The Sims 3

Happy Valentine's Day! Want to win some cool new stuff for your Sims? Come find out what you need to do to get some free Master Suite Stuff...

Reveal the secrets of a mysterious corporation, explore Egypt's ancient pyramids, and wake a few mummies as we take you through The Sims 3 World Adventures Al Simhara in our guide...

Take your Sim to China to explore ancient temples, uncover historical relics, beef up their martial arts skills and, of course, earn some simoleons. Find our complete walkthrough right here...

Whether they’ve advanced menacingly toward our camera lenses, hidden their faces when we look at them or just sort of hovered aimlessly, ghosts have been a semi-constant threat in videogames almost since the medium was invented. One of the great things about games, however, is that they’re a way to explore unusual viewpoints – and every once in a while, they give us a chance to see through the eyes of these undead phantoms, and find out what it’s like to flit insubstantially through an earthly plane that’s perpetually, almost comically afraid of us.

Only a handful of games have actually offered a chance to see things from the proverbial Other Side, but these are our favorites...

While you could certainly make an argument that EA is nickel-and-diming customers with constant Sims 3 expansion packs, they’ve typically been meaty additions that add interesting gameplay to the Sims experience. The Sims 3 Generations, unfortunately, adds a lot of content, but not a lot of substance...

Expansion packs for The Sims 3 tend to come in two varieties. The ones that contain the suffix “stuff,” such as Outdoor Living Stuff and Fast Lane Stuff, are mostly collections of new items and clothing to mess around with in your Sims 3 game. Non-“stuff” expansions, like Ambitions and Late Night, historically have added significant new gameplay features to the experience...

A mere four months after the “Ambitions” expansion added professions to the Sims 3 experience, EA is at it again with an expansion pack that places a heavy emphasis on socializing after-hours, mostly at bars and clubs. You might say, then, that Late Night is all about simulating experiences that most Sims addicts would never get in their real lives, but that would be mean...

A common problem with jobs in The Sims series is that they've always been kind of boring. Player interaction with a Sim's career is the very definition of bare bones. Other than making sure your sim is awake and ready to catch his carpool, the player is usually forced to merely wait until the Sim comes home. Typically, Sims can't even be viewed in their work environment, forcing you to imagine what, exactly, is going on inside those walls. Is the hospital where your Sim works full of all the gossip, sex and humor of an episode of Scrubs? You don't know. Ambitions changes that...

 

Last week, GamesRadar was invited to Electronic Arts’ Redwood City campus for an early peak at The Sims 3: Ambitions expansion pack. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to share our impressions of the upcoming expansion for another week. But we did manage to bring a camera so we could give you a behind the scenes look at the EA campus and the studio where The Sims 3 was developed. Ever wonder where your Sims came from? Wonder no more and join us for a quick tour...

Will Wright (aka Mr. Sim City) is making a TV Show. No really, we kid you not. Entitled Creation Project, if it's anything less than a half hour programme of Wright flying about in jet packs, we’ll be gutted. And this made us get our ponder on. What kind of shows would other game developers make? Well, you’ve come to the right place to find out.

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