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EA’s confirmed the console versions of The Sims 3 will release in the Holiday season this year.

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EA and Dr Pepper are teaming up to offer people gaming codes for chugging the popular soft drink.

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A new video for The Sims 3, which had an expansion called World Adventures come out this week, has surfaced.

It makes fun of the Twilight saga, by parodying New Moon.

Actually, it looks loads better to us. We would actually pay to see this in theaters.

Watch on below.

In other Sims news, there’s also a patch available and you can get it here.

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The Sims 3 expansion pack World Adventures will come packed with basement tools, which allow players to create underground structures with up to four levels.

EA has added tomb objects for exploratory adventures and purposes and certain ones -like the Fogger – hides unexplored areas from view, or hidden stairways which lead to secret passages.

Other objects include floor switches, traps that shoot fire, steam, electricity, darts and other neat Indiana Jones type stuff.

The expansion’s out November 17, and Kotaku has all you need to know on underground bits, but Sim Operations has the rest of the expansion detailed here, along with a teaser trailer.

The EA financial call is still ongoing and in it the company revealed that The Sims 3 has sold 3.7 million copies.

Sims 3 was the top selling title in North America and Europe for the quarter, it was revealed.

There’s loads of Sims fans out there, apparently.

Full financials can been read here.

EA has announced the first expansion pack for The Sims 3, known as The Sims 3: World Adventures, which will ship worldwide on November 16.

The expansion sees your Sims taken out of Sunset Valley as they go across around the world to countries including China, France and Egypt.

Press release and the first three screens are after the jump.

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NPD numbers for PC sales in June finally arrived, and like EA claimed already, The Sims destroyed the charts.

The third main release in the series took the top two spots with The Sims 2 coming in at number three.

Blizzard’s behemoth World of Warcraft took the fourth, fifth, seventh and eleventh spots, so no need to cry for them or anything.

Full list of top PC games in June is as follows courtesy of Gamasutra:

1. The Sims 3 (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts)
2. The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts)
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts)
4. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard Entertainment)
5. World of Warcraft Battle Chest (Blizzard Entertainment)
6. Spore: Galactic Adventures (Maxis, Electronic Arts)
7. World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
8. Spore (Maxis, Electronic Arts)
9. Empire: Total War (The Creative Assembly, Sega)
10. StarCraft Battle Chest (Blizzard Entertainment)
11. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (Blizzard Entertainment)
12. Reel Deal Slots Adventure (Phantom EFX)
13. Civilization IV: Complete Edition (Firaxis Games, 2K Games)
14. WarCraft III Battle Chest (Blizzard Entertainment)
15. SimCity Box (Maxis, Electronic Arts)
16. Diablo Battle Chest (Blizzard Entertainment)
17. The Sims 2: Apartment Life (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts)
18. Prototype (Radical Entertainment, Activision)
19. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GOTY Edition (Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks/2K Games)
20. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Terminal Reality, Atari)

The NPD Group has revealed that EA’s The Sims 3 was the best selling game for the PC last month.

Unfortunately, the NPD Group no longer distributes PC sales data publicly, but it has revealed the above.

EA said that The Sims 3 sold 1.4 million in June.

Thanks, Edge.

If you hadn’t guessed after reading the headline; Fight Night Round 4 sits top of the tree in this week’s serving of UK chart action.

It’s punched Prototype off top spot which in turn has pushed The Sims 3 to third.

Full top ten here:

Update: Worth a mention: GI points out that this is the first time a boxing title has hit the number one in the all-format charts. So congrats to that.

EA and Dr Pepper are to announce a “multi-million dollar” marketing deal, according to IndustryGamers.

This isn’t your common or garden stuff, from the look of it. The partnership will see EA integrate original content related to Dr Pepper in its games, starting with The Sims 3 in early 2010.

In addition, EA will work with Dr Pepper to put codes on more than 500 million specially-marked Dr Pepper packages, which can then be used to unlock “exclusive premium downloadable content that may include one-of-a-kind beach party items or all the elements of a perfect fall tailgating party.”

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The pirated version of The Sims 3 acted as a demo to some, EA boss John Riccitiello has joked. He’s a funny guy.

“You identified our secret marketing campaign!” Riccitiello told IndustryGamers. “That was a very large scale – concentrated on Poland and China – demo program.

“In the game that was pirated there’s [only] one city [out of two]… and Sims 3 has a massive amount of content, and a lot of it is downloaded once you register with EA… and join the online community” he elaborates. “So you get that content in addition to the second city [which is downloadable for people who register], and that’s a major component… A huge amount of the gameplay is an overlay for the community, where you are sampling assets created by other people”.

Sims 3 has beaten Spore as the most pirated game of all time, having been downloaded more than 200,000 times before it came out. There’s more through there.

Thanks, Kotaku.

The Sims 3 has taken a second week at the top of the UK chart, with Prototype settling for a pleasing number two debut.

Worth noting World at War’s re-entry into the top ten. The power of DLC, right there.

Last week’s chart here. Data below for the week ending June 13.

EA’s claimed that The Sims 3′s sold over 1.4 million units in its first week on sale.

The figure includes both Mac and PC SKUs. The company also said it had seen more than 7 million downloads of user-created content in the same period.

More on GI.

According to a Bloomberg report, The Sims 3 has been pirated and downloaded approximately 180,000 times between May 18 and 21.

It’s not out until June 2, and EA says that the pirated version is not even the full thing.

“The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game,” said EA rep Holly Rockwood. “It’s not the full game. Half the world — an entire city — is missing from the pirated copy.”

Comparatively, EA’s Spore was pirated 400,000 last year in the matter of three weeks.

The game does not have DRM software attached, leading some to speculate EA left it off due to the hoopla surrounding the inclusion of it on Spore.

More through the link.

Thanks, GameDaily.

A Sims 3 video called Living the Life is posted for you after the break.

Shows families, picnics, videogames, butterflies, kissing, dancing, fishing, happy people – the usual stuff you’d see in a Norman Rockwell painting, along with exercise and walking around in your underwear.

Play UK has the game listed for a June 5 release in Europe, while the US gets it on June 2.

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A few new shots of The Sims 3 after the break, two of which were labelled “gone gold” on Gamespress.

This may mean the game’s gone gold. Watch for a press release later.

It’s out on June 5.

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Janco’s Mike Hickey has predicted that The Sims 3 could sell up to 4 million units in 2009.

Sims 2 sold an estimated 3.5 units in calendar 2004. Sims 3 releases in June.

Hickey also said he expects the upcoming Harry Potter game to sell about 3.2 million units sold-in.

More on Gama.

A second Sims 3 town will be available for the game from launch, EA just announced.

The extra play space, named Riverview, is one of a set of online features to be provided for the game, which also include a shop, a community “launcher” and a website with movie creation features.

A lifetime’s Christmases, all at once. Press release after the break. The game’s out on June 2.

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More EA media popped up overnight in the form of new Sims 3 screens, as seen on Gamespot.

It’s out in June for both PC and Mac. Lifting virtual weights was never so appealing.

Having confirmed that The Sims 3 will have no online protection yesterday, the company’s now said the policy will only extend to that single game for now.

“We are just looking at this solution for The Sims 3 at the moment,” a rep told Eurogamer.

Maxis boss Rod Humble said on his blog this week that online DRM would skip Sims 3.