Kotaku: The Sims 3

Katy Perry Is Now Making Video Games

Kirk Hamilton — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:30:00 EST

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 »

The Royal Wedding Is Much More Entertaining In The Sims 3

Mike Fahey — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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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 »

Live Virtual Life To The Fullest With The Sims 3 Generations

Mike Fahey — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:20:00 EDT

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

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

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:00:00 EDT

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 epitomize their games. More »

Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?

Mike Fahey — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:20:00 EST

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 »

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

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:00:00 EST

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

Mike Fahey — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:40:00 EDT

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 »

Make Way DS, PSP and iPhone, Here Are 10 Windows Phone 7 Games In Action

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EDT

The $200 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~~ 10 of the "launch wave" titles. Should Nintendo, Apple and Sony quake? Update: Two games added. More »

EA Readies The Sims 3 And More For Windows Phone 7

Mike Fahey — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EDT

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 »

Even Vampire Teens Choose The Sims 3

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:40:00 EDT

Twilight star Kellan 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 »

The Sims 3 Late Night Adds Club Hopping Vampires

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:40:00 EDT

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 »

The Sims 3 Moves Into The Fast Lane This Fall

Mike Fahey — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:20:00 EDT

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 »

Sex And The Sim City

Mike Fahey — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:00:00 EDT

The second Sex and 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 »

Too Much Creative Freedom Coming To The Sims 3

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:40:00 EDT

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 »

Renault Delivers Interactive In-Game Advertising To The Sims 3

Mike Fahey — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:20:00 EDT

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 »

PC Sales Charts, From The Land Of The Boxed Copies

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:30:00 EDT

While the NPD Group has ceased providing weekly sales charts for the boxed-copy PC market in the US, it still hands out its monthly - and often hilarious - lists. Let's look at February's. More »

The Sims 3 Gets Sweet And Sultry For Valentine's Day

Mike Fahey — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:20:00 EST

Aw, isn't that adorable? That Sims couple is celebrating Valentine's Day together, enjoying a sweet little snuggle on the couch. Meanwhile, next door... More »

The Sims 3 Simming To A Console Near You

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:30:00 EST

The Sims 3 is headed to consoles. And handhelds. What's surprising here isn't the fact the game is making the move, but why it's taken so long. More »

The Once and Future Sim

Brian Crecente — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST

One hundred million copies sold, 36 magazine covers and 100 game critic awards: The Sims franchise continues to thrive ten years after its launch, basking in the uncommon flattery of having no real competition. More »

Happy 10th Anniversary Sims

Brian Crecente — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

On Jan. 31 2000 Electronic Arts open the floodgates to another one of Will Wright's off-kilter, but strangely addictive games. More »

And The World's Top-Selling PC Game Of 2009 Was...

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:00:00 EST

The Sims 3 wasn't just the biggest-selling game at US retail stores for 2009. It was also, according to publisher Electronic Arts, the biggest-selling PC game in the world. More »

Create Your Own Worlds In The Sims 3

Mike Fahey — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:40:00 EST

The Sims 3 allows you to create your own Sims, create your own home, and now you can create your own world, courtesy of The Sims 3 Create A World tool, a free download now available on TheSims3.com. More »

Would You Be A Pepper For EA DLC?

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:40:00 EST

Starting this week, specially marked 20 ounce bottles of Dr Pepper will contain codes good towards exclusive downloadable content for popular EA games, including The Sims 3, Spore, and Mass Effect 2. More »

PETA Deems The Sims 3 Most Animal-Friendly Game of '09

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals don't hand out many video game awards, but when they do, they're generally about games that favor eating vegetables and tofu over meat. PETA's choice game of 2009? The Sims 3. More »

The Sims 3: World Adventures Review: A Form Of Manifest Destiny

AJ Glasser — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST

Expansions are to The Sims series as pimples are to puberty: they're going to happen, so embrace them and try to avoid nasty pit scars. It's just part of growing up. More »

Happy Holidays From The Sims 3

Mike Fahey — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:20:00 EST

EA's Top 10 Reasons to Give The Sims 3 this Holiday video shows that its much easier to get away with arson, peeping, murder, and sleeping with your friends mom in The Sims 3. How festive! More »

EA Sees Big Sales Of The Sims 3, EA Sports Active, Still Losing Money

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:40:00 EDT

Electronic Arts may have big sales of The Sims 3 and EA Sports Active to brag about—as well as impressive performance on Nintendo's Wii—but it still lost money this past quarter. More »

Let The Sims 3 Expansions Begin

Mike Fahey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Travel around the simulated world this November, as EA announces The Sims 3 World Adventures, the globe-spanning first expansion to the top-selling threequel. More »

Left 4 Dead Meets The Sims, Francis Looks...Different

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:30:00 EDT

It had to happen. Somebody - in this case Ben Borthwick - has recreated Left 4 Dead in The Sims 3. Complete with a household narrative. More »

Actually, The Sims 3 Was The Biggest-Selling Game In June

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:30:00 EDT

While there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the poor performance of June's console games, on PC, things were looking a little healthier, with EA's The Sims 3 emerging as the month's biggest-selling game on any platform. More »

My Pirate, My Friend

Brian Crecente — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Piracy, the video game industry's multi-billion dollar problem, may have met its match. More »

The Freewheelin' Bob Simoleon

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:30:00 EDT

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Pirated Copies Of Sims 3 Are A "Demo Program"

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:30:00 EDT

Prior to the retail release of The Sims 3, the game leaked onto popular torrent sites. Hundreds of thousands of people then illegally downloaded the game. Which you'd think would make publishers EA really cranky. More »

The Sad Story Of Two Homeless Sims

Mike Fahey — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Meet Alice and Kev, a father/daughter pair of homeless Sims, struggling to survive in a Sim city that wants nothing to do with them. More »

British Sales Charts: On, On You Most Noble...Sims

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Poor ol' Prototype. You'd think June would be a good month to launch a solid piece of new IP and, with Activision's backing, see it take the top spot. More »

Five Good Breakup Games

AJ Glasser — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:40:00 EDT

Breaking up is hard to do, but video games can help. Here are five 2009 titles that'll get you through the five stages of grief. More »

EA Re-Thinking How You Spend Your Gaming Money

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:40:17 EDT

Pirated copies of The Sims 3 temporarily rattled EA. Burnout Paradise DLC came too late. And Battleforge is now part of the hardest market in gaming. So said EA's CEO to Kotaku in a conversation about games and … money. More »

What Games Are We Tweeting About?

Mike Fahey — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Interested in finding out what titles have gamers Tweeting like crazy? Look no further than Tweet My Gaming, a new website from the creators of GamerDNA. More »

The Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million During Week One

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:20:53 EDT

Was there ever any doubt that The Sims 3 would be a smashing success? If so, sweep away those doubts, because the Electronic Arts published game is now "the best-selling PC launch in EA's history." More »

A Bright Idea: Sims 3 USB Christmas Lights

AJ Glasser — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:20:00 EDT

To go with the reviewers' copies of The Sims 3 Collectors Edition (plum-bob USB memory stick included), EA also sent a set of USB Christmas lights, also in the shape of plum-bobs. More »