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  • Release Date: Jun. 2, 2009
  • Publisher: EA Games
  • Developer: EA Redwood Shores
  • Platform(s): PC 3DS Xbox 360 Wii PS3 DS
  • Genre: Simulation
  • ESRB Rating: Teen

The Sims 3 Features

  • Married with Sims
  • Jun 07, 2010
  • We take an intimate look at the upcoming console-exclusive version of The Sims 3, which is headed for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS with Tim LeTourneau, general manager of The Sims Studio.
  • Older and Wiser: How The Sims Has Evolved
  • Feb 04, 2010
  • EA's popular life-simulating video game franchise, The Sims, turns 10 this week. Over the past decade, The Sims experience has undergone a lot of changes, and not just in gameplay enhancements. From the way the series deals with death and sex to the way it handles Chinese culture, GamePro's Sims-expert AJ Glasser talks us through 10 ways The Sims has evolved in 10 years.
  • UK Gaming Student Experiments with The Sims 3
  • Jun 27, 2009
  • A UK game design student decides to recreate the poverty challenge in The Sims 3 and re-account his experience in a heartfelt blog about a homeless father-daughter family.
  • A Sims 3 hands-on preview ("We have to move past peeing," says EA)
  • Feb 26, 2009
  • Monday I was able to go down to the Redwood EA offices to get my first hands-on demo of the new Sims 3 game. There was so much to see and so much to do in the game that it made my head spin - but in a good way. The jump from the first Sims game to Sims 2 was not as big or as jaw-dropping as the jump from Sims 2 to Sims 3. What I saw at EA made me even more excited for its June release date.
  • Delays - Sims 3 and Godfather 2
  • Feb 03, 2009
  • Both the EA games the Sims 3 and Godfather 2 had significant delays announced today. The Sims 3 was originally slated for February 20th but that has been changed to a June 2nd release date. The Godfather 2 was scheduled for later this month as well, but has now been given a release time frame of between April and June of this year.