It’s finally here! The producer walkthrough video for The Sims 3 Island Paradise is now ready for watching. Grab your sunscreen, swimsuit, and maybe your scuba gear!
The Sims 3 Store: Fifth Avenue Fashions Now Available
After getting two sneak peeks at the upcoming store set earlier in the week, the new store set, Fifth Avenue Fashions is now available on The Sims 3 Store. The set contains 26 items that are both male and female clothing and a few new hair styles.
Are you tired of the casual nature of dress in the business world today? Do you prefer fitted suits, crisp collars and neat pocket squares for men? What about pretty pearls, sophisticated dresses and pompadour hair for women? If so, the Fifth Avenue Fashions Set is dressed to impress! Inspired by business fashions of the early 1960s, this set has a little bit of everything for those who are looking for that classic look.
Fifth Avenue Fashions
Items: 26
SimPoints: 1,350 (On sale until 5/30/2013, normal price 1,575 SimPoints.)
More Info & Download Here
Three The Sims 3 Supernatural Achievements Removed
SimGuruRusskii has announced via The Sims 3 Official Forums that they have removed three game achievements from the list of achievements due to them not working properly. The achievements that were removed are provided below. All of the achievements required you to have The Sims 3 Supernatural expansion pack.
The Odd Bunch
Bronze
Description: Get a Supernatural Fan Sim to have 3 Werewolf, Vampire, Fairy, Ghost and Witch Friends.
Take a Break from those Monsters
Bronze
Witch w/Vamp spouse, Ghost, Fairy and Werewolf children ride brooms to a Comm lot – confirmed by a Guru. May take a few months before it is achievable.
All things Great and Small
Bronze
Make out w/Werewolf, Fairy, Ghost, Vamp, Witch and regular Sim.
Thanks to SimsVIP for the tip.
The Sims 3 Dragon Valley Dragon Egg Interactions
SimGuruCopeland has given a small look into what kind of interactions our Sims will have with baby dragon eggs in The Sims 3 Dragon Valley. In the tweet, while SimGuruCopeland couldn’t detail all of the “Talk To” interactions, he did mention that there is one called “Gossip About Love of Fire.” It appears that you will be able to determine what kind of dragon your Sim will have based on what they talk to the baby dragon egg about.
@zoeloumoo I can’t tell you all the “Talk To” Egg interactions just yet, but there is one called, “Gossip About Love of Fire”.
— Alan Copeland (@SimGuruCopeland) May 15, 2013
Preview Of The Sims 3 Island Paradise Walkthrough
Get a sneak preview at The Sims 3 Island Paradise Walkthrough video that will be out tomorrow. GameStop has posted a small 13 second of the video not showing much, but definitely is worth watching for what you see!
The preview cannot be embedded, so you’ll want to visit GameStop and scroll down towards the bottom of the page under Product Details.
The Sims 3 Live Broadcast May 23, 2013
There will be a The Sims 3 Live Broadcast held on Thursday, May 23, 2013 starting at 10:00am PDT. The broadcast will demo The Sims 3 Dragon Valley store world and we’ll get a chance to see the faces and meet the Guru’s behind The Sims 4 team! As always we’ll have the replay for those that miss the event so make sure to mark your calendar!
Tune in to The Sims Live Broadcast on May 23rd at 10am PDT to watch an in-depth walkthrough of The Sims 3 Dragon Valley and get introduced to a few members of The Sims 4 development team!
Located: thesims.com/live/ - Link not working yet.
The Sims 3 Island Paradise Resort Tower Sizes
The other day SimGuruGraham shared the houseboat hull sizes for Island Paradise, and yesterday, SimGuruMike shared the sizes for the Resort Towers. The Resort Towers are rabbithole buildings that you can (must) use when running and building your own resort. They provide Sims a place to fulfill their needs if you do not provide VIP (custom built) rooms. The Resort Towers are also where your resort employees come out of to complete their tasks.
Here are the footprint sizes for the resort towers.
Small Beach Tower = 4×8
Beach Tower = 13×8
Spanish Style = 9×29
Modern Style = 16×22Your employees will be coming out of these towers so you just have to make sure the entrances/exits are not blocked.
In case you were interested I was able to completely enclose the small beach tower into a 4×11 square build/buy room that still allowed for proper routing.
Each tower style will have 3-preset colors. Unfortunately you will not be able to use create-a-style on them.
I hope this helps you out.
The Sims 4 Simlish Text Has Been Revealed
When Maxis announced The Sims 4 on Monday. May 6th, one of the things many Simmers wanted to know was, What does the Simlish text say on TheSims4.com next to the newsletter signup? Thanks to the help of many new awesome SimGuru’s via Twitter that work on The Sims 4, the text has now been revealed as to what it actually says.
Because you took the time to decode this message, here’s why we love you:
- Your creativity captivates us, your enthusiasm inspires us
- May 23, June 18, July 9, remember these days
- Without you, we wouldn’t have come this far
We’re making this game for you, because of you, thank you for being the greatest fans in the world.
The 7 new Guru’s to Twitter that work exclusively on The Sims 4 at the moment are below for your following pleasure. Make sure to give them a follow in addition to all of the other awesome Guru’s on Twitter such as SimGuruGraham, SimGuruLauren, SimGuruSmitty, SimGuruSarah, SimGuruTaterTot, and SimGuruShannon, and many more!
@SimGuruAaron
@SimGuruGrant
@SimGuruJill
@SimGuruKevin
@SimGuruLyndsay
@SimGuruRachel
@SimGuruSteph
The Sims 3 Store: Sneak Peek For May 16th
SimGuruTaterTot has shared a sneak peek at the new store set coming this Thursday, May 16th, to The Sims 3 Store.
Update 5/15/2013
SimGuruTaterTot has shared another sneak peek of tomorrow’s The Sims 3 Store Set.
Hi folks!
With so much buzz and excitement around Dragon Valley — don’t forget we’re still releasing a new set this Thursday. Wonder what it’ll be?
GameInformer’s Worst The Sims 4 Expansion Pack Ideas
GameInformer has posted an article on what they believe to be the worst expansion packs ideas for The Sims 4. This article is intended to be funny, not negative, and in no way would Maxis consider these ideas. Maxis would make them way more interesting and fun, I’m sure!
The Sims 4 – Offbeat Hobbies
Sims can do all kinds of cool things in their free time. Reading, writing, chess, stargazing all help the people in your household develop into well-rounded individuals. Unfortunately, not everyone has normal pastimes, and that’s what this expansion explores. Players get access to range of awkward hobbies (and associated props and materials) that are sure to raise a red flag at any social function. Taxidermy, model trains, bottle cap collecting, and historical recreation are just a handful of the new hobbies that will help transform your sim into that weird neighbor who everyone avoids. If you do manage to engage someone in conversation, the unnerving intensity and jarring non sequiturs perfectly highlight your sims’ bizarre new obsession.