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Twilight star Kellen Lutz picks up some The Sims 3 swag at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, where the game brought home Choice Video Game honors, as seen on Twilight News. More »
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The Sims 3 expands this fall with The Sims 3 Late Night Expansion pack, plunging your Sim into the active downtown nightlife, or letting them explore their darkest fantasies as a Sim vampire. More »
Looking for a virtual metropolis your Sim can par-tay down in? EA just announced the next expansion for The Sims 3, called the "Late Night Expansion." The add-on will include an "active downtown scene" where players can "become a local celebrity, member of a music band, mixologist, director, and more." You can also apparently become a vampire, but if the announcement trailer past the break is any indication, you'll just loiter around a lot of alleys. We imagine it's kinda like being a teenager ... forever.
The Sims 3: Late Night Expansion launches this fall.
Even though The Sims 3 is gearing up to give console gamers the chance to live vicariously through its virtual, incoherent inhabitants in October, it doesn't mean EA has ceased support for the PC version of the game. In fact, there's a new expansion coming this fall, titled "The Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff" pack.
This new content pack gives players the choice between four different lifestyle options: racing; intrigue; rockabilly; and classic luxury. Each option provides your Sim with custom furniture, outfits, and vehicles suited to the respective lifestyle choice -- there's even a garage for storing and/or pimping your rides. Suddenly, Xzibit's services don't seem so valuable.
If you want to pre-order the $20 add-on, head on over to the EA Store and have at it. In the meanwhile, feel free to swerve into our gallery below for some new screens.
#expansionism
The Sims 3 gets a quadruple dose of automotive lifestyle this fall in The Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff pack, showcasing cars and the people who love them. More »
The first news from EA's E3 presentation is out -- without anyone having to say a thing. The console version of The Sims 3 will launch on Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and DS on October 26, according to ... this banner!
We'd like to imagine that our Sims are learning the news of several new vacation spots in their own virtual, all-Simlish E3.
That unsavory proclamation is the first in a long series of deep, dark confessions made in the debut trailer, currently hosted on MTV, for the console versions of The Sims 3. Watch as ordinary people -- by which, of course, we mean paid, professional actors -- air out their dirty, in-game laundry.
We find the whole ordeal more than a little surprising. We've always conducted ourselves in the world of The Sims just as we do in real life -- that is to say, as fine, upstanding citizens. Not as murderers, thieves and unashamed hussies.
#clips
The second Sex in the City movie is in theaters today, but no one has to go see it, now that EA's Sims team summarized it for us using The Sims 3. More »
- create a Sim: customize clothes, body shape, voice, and unique personality traits
- build your dream home
- Sims live in a town with neighbors all around them
- Karma Powers allow players more control over their Sim, making for new and different stories
- help your Sim “get lucky,” bless them with “instant beauty” or curse them [...]
#update
The Sims 3 is scoring a free pattern tool this summer that will allow players to take a perfectly lovely Sim house and plaster the walls with the vilest images their twisted hearts' desire. More »
I don’t believe the Wii version will look quite this good, but it should match up rather nicely. It’s not like The Sims 3 is a powerhouse in the graphics department. That’s not what the series is about!
As promised, last year's best-selling PC franchise is finally coming to consoles, just in time for the holiday season. EA has announced that The Sims 3 is in development for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS, with all versions planned for fall releases. The console versions promise "all-new" features, like "Karma Powers" that let your Sim to "get lucky" or experience an "epic fail." In addition, the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions will include Facebook connectivity, so you can share Trophy and Achievement updates with friends.
The Wii version will be gifted with an exclusive beach town, featuring its own residents, careers and "lifetime wishes." The DS version will introduce a brand new "Story Mode," a first for a handheld Sims game, allowing players to go through a "complete life simulation."
"We're bringing players the best console and handheld game for The Sims franchise to date and are excited to offer a unique experience for all types of gamers on their platform of choice," Sam Player, Executive Producer at EA, stated in a press release. And there's good reason to be excited, too -- considering the franchise has already generated over $2.5 billion in revenue for EA, we can already hear EA's coffers quivering in anticipation.
#ingameadvertising
The inclusion of a free virtual version of Renault's electric Twizy Z.E Concept car in The Sims 3 should go great lengths towards helping increase player awareness of the Renault brand. More »
Are you rife with guilt over the damage your Sims' extravagant lifestyles have done to their nonexistent environment? Now you'll be able to reduce your simulated carbon footprint and decrease your dependence on the imaginary world's dwindling supply of e-fossil fuels, by driving an electric Renault Twizy Z.E Concept in-game.
The tie-up with Renault is part of the "Electric Vehicle Pack," a free Sims 3 download to be offered in EMEA countries, comprising the car and other environmentally conscious items like solar panels and windmills. Despite the fact that all cars are electric in the game (because they're inside your computer, which is electric), driving the tiny Renault and using the other items will noticeably improve your Sims' lives, by reducing their weekly bills.
