If you haven’t already pre-ordered Sims 3, then you might check out Walmart.com. They’re offering the game plus a cool looking USB plug-in lamp! I’m having a hard time deciding if I have buyer’s remorse for pre-ordering from EA. Then again, though the lamp is cool, I will be ...

Of all the career paths the Sims franchise ever offered, the criminal career track was the most morally unambiguous with the least amount of consequences… until now. Now, you can go to jail while working the criminal career path. Now, you can steal things from your friends' and neighbors' houses. ...

Ghosts push aside alien abductions, werewolf infections and nightclubbing vampires to become the sole element of the occult in The Sims 3. There's always something supernatural in every Sims game. From werewolf babies in the Sims 2 Pets expansion all the way back to alien abductions in The Sims (whi...

I was going to write about modeling hacks for you guys to download but then I checked my email box and found answers to questions that you guys had for a Sims 3 developer.  The first few are questions that I had and the ones from you guys are attributed to the asker. I want to thank all of you who ...

Went to Circuit City today, since Bridget needed a camera and I've been on the lookout for an external hard drive since my old one's power source is failing. I got an ADORABLE Toshiba 320GB one that HAS no separate power source! So cute! Wasn't a SPECTACULAR deal, but neither was it a ripoff, and it...

So after the uproar created by the announcement that Sims 3 is being delayed for a few months, we now have another little firestorm on our hands. Are there “real” vampires in Sims 3? These screens are floating around the interweb right now of a male and a female vampire: They look like &...

I didn’t want to believe that the reported delay was going to affect the US. I wanted to stay in my little fantasy world and believe that the delay would only hit the foreign markets and that the US would be able to thumb our noses at everyone else.  [Not very nice but we were SO close to the...

I did do a search for this and found a post from last month that had asked about it the requirements for Sims 3. I think somebody had posted them but I have the ones that are from the Sims 3 website, which differ from what was posted in a comment. I hope this post is helpful to anybody who is thinki...

Maxis [finally] announced the minimum system requirements for Sims 3. Quite honestly, the specs. aren’t nearly as crazy as I was expecting but I know there are going to be a lot of disappointed Simmers out there. Remember that these are minimums and if you’re right at these minimums then...

Do you have questions about The Sims 3? Well EA has just unleashed a massive amount of answers in the form a a 30-question Q&A document that covers everything from the new character personality system to what kind of parties your sims can participate in. Of course the big question on all major fans ...