July 2009
04:12 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the big, ugly problems of the videogame industry and it mostly affects PC game releases. So, you would think that with the launch of one of the most anticipated PC-only games of the year, Electronic Arts would make sure to limit piracy. Still, The Sims 3, which we have reviewed, got pirated quite a l... |
27 June 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts surely has high hopes for The Sims 3. After all, the series has broken sales records after sales records and the new game can be seen as being a platform on which Electronic Arts can continue to deliver content for quite a few years.Unfortunately, the initial performance of the title does not seem to ... |
25 June 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Piracy is all around us these days, ranging from software to video games or movies. But one of the areas most affected by it is PC gaming, where a lot of users tend to pirate their favorite titles in order to escape the ordeal of DRM software, like the infamous SecuROM, or to try it out with full features before deci... |
23 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a couple of hard quarters, posting losses and even making some analysts say that the publisher might be ripe for a take over offer coming from a big media firm interested in getting involved in the videogaming business.But the company says that the restructuring process set to make it profitab... |
18 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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The videogame chart in the United Kingdom might just have found its long term king, as The Sims 3 from Electronic Arts has managed to hold on to the top spot in the face of quite a strong challenge from Activision's Prototype.Of course, The Sims 3 has a wider appeal than Prototype. After all, the Sims series has... |
18 June 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important news in the gaming industry from the last seven days. It has been a pretty busy week, as E3 passed and companies are still trying to make their ideas heard by the average gamer. Without further ado, here's this editio... |
13 June 2009
08:11 GMT |
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There are a few certain things in life, like death and taxes. And, if you are a gamer, there's a third certainty: slap a The Sims label on a content disk and it will sell like crazy. The series has sold over 100 million copies (all products combined) and The Sims 2 got more expansion packs than I can count or re... |
12 June 2009
09:01 GMT |
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The Sims 3 is set to be huge. On its first day on sales, the Electronic Arts and Maxis made life simulator managed to go to the top of the United Kingdom videogame chart, displacing UFC 2009: Undisputed, the THQ made fighting game.THQ must be a little upset that Red Faction: Guerrilla, its open world shooter set on M... |
11 June 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has a lot of best-selling franchises, with the likes of Need for Speed or its famed sports series, Madden or FIFA. But none of them have a longer-lasting appeal and the opportunity to generate further income through add-ons like its Sims franchise. In further testimony to the popularity that the life... |
11 June 2009
02:17 GMT |
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Yesterday, Mac and PC gamers could finally buy The Sims 3, the much anticipated third installment in the popular Sims franchise from Electronic Arts. Many are likely to have documented themselves on the game's requirements ahead of its release, but for those who haven't, the complete system requirements for... |
3 June 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced the release of The Sims 3, the latest incarnation of the popular life simulation game series. The title adds new twists to the popular life sim gameplay style with customizable personalities, goal-oriented gameplay, movie creation and an online community. On the Mac side, The Sims 3 requ... |
2 June 2009
11:07 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, the roundup of all the most important news from the gaming industry that unfolded in the last seven days. This week was a pretty interesting one, as it is leading up to the start of the E3 conference, so companies were working overtime to reveal some detail... |
30 May 2009
06:21 GMT |
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With the release date more than a week away, The Sims 3, the biggest game that Electronic Arts will release this summer, has been pirated by more than 100,000 people. The most recent estimates show that close to 200,000 have used or are using file sharing sites to get the pirated version of the videogame before it ar... |
29 May 2009
05:05 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Apple's retail stores are the place to be for Sims fans this time around. Visitors can get a hands-on with the latest incarnation of the popular simulation game series, and test the “Create A Sim” feature or sample the “Create A Style” feature that lets them edit... |
29 May 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts was once considered the biggest videogame publisher in the world. Many saw it as a soulless entity focused on squeezing money out of sequels and as opposed to innovation. Now, the above description could be more suited to the new behemoth in town, Activision Blizzard, and Electronic Arts could even be... |
28 May 2009
17:31 GMT |
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The gaming industry hasn't been on the receiving end of a lot of publicity lately, largely because most gatherings and conventions were held behind closed doors or only for accredited journalists. Now, with the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) starting next week, average gamers will once again have the chance ... |
28 May 2009
02:58 GMT |
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The folks at Worthplaying have posted new screenshots as well as a new trailer from The Sims 3, Electronic Arts' latest iteration of the popular life-simulation series. The Sims 3 will be different and captivating in many ways, according to the title's makers, thanks to the ability to customize personalitie... |
26 May 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Electronic Arts will be in quite an interesting position in the coming weeks, as The Sims 3 is now said to be gold, which means that no more changes are made to the code and that the game is not being multiplied so that people can get their hands on a copy when the official release date of June 2 arrives. The publish... |
11 May 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Apple has posted an announcement on the front page of its online store, encouraging Mac owners to secure a copy of The Sims 3 for themselves ahead of the game's official release. Both the Mac and the PC versions of EA's highly anticipated life-sim will be available on June 2, for $39.95. “The freedom... |
7 May 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is saying that the online component of The Sims 3, which is set to be released in early June, is set to change the way people play the series, which has until now seen sales of more than 100 million units.The biggest new feature of Sims 3, when it comes to its online presence, is the Game Launcher, wh... |
6 May 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Gametreeonline has confirmed that EA's latest Sims game, The Sims 3 for Mac, is now available for pre-order. The online portal is accepting pre-orders for the simulation game that adds a few twists to the genre, such as customizable personalities, goal-oriented gameplay, movie creation and editing, and an online... |
9 April 2009
10:47 GMT |
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It seems that The Sims 3, the life simulation game that will arrive at the beginning of June for the PC, will not be using any Digital Rights Management. The announcement was made by Rod Humble, the executive producer on the Sims series.Writing on the official website that Electronic Arts has dedicated to the game, H... |
27 March 2009
19:31 GMT |
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Tropico was one of the most interesting titles of 2001. The premise of the game was so outlandish and yet so attractive that players sank a lot of hours developing the tropical paradise. The first game in the series is definitely better than the second; thus, the news that Kalypso Media is doing a third game, based o... |
9 March 2009
07:52 GMT |
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It's nice to see a breath of fresh air in the otherwise pretty stale PC sales chart. The NPD Group has just released the data for the United States for the week spanning from February 15 to 21 and it seems that, for the first time in quite a while, World of Warcraft, the MMO created by Blizzard, is not the best ... |
3 March 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Where to start? In the past week, Electronic Arts unleashed a virtual barrage of videogame-related news, mostly regarding upcoming releases, while I signed up for the Dawn of War II beta and posted one article each day about my experience with it.Monday started off with the unveiling of the Achievement list for Stree... |
7 February 2009
08:21 GMT |
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It seems that fans of simulated life will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on The Sims 3, which just might be the most anticipated title coming from Electronic Arts this year. The publisher is saying that the process of reevaluation has begun and a new release date will only be announced when the compa... |
27 January 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Who thought that the first week (OK, “work week”) of gaming reporting for 2009 would be so filled with announcements, reveals and, well, news? If this is a sneak peek of how 2009 will be, then we're going to have a really interesting and cool year. So, here at Softpedia, we're beginning a weekly... |
10 January 2009
08:01 GMT |
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You probably know that gaming magazine PC Gamer UK has a huge Sims 3 feature this month and it will soon be available on the market. However, since many people would love to hear these details and they probably have no way to buy the magazine, computerandvideogames.com decided to give everybody a small preview on wha... |
12 March 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Considered one of the most successful games in the world and considered by many the World of Warcraft of offline play, The Sims is definitely the game that got the most sequels or expansions in the world and history of gaming. The Sims 2, for example, got no less than 7 expansion packs since its launch in 2004 - and ... |
6 March 2008
04:23 GMT |
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