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News
16 May 2013 - 23:08
Woot, after weeks (and a forced break in between) of working on it, I am happy to announce that our forums are back online! All accounts that were created after August 2012 are gone, so if you signed up between August and January, it's probably a good idea to do that again! 
16 May 2013 - 20:19
Loving the new set from the store! The normal price is 1,575 SimPoints, but it's on sale until May 31 for 1,350 SimPoints. Woot!
16 May 2013 - 19:56
Woooo it's finally here!
16 May 2013 - 19:43
GamesIndustry International has an article online of the top selling franchises from 2005-2012, with EA listed at #3 (2012), and The Sims is listed at #9 (2005-2012)!
15 May 2013 - 20:21
SimFans is currently doing interviews with several fansites from all around the world. SimsNetwork was also asked to participate, which is such an honour to me! The interview has been published today. Click here to read it! You can read all the fansites interviews here! 
9 May 2013 - 02:36
Several SimGurus, including SimGuruTaterTot and SimGuruGraham, have tweeted about the new Dragon Valley panorama background on the official website. It's really beautiful. Can't wait to get this world in my game!
9 May 2013 - 02:23
The SimCity team has released the 3.0 patch, and they want your feedback:
Hey everyone-- we just rolled out Update 3.0 on the majority of our servers (Oceanic 2, NA West 3, Europe West 6, and Antarctica are still undergoing server upgrades and will return later today).
Now we want to hear your feedback!
Let us know what you think of the new changes in this thread. BTW: You can find all the notes contained in Update 3.0 here.
If you spot any new issues, direct them to our thread on Answers HQ.
Thanks, Mayors!
8 May 2013 - 00:22
Platinum Simmers has just discovered that The Sims 4 will be released early 2014!
And as we announced yesterday on EA’s blog, we will publish The Sims 4 on PC in early 2014.
That's great news. Gives me reason to think the time travel EP will really be the last one. We'll see!
7 May 2013 - 10:33
I just heard that Twallan will not be making any mods for The Sims 4:
So... Worst kept secret ? OMG, Sims 4. Really, you all knew it was coming, admit it.
For those of you who don't know, I decided a while ago not to publicly mod beyond Sims 3.
Frankly the idea of starting this whole spiel over again is simply unappetizing to me.
That, and the amount of free-time this whole phenomena eats up is atrocious.
I do intend to continue modding Sims 3 though, at least until the game can no longer be played on my operating system (knowing Microsoft that will probably happen with Windows 9
)
I have put a lot of work into this suite, and have no intention to simply drop it for the next best thing.
Hopefully EA does not thrash the game-engine too badly with the final patches, having to work around crash-to-desktop issues would put a damper on things.As for Sims 4 :
If it is indeed moddable, I'm sure there will be plenty of modders interested in jumping into that limelight.
I wish them the best of luck with that.
Cheers.