The Sims 3

News

Katy Perry Will Make Your Sim’s Teenage Dreams Come True

6:30AM January 18, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel like you wish you could just, I don’t know, deck out your Sims sim in Katy Perry gear, start a sim-music career and go on tour? More »


PC

The Sims Generations Lets You Hire Strippers And Go Through A Mid Life Crisis

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3:00PM May 19, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Alright. I must have missed the memo – when did The Sims stop being about cleaning up your babies poo poo, or ‘making whoopee’, and start being about hiring strippers and awesome mid-life crisis’? More »


PC

The Royal Wedding Is Much More Entertaining In The Sims 3

3:00AM April 22, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The royal wedding between Prince William and his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton on April 29 will be a lavish spectacle of celebrity and ceremony, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that will be remembered for decades to come. That doesn’t mean it will be more entertaining than the Sims 3 version. More »


PC

Live Virtual Life To The Fullest With The Sims 3 Generations

5:20AM April 6, 2011 | Mike Fahey

EA Play adds life to The Sims 3 this (northern) spring with the Generations Expansion pack, letting players explore the stages of virtual life on a much deeper level than ever before. More »


Nintendo

The Sims 3 = Man Robbing Your House While You Have Sex

7:00AM March 23, 2011 | StephenTotilo

Every game on the Nintendo 3DS has some sort of rotating icon that appears on the system’s home menu. Submarine game Steel Diver features a rotating sub. Ridge Racer has a car. These things epitomise their games. More »


In Real Life

Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?

7:20AM February 19, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids. More »


PC

A Video Game Dream House, Built Before Your Eyes In Hyper-Speed

7:00AM February 3, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Most 18-minute videos on YouTube are dreadfully boring, but Curtis Paradis, avid Sims 3 user, puts on a stellar show speed-building the most elaborate house I’ve ever seen in a video game. More »


At Least The Sims 3 Vampires Don’t Sparkle

2:40AM October 15, 2010 | Mike Fahey

The Vampires introduced in The Sims 3: Late Night don’t want to fall in love with one-dimensional teenage girls. They just want to suck their blood. More »


8 Windows Phone 7 Games In Action

8:00AM October 12, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

The $US200 Windows Phone 7 telephones launching on November 8 will be a new portable gaming option, the first one compatible with aspects of Xbox Live. Here are eight of the “launch wave” titles. Should Nintendo, Apple and Sony quake? More »


News

EA Readies The Sims 3 And More For Windows Phone 7

2:00AM October 12, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Continuing its tradition of making a splash whenever a new gaming platform launches, EA is gearing up for the Windows Phone 7 launch with a suite of titles, including The Sims 3. More »