As Pappy-R over on the ve3d.ign.com website recently noted, the upcoming ‘Town Life Stuff’ expansion pack for The Sims 3 game will be available for both the PC and Mac as from June 26th. The pack will enable users to update their neighborhood and their Sims’ style with various items for the house and town.

Does your Sims character enjoy reading? Well players will now be able to build them a library, or perhaps one of the new retro library sets to their Sims’ home. You could even build them a high-tech gym equipped with weight machines and treadmills etc, or maybe a playground complete with a slide and sandbox.

The Town Life Stuff expansion pack also features a washer and dryer set for your home, new outfits and hairstyles for your Sims character and community lots such as the Par Excellence Preparatory School, the Fresh and Frozen Express Grocer and even the Scrumptious Nibbles Café for your Sims to hang out in.

What do you think about the Town Life Stuff expansion pack for The Sims 3?

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As Alexander Sliwinski at joystiq.com notes, The Sims 3: Pets will be a brand new standalone game for the PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360, and standard expansion pack for the Mac and PC. The Sims 3: Pets enables players to create, customize, control, breed and even share many different animals.

The Xbox 360 version will come with Microsoft Kinect capabilities, enabling players to control both their Sims and their pets using voice commands. Meanwhile, the Nintendo 3DS version will use the built-in pedometer, meaning that the more the player walks the more Karma points they will earn.

Players can then use their earned Karma Points on in-game items. Using the Nintendo 3DS’s StreetPass function, gamers will have the ability to gift pets to other Pets owners. The PC / Mac expansion pack provides players with the opportunity to create, customize and even play as horses.

You can read more about The Sims 3: Pets via the joystiq.com link. Are you looking forward to playing The Sims 3: Pets?

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According to a recent cinemablend.com article by Pete Haas, The Sims 3 Generations expansion pack will be available for the PC and Mac as from May 31st. The Generations pack will take players through the various different stages of their Sim character’s life.

The expansion pack starts off in childhood, where players can experience tree houses, dance classes and even imaginary friends. It then moves onto the Sim’s teenage years, including pulling pranks on people, having a party when their parents are out and becoming prom king/queen.

It finally moves on to the Sim character’s adult life, where they can plan or attend weddings or bachelor/bachelorette parties and even experience a mid-life crisis. Players will even be able to make their own home-movies of their Sim’s life with the in-game cameras.

The expansion pack will even enable them to upload their Sim’s home movies to Facebook and TheSims3.com. You can view the trailer for The Sims 3 Generations Expansion Pack below this post. Do you like the sound of the upcoming expansion pack?

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According to Thomas East over at computerandvideogames.com, the new Nintendo 3DS version will enable players to create their very own Sim using the handheld’s camera. Once you have snapped a picture of yourself, you can use it to make a Sim that matches your likeness.

Players will even be able to download new outfits, accessories and hairstyles via the Wi-Fi connection. Another great feature with The Sims 3 game is the Karma Power, which allows gamers to instantly change their Sims’ lives and shaking their 3DS will make money fall down from the sky.

However, gamers may want to be careful when using this power, as it does cause an earthquake if they shake it too much. We don’t know a specific release date, but according to Anoop Gantayat over at andriasang.com, The Sims 3 Nintendo 3DS version is due for release in Spring 2011.

The screenshots can be found over at CVG. Are you looking forward to buying The Sims 3 for Nintendo 3DS?

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The Sims 3 for consoles has everything the PC version has (according to EA), however there will be tweaked controls, a better suited user interface and fun extras such as karma powers and a reward system. The PS3 and 360 editions of the game will also feature an online exchange system where players can share content they’ve created with others.

As with The Sims 3 for PC, these console versions feature an angled top-town “isometric” view, but has a closer camera and easier controls that let you move the “cursor” around by pushing the analog sticks on the controller (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) or pointing at the screen with the Wii Remote. That is why I am sure it will be a big hit on these consoles.

Will you be buying the Sims 3 for your console?

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The Sims franchise has been the PC’s most successful game since it’s initial release in 2000, and EA tell us that the console version of the game which includes “all new” features such as “Karma Powers” where your Sim can be very lucky or be extremely unlucky will be released this fall.

The Nintendo Wii and DS releases will feature exclusive content, with the Wii version coming with a beach town which houses it’s own residents, careers and “lifetime wishes.” The DS version is set to introduce a new “Story Mode” feature which the player can go through a “complete life simulation.”

In the announcement by EA, executive producer Sam Player says that they are bringing players “the best console and hand-held game for The Sims franchise to date.”

With each version set to hold unique aspects of gameplay, which version will you be queuing up on release day to purchase?

Source: Joystiq

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As reported from Eurogamer, Eric Brown revealed the juicy details in a recent investors call – which you can listen to here.

As this hasnt been made official by EA, we are not certain on the exact platforms that the game will be coming to, but you can bet your bottom dollar that it includes the PS3 and Xbox 360, maybe even the Nintendo Wii.

The PC version of the game has been available since June last year, so it makes perfect sense to introduce the game on consoles before Christmas.

Let us know your thoughts on this. We’ll update this when we know more.

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