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The Sims EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Sims 3 World Adventures out November 17 5 A couple of months back, we told you that EA was planning on releasing songs performed by real singers in Simlish, the language Sims speak in Sims games. The first song by Nelly Furtado, "Manos ... The Sims: The movie 11 I would take this over an Asteroids movie any day. And yes, in case you've been living under a rock, there really is an Asteroids movie in the works. The funniest part about this trailer is a tw... Reticulating splines: Maxis hit with layoffs 16 Shacknews brings even more bad news today as a series of layoffs have hit Maxis, the developers of Spore, The Sims and other Sim titles. Electronic Arts told Shacknews that: "Often in the ... GC 09: EA announces new Simlish music in Sims 3 expansion 5 At the EA press conference today in Cologne, it was announced that the next expansion to The Sims 3, World Adventures will have more music from big artists performing their hit songs in Simlish. ... The first Sims 3 expansion, 'World Adventures,' revealed 16 This morning, Electronic Arts revealed the first expansion pack for The Sims 3. Dubbed “World Adventures,” the content appears to be geared towards giving your Sims some culture -- vi... Read it and weep: Burkshaw's homeless Sims are depressing 15 I've never been a big fan of Will Wright's games -- when I was a kid, I found SimCity and SimEarth too deep and confusing and, as a teenager, was quickly bored by The Sims. A games desgin student... People like The Sims 3, buy 1.4 million copies 20 Sims 3 sells boatloads,undeterred by piracy.The Brits love it too.Lots of new contentand a saucy naked patchmay have helped drive sales.EA celebrates;they enjoy profits you see.PR after jump. The Sims 3 gets an 'uncensor' patch before it's released 49 What's the first thing any self-respecting gamer should do when legally purchasing the latest PC game? That's right -- make everyone and everything as naked as they can possibly get. With that in... Captain Obvious: Pirates heart The Sims 3 in a big way 22 I know a guy who knows a guy whose brother heard that an unfinished version of The Sims 3 leaked onto the Internet fairly recently. Perhaps you heard the same?Anyway, Next Generation found out fr... Sims 3 + Susan Boyle = Weekend post 19 Some things just aren't really worth of the weekday spotlight, but are slightly interesting enough to warrant some weekend love. EA's Sims 3 good luck wishes to Susan Boyle, the Britain's Got Tal... Sims 3 trailers shows no gameplay, looks like the apocalypse 17 The release of The Sims 3 draws near, and here you have the commercial that will air on broadcast television leading up to the game’s out-of-control retail success. To me, it’s kind o... The Sims 3 gameplay trailer: babies, treadmills, and love 8 Electronic Arts and Maxis  has been makin’ magic with The Sims titles for years now. If you haven’t been abreast with the latest rumblings on The Sims front, allow me to inform y... The Sims 3 has gone so gold that it's ridiculous 11 Electronic Arts Sims Studio today has announced that The Sims 3 for PC and Mac is finished and done; it’s gone gold and been sent to manufacturing for its June 2 street date. And that&rsquo... Multi-talented MySims now secret agents, snooping around 5 What can't these MySims do? Despite their small size, they've run kingdoms, know how to party, and have got their stuff together behind the wheel of a go-kart. Now it's been revealed that they're... Preview: MySims Racing 6 I have to say: I rock at MySims Racing. I am so good at it -- without ever playing it before -- I was able to beat the producer of the game, Charles Murakami, in every single race. I might have... Preview: The Sims 3 41 I often lament the fact that I don’t have a gaming-capable PC, but to be honest, I’m very glad that I don’t own one for some things. EA’s The Sims franchise is one of thos... Vampires in Sims 3 confirmed via bitching 11 What Destructoid Editor-in-Chief Nick Chester wants, he gets. Here's a perfect example: Electronic Arts teased about "Vampire Sims" coming out of a Sims 3 Creator Camp at their Redwood ... The Sims 3 gets June 2 worldwide launch date 5 While I still haven't gotten my vampire screenshots, The Sims 3 has gotten a firm release date -- June 2, 2009. The title was originally scheduled to ship this February, but according to Russell ... Electronic Arts promises us Sim 3 vampires, doesn't deliver, makes us sad 7 So Electronic Arts recently held a Sims 3 "Creator Camp" at their EA Redwood Shores campus, giving players the opportunity to design their own content using the game's deep custom conte... EA anounces four MySims games, we report 3 EA and I agree on a few things. We both think dismemberment (Dead Space) is an excellent gameplay device. And we both firmly believe that the Wii and DS need more party games. I was nothing more ... Check out the ways you can design your Sims before making them miserable 5 [video]115623:926[/video]Two (proper) installments of The Sims with countless expansion packs and these things still creep the hell out of me.This video is doing nothing to change that assessment... Sims trailer features evil people doing evil things, also telekinetic babies 17 [video]114423:856[/video]In this latest trailer for EA Maxis’ The Sims 3, viewers will get acquainted with a bit of the personality involved in the game. Instead of the happy-go-lucky Sims ... Hollywood revelation: 'most games aren't movies,' also The Sims story details 14 Film has never been a medium that videogames translate particularly well to. I am in complete agreement with Jim Sterling that the reason for this (aside from obvious time constraints) is mostly ... The Sims 3 dated, apparently people care 12 Today at Leipzig, Electronic Arts announced that The Sims 3 will hit worldwide on February 20, 2009. Interestingly, the game will also be available digitally the same day. For those of you that c... EA Showcase 08: The Sims 2: Apartment Life 9 Take a guess how many expansion packs there have been since Electronic Arts released The Sims 2 some four years ago? Go on, guess. I'll wait. Answer: seven. There have been seven expansion p... New The Sims 3 screens confirm 'doing stuff' and 'being people' gameplay 19 Electronic Arts have issued some new screenshots from the forthcoming The Sims 3, and in case there was any question about it, these images confirm that you'll still be able to do "stuff&quo... Sims 2 IKEA expansion redecorates PC charts 7 Decorating a Sims house is so totally better than creating monsters in Spore. Just ask PC gaming consumers. According to gamesindustry.biz the NPDs for the week ending on July 5 show that the mig... The Sims are moving on up: New games let them experience apartment life 20 Electronic Arts has announced two new games in its gazillion-selling The Sims franchise. The first, The Sims 2: Apartment Life, is an expansion that sees Sims moving away from dull suburbia and b... Flab nabba!: 100 million units of The Sims sold worldwide 13 Today, Electronic Arts' "The Sims" label has announced that it has hit a milestone, having sold 100 million units of The Sims titles worldwide. The game has been translated into 22 lang... Hash naba fla: EA reveals first info on The Sims 3 36 It's March 19 and as expected, Electronic Arts have revealed the first info on The Sims 3. As one of the best-selling PC games of all-time, it had better be good, don't you think? Based on these... Sims 3 info coming soon, and by soon we mean March 19 27 Hey, guys ... guess what? Electronic Arts and Maxis are developing The Sims 3! Who would have thought that we'd see another installment to what has become one of the best selling computer games o... MySims: Play With Us trailer gives sugar shock from the sweetness 21 I really can't say it better than Nick did: the cuteness of MySims really does make you throw up in your mouth a little. And just when you've brushed your teeth, EA hits us with this trailer for ... EA launches The Sims on Stage Beta [Update] 19 [Update: I guess they were not ready for the Destructoid traffic storm. Nah, I don't know if that's really the reason, but the site has been up and down since the posting of this story this morn... The Sims are totally fierce in The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff; Will Wright cries 11 I remember this one time (last week) that I went into an H&M in my local mall. A piercingly intolerable drum and bass remix of Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Escape" blared out of ... The Sims: The Movie: The intensely stupid idea 59 According to Harry Knowles' AICN, 20th Century Fox now has the rights to make a movie adaptation of The Sims based on a script penned by the genius who brought you Scary Movie 3.Doesn't t...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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