With The Sims Medieval, those delightful lil’Sims are going, erm, medieval in a Sim-ulation of kingdom building, quests, combat and power. We got treated to a gameplay glimpse of The Sims Medieval well ahead of its Spring 2011 release earlier this week. Does it look like being worth your gold? Or should it be sent to the stocks? Read on to discover how it’s shaping up in our The Sims Medieval review: First look.
The Renault Twizy Z.E electric car concept will make its first European test drives on the virtual streets of The Sims 3. While the real world Renault Twizy Z.E concept debuted at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, it’s not expected to hit the road until 2012 so driving it in The Sims 3 is your best bet for the time being.
Parliament is set to release an iPhone app. The new app will work alongside MP For a Week, an online game to introduce school children to the workings of parliament. Disappointingly it isn’t just like The Sims with added ridiculous expense claims.
The murky world of gaming spin offs plunged to new lows last week when publisher Penguin and Ubisoft announced plans to unleash Assassin’s Creed 2: The Novel! But rather than priming a space on our book shelves and promising to read the book before we slide the disc into our PS3, we’ve primed a top ten of the worst gaming spin-offs ever. Hold onto your night vision goggles, we’ve unearthed some ‘classics’.
The Sims 3′s launch has got off to a controversial start. Electronic Arts, the world’s largest videogames publisher and owner of The Sims series, has commissioned a 1,000 person survey to rewrite The Bible’s Ten Commandments.
EA’s heavy-handed DRM policies have caused some serious backlash from the gaming community, but it looks like the publisher is mending its ways. Having bowed to pressure and released a tool for unlocking Spore from your system, EA has now extended the gesture to another 17 titles released since May 2008. You can download it here.
Kiss goodbye to your free time. The Sims 3 will be hitting a computer near you, bringing all manner of twee distractions to suck up your social life.
Google’s just launched its own social networking virtual world, a bit like second life, but without all the creepy undertones.
