Gamespot have posted up a Sims 3 hands on, which focuses on the movie making tools.

Check it out here

March 26th 2009

Rod Humble officially announced today that there will be NO SECUROM in The Sims 3. The official statement can be found in the news section of Thesims3.com click here for the statement. Also confirmed by Maxoid Hydra and Maxoid Drea on the forum at TheSims2.com.
A quote from Maxoid Hydra “There will be no SecuROM on the disc and the disc-based game will have no install limits.”

Obviously most of you know this already but the title sums it up. Thread is here: http://forums.sims-community.com/showthread.php?t=65407

Lots of news sites have been covering this but it looks like the Sims 3 might be delayed. Reports from sources such as SnootySims, EuroGamer and also information from game retailers suggests that the game might not be released until August 2009 - this is backed up by reports from the Sims 3 Creators Camp of buggy gameplay and things missing.

You can discuss this in our forums: http://forums.sims-community.com/showthread.php?t=65216

There’s a list of over 50 bug fixes, including

* improved behavior of some objects from other eps and sps
* several fixes involving pets
* fixes with witches, cauldrons, etc
* fixes in apartment behaviors, moving in, etc
* fixes with toddlers and babies

Go take a look, and download!

http://thesims2.ea.com/update/index.php

EA has announced the next stuff pack - Mansion and Garden

It includes 3 decorating themes - Moroccan, Art Deco and Second Empire, and a selection of new colorful flowers and garden decor.

Go see some screenshots:

http://thesims2.ea.com/about/sp9_index.php

Eric was fast this time! Thanks, Eric!

Get your shiny new copy of InSIMenator, updated for Apartment Life over at InSIM!

Also, for those that didn’t already know… the legendary Squinge is back, and updating his stuff for Apartment Life, also at InSIM!

Over at Unlimited Sims, you can find 18 pages of the Apartment Life Prima Guide - It’s currently 4 articles down, posted on Aug 18.

Go visit Unlimited Sims 

Want to know what was discussed about the upcoming Apartment Life EP in the two chats that happened on Aug 7?

http://thesims2.ea.com/community/chat_08_07_08-2.php

and

http://thesims2.ea.com/community/chat_08_07_08.php

There’s a lot of fun info about the ep - which is due out on Aug 28th. So go read!

We have 2 community chats scheduled for Apartment Life this Thursday August 7th. Join us during one of these times: 10:00-10:45am PDT or 4:00-4:45pm PDT

http://thesims2.ea.com/community/chat.php?pid=Community_chat