EA Play, Electronic Arts’ casual gaming label, announced yesterday that the fourth full-fledged expansion for 2009′s wildly popular life simulation The Sims 3, titled Generations, will be available for purchase on PC and Mac beginning next week worldwide.

The fourth expansion adds new careers, new traits, new types of celebrations, graduation ceremonies and a whole bunch of other new features. The expansion is designed to give a more complete story for your Sim, from childhood to the rebellious teen years and on up into adulthood, where you’ll further flesh out your Sim’s story as you choose to tell it.

“The Sims 3 Generations gives us an opportunity to expand every life stage and the chance for players to delve deeper into each of their special moments,” said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims Studio at EA, about the expansion. “From exploring the creative and playful childhood years, the angst-ridden defiant teenager years, to the moment of time when adults celebrate life through bachelor parties and weddings, we wanted players to have the tools to tell the richest stories possible for any life stage.”

If you’ve been looking for something to pull you right back into spending countless hours in The Sims 3, this expansion sounds like it just might do the trick.

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Twilight and The Sims: two franchises that drive the tweens wild, so what better way to promote one by parodying the other? That’s what EA did to spread word about World Adventures, a brand new expansion for The Sims 3. In the trailer you see below, you can gawk in wonderment at the following:

- Edward and Jacob SNOGGING!
- More dudes with SHIRTS OFF!
- MORE LIPSTICK!
- !!!!!

Bravo, EA. Actually, this looks infinitely better than the film. Yeah, I went there.

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[VIDEO] New Moon parodied in Sims 3 trailer is a post from: The Inquisitr

The Sims 3 Leaked

The Sims 3 files posted on The Pirate’s Bay are just under 5GB total and come from a user listed as “lordofwhee.” As of this posting, nearly 750 people had downloaded the files.

“‘Cause I love all of you so very much, I present The Sims 3,” the top of the page states.

Comments from a moderator and others suggest The Sims 3 leak is the real deal. Electronic Arts has yet to comment on the matter.

The Pirate’s Bay, you may remember, was the subject of a major court case last month. A Swedish court found its founders guilty of breaking copyright law and sentenced them to one year in jail along with US$3.6 million in damages.

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