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The developers at Electronic Arts who are working on the upcoming Showtime expansion for The Sims 3 have released another trailer for the game, which is different because it features two of the main designers working on the game talking about the new content.
Senior designer Aaron Conners and associate producer Brit... |
3 February 2012
02:27 GMT |
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The retail calendar is swinging into gear and that means that some rather high profile titles are being released during this week.
Maybe the most important of them is Final Fantasy XIII-2, which has been out for some time in Japan, a game that Square Enix needs to do well in Europe and in North America in order to h... |
30 January 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts and music superstar Katy Perry have announced that they are starting a long term relationship which will see a number of Sims projects benefit from the presence and the music of the singer.The first of these will be the Showtime expansion for The Sims 3, which is set to get a Katy... |
18 January 2012
05:37 GMT |
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The new Sims expansion Showtime will focus on entertainment professions and the developers at Electronic Arts have released information about how the magician and the singer will stand out from the crowd.When the player chooses to become a magician he first needs to hit the street in order to perform magic tricks for... |
6 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it is preparing a new expansion for The Sims 3, called Showtime, which will allow gamers to try out a number of new careers while also getting a rich social layer that allows them to stay connected with in-game friends.The new careers are all entertainment relat... |
7 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has put out another seven screenshots of The Sims 3 Pets for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony.The game looks pretty good and will allow players to experience a whole new set of adventures built around their pet animals.EA has also released the new Karma ... |
11 October 2011
08:36 GMT |
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The Sims Studio inside video game publisher has announced that it will be launching The Sims 3 Town Life Stuff package for its social interaction powered video game on July 26, allowing players to get more options linked to day-to-day play and more activities to do around town.EA says that one of the new public optio... |
17 June 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts, through its new Play label, has announced that it is planning to launch a new expansion for The Sims 3, called Generations, which aims to give players a chance to act out, in quick succession, the most important moments in the lives of simulated characters.
The new expansion i... |
6 April 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Test Drive Unlimited 2 is a complicated game, aiming to deliver some pretty tough racing events while also schooling the player in the finer points of social interaction and wealth accumulation, with the beautiful Spanish island of Ibiza serving as the backdrop.And, after playing a few hours of it, it's hard to ... |
10 February 2011
19:51 GMT |
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The console version of hit PC and Mac game The Sims 3 has just received a few more details, this time concerning the pre-order bonuses that will be offered to those who reserve their copy before the title arrives at the end of October.After achieving impressive sales on the PC and Mac OS X platforms, The Sims 3 is no... |
23 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has announced the pre order bonuses that are available for those players who will get the upcoming console version of The Sims 3 from selected retailers including Amazon, Play.com, Game and the EA Store.The unlockable items include:- The “Get Lucky” Karma power, which makes sure ... |
21 September 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has officially announced the soundtrack that will accompany the launch of the Late Night expansion for The Sims 3, which is set to arrive on the PC and on the Mac and will be released on October 26.The Late Night pack is the third extra content package that the Maxis team and Electronic Arts is delive... |
8 September 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that a variety of well known artists will be contributing songs for the upcoming console version of The Sims 3, with all the tracks sung in the well known but little understood special language of the series.For the first time in its history a Sims title is arriving on the Xbox 360 from ... |
7 September 2010
17:31 GMT |
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EA Play has unveiled The Sims 3 Late Night expansion pack for an autumn release on the PC and Mac. This add-on revolves around giving the Sims a night life where they can participate in various parties or concerts and enjoy a cold beverage in bar after work. The Sims 3 Late Night will require a version of The Sims 3 ... |
21 July 2010
05:51 GMT |
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The Sims Studio and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that this fall will witness the launch of the Fast Lane Stuff pack for The Sims 3, which aims to deliver the thrills and danger associated with fast cars to the life simulation game. Eager fans can preorder the new content now on the EA Store and retail sto... |
1 July 2010
04:12 GMT |
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The EA Play label of publisher Electronic Arts has revealed that The Sims 3 is now officially headed to the newly announced Nintendo 3DS, the handheld set to deliver full three dimensional gaming on the move without the use of special glasses.The title should arrive at some point in 2011, joining the versions of the ... |
16 June 2010
18:41 GMT |
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With the second expansion pack for The Sims 3, called Ambitions, set to be launched today worldwide, Electronic Arts must be thinking about the future of its huge simulation franchise.And even though it might seem a bit counter intuitive, the publisher could be getting ready to move The Sims to some new historical er... |
2 June 2010
03:48 GMT |
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The EA Play division of publisher Electronic Arts has officially announced that The Sims 3 will be arriving on home gaming consoles and on handhelds during the fall of this year. The life simulation title will be ported to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Nintendo Wii and the DS family. A... |
28 April 2010
05:12 GMT |
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The Sims 3 appears to be on track to getting the same glut of expansions as its predecessor in the series. The EA Play Label has announced that it is developing and plans to release a new add-on, called Ambitions, which is scheduled to be launched for the PC in June 2010. The new content will require the initial Sims... |
5 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Electronic Arts was pretty busy yesterday as it announced that it would be publishing a wide array of high profile videogames in the coming 12 months while also showing signs that it was returning to a profit, albeit pretty slowly.The company is saying that in the final quarter of 2010, something it is talking about ... |
9 February 2010
05:22 GMT |
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The Sims franchise is ten years old now. The first The Sims title arrived on February 4 in 2000, and it took Electronic Arts four years to deliver The Sims 2 in September 2004. That game received a wide variety of add-ons and expansions, which generated a lot of money for Electronic Arts.In June 2009, The Sims 3 was ... |
8 February 2010
03:24 GMT |
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The NPD Group, as part of an end of year wrap up, has offered a list of the ten best selling PC videogames in the United States in 2009, showing that The Sims 3, created by the team at Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, sold better than World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the MMO expansion put out by... |
18 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, has officially announced that it expects to earn less money than provisioned for the financial year set to end on March 31 and that the overall losses it will take are also set to climb over initial estimates. The announcement prompted financial m... |
12 January 2010
03:43 GMT |
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PETA, who might actually be the best known animal rights group, mainly thanks for the shocking adds that it has released over the last few years, has awarded one of its early Proggy Awards to The Sims 3. The honor for Most Animal-Friendly Game 2009 is given for the way the life simulation videogame manages to show ho... |
5 January 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and its Sims development team are announcing that they have released a new add on for the game allowing those playing the title to customize their experience even more. The fresh Create a World Tool, which is still in beta stage, is free and allows gamers to actually make complete cities in which they... |
17 December 2009
04:42 GMT |
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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
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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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