Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. And for the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces social features, including Simport, an all-new feature that lets you send your Sims to a friend’s game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend’s venue in front of your friend’s Sims! You will also be able to post messages and screenshots via an all-new in-game social wall.

The Sims 3 Showtime Features

• Your Sims can live the dream as Singers, Performers, Magicians, and DJs. Watch them rise to fame—or go down in flames as they perform for other Sims.
• All-new social features: chat with friends, post to their walls, give status updates, and create friends lists.
• Send your Sims to a friend’s game and have your friend’s Sim come to your game with the new Simport feature!
• Create your own venue! Build a swanky concert hall, a massive stadium, or an indie club. How the stage is built will influence your Sims’ performance and career progression.

Get a bonus venue and stage for your Sims to perform in the Sims 3 Showtime Limited Edition!

What’s new in The Sims 3 Generations

With Sims 3 Generations expansion pack, you get to play through various stages of life as we know it. There is nothing particularly new about the inner workings of the game play, but the different stages of life can offer up some very interesting choices.

The Sims 3 Generations, start off as a child.

The Sims 3 Generations is where the newer elements of game play are found. The world is much like a child would see it. Fun and imaginative. Do what kids do, play and have fun doing it. Hang out in a tree house or play with a chemistry set. These sets can introduce game play elements later in the game.

Have you ever wanted to be a teenager again?

The next stage of life that you will get to play in, are the teenage years. Things can get really interesting during the teenage years. Things like pranks and rebellion make for some interesting game play moments. Nothing has been left out.

Remember how grades affected what you could do when you were a teenager? Grades can have a positive or a negative effect in The Sims 3 Generations. Have some fun, and throw a huge party while the parents are out of town. For all of the good times that you had when you were a kid, there are an equal amount of bad times.

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Jump into your adult shoes.

The Sims 3 Generations does offer up very little new things to play with in the adult world. Relationships and dating are in there, but they don’t really have that much of an impact on the way the game changes as you play it. Sure, you can have wild bachelor or bachelorette parties and live it up, you can even get married, but there is nothing really new about the adult stage of life. There is a new reputation element to the game. This tool will help regulate your Sims during parties and other social gatherings. If you fool around too much people will start to notice. Ooh! The drama!

Step into the golden years.

In the golden old years, you get to step back and re-live your Sim life through memories that were automatically captured by the game, and ones that you can capture yourself using the game’s camcorder function. This function lets you record special events that happen during your Sim life. Just like real life, you can access these recorded moments at any time during the golden years. The moments that were automatically captured are not always that great, and sometimes they are just silly.

The Sims 3 Generations offers up quite a bit to explore, but it can be difficult to find it all. It would have been really nice if there was a new town to explore, but there is not. This is one of the game’s biggest short comings. The Sims 3 Generations is fun, but it just does not seem worth the higher price tag that comes with it.

The Sims 3 Generations Features.

The Sims 3 Town Life Stuff Features

• Pre-Built Venues and Lots—Give your Sims’ town a new look with spectacular ready-to-go venues and community lots—or construct your own cool setting.
• Fit and Fresh—Work out with the latest high-tech gym equipment, then clean your sweaty gym clothes in the new state-of-the-art washer and dryer set.
• Time to Unwind—Kids will love the new Sunny Bungalow jungle gym, slide, and sandbox, while grown-ups can play chess by the new fountain.
• Study Time or Story Time—Update the library with an elegant array of accessories, build your own study, or create cubicles with specialized sectional seating.
• New Casual Outfits and Hairstyles—Clothes for running errands, hanging out, or working out—there are lots of styles for all your Sims’ fashion needs.

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The Sims 3 Town Life Stuff Pack Requires The Sims 3 to play.

The Sims Social brings all the freedom, fun, and creativity of The Sims to Facebook!

Create customized Sims with their own unique characters, ambitions, and friends. Your Sim’s friends—and enemies—are your real friends and the deeper your relationships, the further you get in the game! Build your Sim a perfect home and fulfill their wishes to live out their dreams. Control every aspect of their social life, make friends or fight, love or betray, play nice or be mean, share a first kiss or woohoo!

Play with life in a whole new way—with your real friends, for free!

Play The Sims Social now on Facebook!

Sims Social Features:

• Playing with life has never been so easy and fun! Enjoy accessible gameplay and in-depth customization paired with social features that let you play for free with all your friends.
• Customize your Sim. Determine your Sim’s personality traits, pick from a huge variety of physical features, and choose their clothing from loads of styles.
• Create the perfect house. A country shack, a luxurious loft, or a bachelor pad—build your Sim’s home and discover the endless interactions your Sim can have with exciting items!
• Build your Sim’s social circles. Sims need social lives to be happy. Be the perfect friend and help out your neighbors out, or indulge your dark side, sparking rivalries and becoming somebody’s archenemy! If you are looking for romance, maneuver your Sim into relationships with your friends’ Sims and experience the bliss of a first kiss, the heartache of an unexpected breakup, and the joy of making up.
• Live their dreams. Does your Sim want to be an adored celebrity, a tycoon with swimming pools of money, or a hero devoted to helping friends? Embark on fun quests to help your Sim achieve their dreams. Or follow your own whims and explore the endless possibilities!
• Life goes on. Whether you’re online or not, life goes on in Littlehaven. Check in regularly to see what your Sim has been up to, who’s visited or left you a gift, and how everything—from your relationships to your electronic gadgets —is doing!

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The Sims 3 Pets for PC and Mac

Create perfect – or imperfect – pets for your Sims, from fierce guard dogs to destructive kittens to trusty horses and more as you determine not only how your Sims’ pets look but their personality traits as well. With a variety of new activities and social interactions, take control of these pets and experience the world from their perspective. Treat your Sims and their pets to an exclusive venue filled with unique objects found only in the Limited Edition. Give your Sims a new member of their household and discover all-new ways to play with life!

The Sims 3 Pets Features

• More pets mean more fun! Create a wide variety of unique dogs, cats, and – for the first time ever – horses! Think your Sim has what it takes to tame a wild horse?
• Be the Pet – Wield control of your Sim’s pet to chase, dig, tackle and more. Be the perfect companion or wreck havoc on your Sims!
• Pets have their own traits! – From intelligent, brave, and friendly to hydrophobic, skittish, and clueless to gentle, fast, and agile, determine the personality of your Sims’ pets.
• Pets can learn skills – Cats and dogs can learn to hunt, dogs can learn to locate collectibles and fetch your Sims a date, and horses can learn racing and jumping.
• Sims can take their pets outside! – Take Spike to the park, bring Whiskers to the library, or ride Star to the new Equestrian Center.
• Exclusive Limited Edition content! – Only in The Sims 3 Pets Limited Edition will you find a pet store filled with one-of-a-kind objects.

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The Sims 3 Pets enables anyone to play as they want, whether it’s the builder who prefers to customize their Sim to match their pet, the achiever who tries to gain the most Lifetime Rewards, the experimenter who wants to wreak havoc in their Sims lives or the storyteller who captures and shares their stories with their friends. For the first time in franchise history, players will be able to fully control their pets and determine their personality traits.

Unique to the console experience, players will use their pets to help their Sims uncover and solve mysteries around town. Exclusively for the Xbox 360, players with Kinect™ can issue voice commands to their pets and Sims. The Nintendo 3DS takes advantage of the hardware’s built-in pedometer that tracks players’ real life movements. On the PC/Mac version, players now have the opportunity to adopt horses where they’ll be able to use their horse as a form of transportation to get around town and also raise and train them to do activities like race and jump hurdles. In The Sims 3 Pets, players will be able to create, control and play with life with their pets.

The Sims 3 Pets Key Features

• Fully controllable pets just like your Sims. Pets are playable, so you can direct your Sims pet to hunt, climb, dig and more. Who knows what kind of mischief they might get into!

• Give your pets personality traits! For the first time in The Sims franchise history, The Sims 3 Pets gives your pet traits which allow you to create truly unique animals with personalities all of their own!

• The Sims 3 Pets gives you new pet choices! Sims can adopt specific breeds of cats and big and small dogs on all platforms.

• With the Sims 3 Pets, Sims can take their pets into Town! Take your dog to the park or bring your cat to the library.

Electronic Arts also explained what is unique to the Xbox 360 experience: “for the first time in The Sims’ history players with Kinect™ can take control of their pets and Sims by voice commands, like telling their Sim to be romantic or feeding their dog.”

The Sims 3 Pets for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

(The Sims 3 Pets Includes online capabilities)

Create perfect – or imperfect – pets for your Sims, from loyal dogs to daring kitties, as you determine their looks and personality traits. Then take control of these pets and experience the world from their perspective. Enjoy a little mischief by destroying furniture or impress others by mastering new skills like hunting. Lead your Sims on adventures, like uncovering relics and solving mysteries. In the Limited Edition* you’ll also get 10 exclusive, unique breeds, including tiger dogs and skunk cats. Choose how pets can enrich or mess with your Sims’ lives and discover a whole new way to play with life!

• More pets mean more fun – With a variety of breeds and creative ways to customize your Sims’ pets, create unique dogs and cats with limitless possibilities!
• Be the pet – Wield control of your pets to chase, dig, tackle, and more. Be the perfect companion or wreak havoc on your Sims!
• Embark on adventures – Sims can explore the history of town, using their pets to sniff out treasures, uncover mysteries, catch rare collectible pets, and maybe even seen ghosts.
• Pets have their own traits – From intelligent, friendly, and proud to playful, adventurous, and aggressive, determine the personalities of your Sims’ pets.
• Pets can learn skills – Cats and dogs can learn to hunt, dogs can learn to locate collectibles and fetch your Sims a date. With career opportunities, your Sims’ pets can even work their way up the chain to become the ultimate criminal mastermind.

Exclusively on XBOX 360 – Use Kinect™ for Xbox 360® to direct your Sims and their pets using voice commands. Tell Spike to sit, send Billy to the bathroom, or get Mary to make breakfast.

The Sims 3 Pets for the Nintendo 3DS

Create pets with minds of their own, choosing from more than 40 big and small dog breeds and more than 20 cat breeds. Customize the pets’ unique looks then assign their distinctive personalities. With the power to be the pet, you decide what skills to develop and wishes to fulfill. Take control of it to see what kind of adventures unfold – in 3D! With new Karma Powers to treat or torture your Sims and additional unlockable pets, your Sim’s life is so much more fun with pets!

• More pets mean more fun – With a variety of breeds and creative ways to customize your Sims’ pets, create unique dogs and cats with limitless possibilities!
• Be the pet – Wield control of your Sim’s pet to chase, dig, and more. Be the perfect companion or wreck havoc on your Sims!
• Pets have their own traits – From lazy, piggy, and skittish to destructive, playful, and proud, determine the personality of your Sims’ pets.
• Pets can learn skills – Cats and dogs can learn to hunt and do tricks. Without the help of a Sim, your Sim’s pet can even learn how to scavenge for its own food.
• New Karma Powers! – With Play Coins, purchase a range of Karma Powers to enrich or mess with your Sims’ lives.
• Trade Sims with your friends! – Use Nintendo StreetPass to trade your Sims and their pets with your 3DS friends.

Through it players can dramatically expand The Sims 3 gameplay with a generationally oriented focus on new activities, celebrations, and opportunities for drama and creativity. With this new expansion players’ Sims can experience the gameworld from multiple perspectives, including childhood, the teenage years, young adult to adult, and the senior years. Each of these has a different general focus that players can of course alter as they see fit.

The Sims 3 Generations: Experience the Life of Sims Across the Generations

Enjoy a whole spectrum of rich life experiences with your Sims. Start off in the imagination-fuelled world of childhood and embrace the drama of the teen years. Experience the complicated realities of adult life, then reap the benefits of growing up in each life stage. A wealth of new options and activities makes your Sims’ lives more meaningful than ever before, whatever their ages. With new celebrations, dramatic life events, and all-new ways for your Sims to express their creativity, The Sims 3 Generations lets your Sims live life to the fullest.

About The Sims 3

The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes – design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims’ destinies and make their wishes come true.

The Sims 3 Generations Minimum System Requirements (Requires The Sims 3 for play)
Windows XP (SP2) / Vista (SP1) / Windows 7

CPU – XP: 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent; Windows Vista and Windows 7: 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
RAM – XP: 1 GB; Vista and Windows 7: 1.5 GB (NVIDIA ION computer require at least 2 GB)
Disc Drive – DVD drive
Hard Drive – At least 2.5 GB of hard drive space with at lest 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games (9.6 GB required if installing with The Sims 3)
Video Card – 128 MB video card with pixel shader 2.0 support (see www.thesims.com for the full video card support information)

Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher

CPU – Intel Core Duo processor
RAM – 2 GB RAM
Disc Drive – DVD drive
Hard Drive – At least 2 GB of hard drive space with at lest 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games (9.6 GB required if installing with The Sims 3)
Video Card – ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100* (see www.thesims.com for the full video card support information)
Input – Keyboard, mouse

* This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

The Sims 3 Generations Key Features

New Activities – Sims of every age can have fun. Kids can attend ballet class, hang out in tree houses, or have fun on new playground equipment. Teens can host raging parties, pull pranks, and attend school dances. Adults can suffer mid-life crises, and those who engage in extramarital affairs will face the rumor mill. And so much more.
New Celebrations – Whether it’s a hilariously out-of-control bachelorette party, an all-teen party while the parents are out, or a high school graduation, new ways to celebrate life will make every age more fun.
New Drama Unfolds – From snubbing school peers to being the focus of neighborhood gossip and even bachelor party hi-jinks, hilarity will ensue when life goes off the beaten path.
Find News Ways to be Creative – Sims will be able to tinker with chemistry sets, play in forts, and record with video cameras. Additionally, the new memories system allows players to build a scrapbook and post their memories on Facebook for all of their friends to see.
WIN/Mac Compatibility – This The Sims 3 expansion pack is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh operating systems

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Personally, I love this Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff. Yes of course it is a bit expensive for what it is, but you should be used to it by now, this is how EA works.

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff is a collection of outdoor entertaining related items for use by your Sims in The Sims 3 and the various The Sims 3 expansion packs. Outdoor Living is the fourth stuff pack released for The Sims 3 and contains a wealth of items rooted in two new styles: “Garden Terrace” and “Sunset on the Veranda.” Items cover a wide gamut ranging from outdoor furniture, fire pits, cooking equipment, hot tubs and even new attire.

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff Two New Styles

For the first time ever, your Sims can get the best in outdoor luxury for their homes in The Sims 3 Outdoor Living stuff. This all-new stuff pack contains two new styles: “Garden Terrace,” featuring elegant wrought-iron pieces and “Sunset on the Veranda,” which embraces the warmth of outdoors. Whether your Sims are decorating the perfect patio, setting the mood with a cool new hot tub, or firing up a state-of-the-art grill for the ultimate BBQ, The Sims 3 Outdoor Living provides just boost they will need to get the party started.

Two all-new item styles for all manner of outdoor entertaining.

What is a Stuff Pack?

Stuff packs are add-on content for The Sims games that are designed to provide additional items for use in the base game. Stuff packs require the base game and/or expansion packs for the base game, in this case The Sims 3, for use.

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff Key Game Features

• Build the perfect al fresco setting for your Sims with stylish furnishings, outdoor electronics, and cozy fire pits and fireplaces
• Give your Sims several uniquely styled hot tubs where they can relax with friends or get romantic with someone special
• Turn up the heat with an all-new built-in countertop grill as part of your Sims’ outdoor kitchen and take their cooking to a whole new level
• Choose from two new styles: “Garden Terrace” featuring elegant wrought-iron pieces; while “Sunset on the Veranda” embraces the warmth of outdoors
• Dress your Sims in an array of chic but casual attire for a great day in the sun or a relaxing evening under the stars

Give your Sims the best in outdoor luxury for their homes and chic new fashions for their wardrobes, with all the new items found in The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff.

You can get the Sims 3 Outdoor Living stuff pack here.

Sims 3 Late Night Features

Hang out at the hottest spots in town, from dive bars to dance clubs to chic lounges, complete with bouncers.
Gain fame and fortune as a member of a music band, mixologist, director, or local celebrity.
Explore certain areas of town in the thick of the night and you may be initiated into the dark life of a vampire.
Gain access to exclusive areas and enjoy celebrity perks like penthouse living, luxury hot tubs and cars.

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The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay

LAND HO! DISCOVER A WHOLE NEW WORLD RIPE FOR INHABITING WITH THE SIMS 3 BARNACLE BAY

Immersive Gameplay Experience Filled with New Content Offerings in The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay Available This Autumn for PC/MAC

Ahoy Matey! The SimsTM 3 Barnacle Bay, a downloadable, all-new themed world to explore, will be available this fall exclusively at The Sims 3 Store using SimPoints. Featuring all-new content like objects, Create-a-Sim assets, Sims characters, houses, and more, The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay could be your Sims’ new home or a fun holiday spot this autumn.

Lower the Jolly Roger, set anchor, and discover the lore and riches of Barnacle Bay. Over the horizon nestled in the Simuyan Sea, Barnacle Bay boasts vibrant beaches, campgrounds, and a new downtown emulating urban life. Venture to locations like the abandoned piers of Founder’s Beach, the ancient relics of Goldbeard Galleon Gallery, mysterious Pirate’s Hideaway. Take a load off at Hogan’s Deep Sea Diner or The Wanderer’s Watering Hole. Meet new townie Sims and maybe even run into a ghost or two while uncovering the town’s hidden secrets. Find new lots that are ready for moving in or just exploring. Enrich your Sims and their lives in all-new ways with nearly two dozen exclusive items only available in The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay.

For more information on The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay, please visit www.thesims3.com
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Here are some of The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay features as stated in an intereview by IGN:

IGN: What are the new playable character(s) in this expansion?

EA: There are over 50 new world Sims living in Barnacle Bay, most of which are brand new characters, but you might recognize some familiar faces. There are quite a range of characters from Dude LaMer, a directionless surfer bum that can’t get a second date with a girl, to Rose Rome, an elderly gypsy that has been seen rummaging through trash. You might even come across a few pirates while exploring the island.

IGN: What are some of the new NPC Sims that are in Barnacle Bay?

EA: Barnacle Bay is full of some colorful NPCs. My favorite is Roni Pepper (ha!), a slobby, scruffy pizza delivery guy with no sense of fashion. And Brian Adoyo, a scientist that uses food as examples when explaining scientific theories. There are over 25 new NPCs to create your own story with.

IGN: Will Simlish sound different for Pirate characters?

EA: One of the great things about Create-a-Sim is that you can create a custom voice for any character. You can also create your very own pirate characters using the pirate-themed clothing and accessories that are included with Barnacle Bay. There is also Buccaneer’s Bounty, a pirate-themed clothing and object set available in The Sims 3 Store. You can make your Swashbuckler Sims sound and look however you want!

IGN: What kind of loot will you be able to find?

EA: There are hidden insects, fish, gem and mineral spawners all over the island for explorer Sims to find. There is even a secret Pirate’s Hideaway, but I’m not telling you where it is. You have to explore the island to find it yourself.

IGN: What sort of new houses will be available? Is it possible to live in a pirate ship?

EA: Sims can eat in a pirate ship! Hogan’s Deep Sea Diner is a nautical diner where Sims can grab a bite to eat with friends. Players can also build custom pirate-themed houses with the new objects that are included in Barnacle Bay, such as porthole doors and windows, wharf and stone fences, and more!

IGN: Will you be able to sail around the Bay and swim below the water to discover sunken treasures and ships?

EA: No, there will be no sailing ships or taking a dip in the ocean.

IGN: What sort of pirate-themed Sim deaths will you be able to re-create? Can you make them walk the plank?

EA: There are no new deaths in Barnacle Bay. However, you can always starrrrrrrrve your newly created pirates.

IGN: Will things like peg legs, eye patches and hook hands become available in the Sim creator?

EA: There are 7 new pirate-themed clothing and accessory items included with Barnacle Bay. You can dress any Sim you create as a pirate! These new assets include hats, boots and pirate clothing.

IGN: Can you challenge other Sims to sword fights?

EA: Not exactly, but I’m sure you will see plenty of bar fights in the Wanderer’s Watering Hole, a new pub located in downtown Barnacle Bay.

IGN: Can we expect any surprise ninja attacks?

EA: There will be no surprise ninja attacks (and we couldn’t tell you about them because then they wouldn’t be surprises).

As usual, everytime something new comes with the Sims, controversy is bound to follow because it is said to cost 1650 simpoints ($17 approx.) which is a little less than half the price of an expansion pack and sounds more interesting than a stuff pack.

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In Sims 3 Ambitions, you now have the ability to become involved in new careers, such as becoming a rock star or firefighter. In your virtual career, the better your Sim performs the farther they will get in their career. As a firefighter your Sim will have to get his hands dirty saving lives and putting out apartment fires by using the tilt function on your iPhone. Do a good job and you’ll be promoted to a higher position in your career. Which will certainly be beneficial when the unexpected happens in your Sim’s life.

The most requested feature is finally here… For the first time on iPhone & iPod touch, Sims can have babies! Just like in real life, the unexpected can happen at any time in the Sims world. Especially if your Sim is getting, uh, friendly with his/her Sim buddy. Before you know it, your pleasant little Sim life is disturbed by the presence of a baby that needs your undivided attention. It is up to you to be able to feed and nurture the baby while still attending to your career and life. Are you up to the challenge?

With so much depth in the way of careers and starting a family, Sims 3 Ambitions is a rare game that succeeds in realizing its own ambitions. A worthy addition to your iPhone video game collection.

Sims 3 Ambitions is rated 12+ for the following:
* Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
* Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
* Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
* Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Get Sims 3 Ambitions through the App Store.