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Unlike previous games in the series. The Sims Medieval is being designed to let players create hero characters and have them go on quests such as protecting the kingdom from evil forces. Players can even give hero character fatal flaws and have them do more domestic chores like caring for a baby or trading in town. The game will be released for both PC and Mac in the spring of 2011.

The newest expansion The Sims 3: Late Night was recently announced, which will give sims a chance to head into the city and party down. Sims can schmooze with celebrities at rooftop parties on top of a penthouse or try to gain entrance into exclusive night clubs. Players can also take night life literally by allowing their sims to become vampires for the ultimate nocturnal experience.

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It will soon be time for your Sims to get down with their bad digital selves. Electronic Arts has just announced the upcoming and latest expansion pack for The Sims 3. Titled Late Night, the expansion pack will be release sometime later this fall.

Your Sims can now leave their humdrum lives at home and head out to the clubs to party down. Sims can become part of a musical act or be behind the bar as a "mixologist" or become a Paris Hilton-like celeb. You might even find yourself in a darker part of town where vampires hang out. Better keep some garlic handy.

Direct2Drive's own mini-summer sale doesn't quite compare to what Steam has been doing the last several days but the PC game download site still has some nice one day deals to give to customers this week. Today's sale has two very different games from Electronic Arts that have had their prices cut by 50 percent off each.

One is The Sims 3 which can be purchased and downloaded for just $24.95 for today only. The other is FIFA Soccer 10, the only retail sports game that EA still publishes on the PC platform. You can get the latest version for $19.95.

Playing The Sims 3 sometimes make you wonder if these virtual people have any real excitement in their virtual lives. And by "excitement" in that department we really mean more to do than just hang around. Now Electronic Arts has announced plans to rev up the Sims 3 engine again in a new expansion pack: The Sims 3: Fast Lane Stuff.

The expansion, due out this fall, is all about matching your ride to your character. You can go with the Intrigue option that can tun your ride and yourself into a super-spy.You can also turn to the racing option or be a big shot billionaire. There's even an option to turn your ride, your location and yourself into a 1950s'scene. Now all we need is the 'tute to pull it off.

Electronic Arts has just shipped out The Sims 3 Ambitions, the second expansion pack for the third iteration of the mega selling people sim series. But is EA about to take the Sims series in a completely different direction. A clue might be found in some recently discovered URL registrations.

Found by mega-trademarking discovery site superannuation, the sites addresses registered by EA all seem to suggest that a Sims game with a medieval setting might be in the works, or at least being considered enough that EA wanted to secure the URL addresses before someone else did. Might we see an announcement at E3? Stay tuned.

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Fans of The Sims 3 and Sex and the City may be amused by this parody trailer based on the Sex and the City 2 movie commercials. The latest expansion, The Sims 3 Ambitions, released recently and introduced a number of new professions, but somehow we doubt any of them include city socialite. As an added note, since this is The Sims, shouldn't this video be called Whoo-Hoo and the City?

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The Sims 3: Ambitions expansion will give players a chance to expand the careers of their sims to greater heights. Careers include firefighter, private investigator, inventor and more. These jobs give players a chance to tell fantastic stories, and their careers will have a significant impact on the world around them. Fans will have a chance to get to work playing when the expansion releases on June 1st.

Download The Sims 3: Ambitions EA Showcase Interview (126 MB)
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One of the big atttractions for people who play The Sims series of game titles is the amount of freedom that is given to customize the game's characters and enviroments. Today Electronic Arts announced that a new content tool for The Sims 3 will be released this summer that will allow players of the people sim game to make their own patterns to be put into the game and its expansions.

The Pattern Tool can use the many images in the game's sticker library to create and customize patterns that can later be put into your Sims' homes, furniture, clothes and more. Players can also import their own images into the pattern tool. Once completed, players can share their custom Sims 3 patters with other players.

The Sims 3 World Adventures took to far off exotic locations, but the recently announced Ambitions expansions will motivate sims to stay a little closer to home. Expected to release in June, the Ambitions expansion will allow players to control their sims within certain jobs as they pursue their own personal adventures. Among the professions will be firefighters, genius inventors, detectives and doctors that make house calls or dabble in experimental medicine. These jobs should make for a more fulfilled and motivated sim.

Download The Sims 3: Ambitions Trailer (12 MB)