{"id":1799,"date":"2009-05-18T02:59:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2009-05-18T02:59:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T02:59:02","slug":"the-sims-3-goes-gold-time-to-celebrate-and-gear-up-for-the-sims-3-launch-on-4-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"The Sims 3 GOES GOLD &#8211; Time to Celebrate and Gear Up for The Sims 3 Launch on 4 June, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EA Sims Studio is pleased to announce that The Sims 3, the highly-anticipated flagship game from the best-selling PC franchise The Sims, has gone gold for the PC and Mac, is off to manufacturing and will ship to stores in Australia on 4 June, 2009.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn The Sims 3, you have more options than ever before to create and play with unique, life-like Sims. Customise your Sims\u2019 appearances and choose up to five traits to create individual personalities. New goal-oriented game-play enables you to choose which short or long-term objectives you want your Sims to pursue. You can choose to make them happy or not! You can also create and edit your own movies by capturing game-play moments or selecting from a library of clips. Then join The Sims 3 online community where you can show off all your creations, get free bonus content, hear the latest news and more!<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Sims 3 Collector\u2019s Edition, available at select retailers for $119, will include the full game along with an additional collectable 2GB The Sims Plumbob\u2122 USB drive, tips and hints guide and a bonus in-game European-styled sports car unavailable elsewhere. The Sims 3 will be available for purchase at retail and online through digital distribution for $99 starting 4 June at <a href=\"http:\/\/eastore.ea.com\/store\/ea\/ContentTheme\/pbPage.the_sims3\/ThemeID.718200\">http:\/\/eastore.ea.com\/store\/ea\/ContentTheme\/pbPage.the_sims3\/ThemeID.718200<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sims 3 was developed by The Sims Studio and is rated T for Teen. To download artwork, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.info.ea.com\">www.info.ea.com<\/a>. For more information about The Sims 3, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheSims3.com\">www.TheSims3.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EA Sims Studio is pleased to announce that The Sims 3, the highly-anticipated flagship game from the best-selling PC franchise The Sims, has gone gold for the PC and Mac, is off to manufacturing and will ship to stores in Australia on 4 June, 2009. \u00a0 In The Sims 3, you have more options<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1799\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}