The Sims 3 Features

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• Older and Wiser: How The Sims Has Evolved
• 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.

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• UK Gaming Student Experiments with The Sims 3
• 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.

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• omgRPG @ GDC 2009: A new Zelda, RPGs at the GDC Awards, and the Sims RPG
• omgRPG details their adventures on day three of GDC. In this edition: The announcement all RPG fans were waiting for, unexpected RPG acclaim at the GDC awards, and the realization that there is now a Sims RPG.

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• A Sims 3 hands-on preview ("We have to move past peeing," says EA)
• 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.

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• Delays - Sims 3 and Godfather 2
• 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.

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• CES 2009: The Sims 3 Demo.
• The Sims 3 takes everything you loved about The Sims 2 and improves everything you hate.