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I see Adese that the Sims have been able to unseat the powerful Pokemon in the list of bestsellers according to GFK June. The "exergames" or exercise video games are up thanks to Wii Fit, which still fit, and the new EA Sports Active.

To see the tops of platforms just go to the website of ADES .

I welcome enormously

a) to come into my temple sabiduríaaaa

b) the great success of The Sims 3 though and it was a few weeks before hacking into the networks . In the first week in stores, Sims 3 has sold 1.4 million units , which is quite an achievement.

Once again shows how important it is to open up gaming to a new audience, a casual audience, more feminine, that it is not very aware of what torrents are and who loves to play dollhouses. That if Politeness does not hot, and continue to make jewelry like Dead Space, that the "hardcore" also have the right.

Situation contrasts with that of the Sims, for example, GTA Chinatown Wars, which also leaked a few weeks before its official release and whose sales figures have been very low. What is the difference between Chinatown Wars and Sims? I say the audience it is directed and holding each of the sagas. It is radically different.

PS: Very Handsome SBK 09. I have everything hooked.

Following in the footsteps of Spore , The Sims 3 may already be available in networks hacking 2 weeks before its official release, as I see in many American video game sites . It appears, though I do not recommend or encourage (the file can contain viruses or go you know what), the game works and does not require activation online or anything. More bad news for Electronic Arts, which could stop selling many units, as recently happened to Rockstar Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, for example.

Torrent Sims 3 Edition

Now we just need to not repeat the mistakes and not disturb the legal buyers Sims 3 DRM systems with stupid ...

Although it seemed that the crisis has come to video games. The Christmas season has been good and, despite having excellent qualifications, not what should be sold in the period's best-selling video games. This we know well at Electronic Arts (EA), which promised layoffs in the last presentation of results of the company and she has kept. It seems that it has completed the process and the nominees have to be out of the house of Big Brother John Riccitello (CEO of EA).

In the marketing department have "let go" two "historical", responsible for years of the success of franchises like The Sims and FIFA in our country. Both professionals are the cream of the department, so I do not think they have problems relocate despite the crisis. They both wish you well and encourage them to be optimistic. Every cloud has a silver lining, and sometimes it's worth a change.

As shown, Riccitello dismissing the Godfather ...

Gamesindustry also reports that there have been cuts in EA in the UK both in Marketing as PR (press). Want to reach the 1,000 layoffs worldwide and Spain finally collaborate in a process that is sold as a move that will make the company stronger , which they believe or not. Also in other departments has been low, not only marketing has been cut.

The cuts have occurred in a moment of excitement in AD, when presenting the product to journalists who have not yet been announced to users. Also just announced its new products for the Need for Speed ​​series , which was in neutral, and have even reported to have taken over the rights of Vivendi Games Bourne . Starbreeze, one of my studios fetish Riddick game , will be responsible for a project that promises.

New to Activision and SEGA

Activision also no movement after the merger announcement with Blizzard and Vivendi. After a few months you could not hear anything about it, are already being carried out restructuring, focusing on tasks and handing it to people in new challenges. From what little I know are not doing very well, but they will know ...

And we have new PR Manager SEGA is none other than Diana Radetski, former Ubisoft and Virgin. Best of luck to her.

Just the news with a catchy headline: " The video game market has grown overall in 2008 . " Well thank goodness that has grown ...

Nothing was published that the final number of layoffs at Microsoft would be 5,000 worldwide and that the Xbox division would not be little affected, but nothing was said about the Games for Windows ... In fact I just learned that Microsoft would be reduced in this area, whose goal was to revitalize the Titanic PC games for Windows Vista platform failed.

Specifically talking about the dismissal of general manager of Games for Windows Live and the dismantling of the team responsible for a classic, the Microsoft Flight Simulator, which does not mean you stop editing this game, is now aged 27, but take to the people and then see who will see it encasquetan. It also ends with the unemployment of many of the games testers.

The truth is I never understood the intent of Games for Windows. Video games have been essential in the past for one operating system to succeed and to modernize and renew the computer equipment, but today things have changed. The "gamers" have come to consoles, which is a cheaper way to get a newer machine for games (and in most cases just as easy to hack) and the PC remains the monopoly of strategy games in real time, some great players who play Crysis, versions of The Sims for laptops and little else. You do not need a new, more powerful PC, with one office and the Internet serves to let it kill us to play consoles already, whether domestic or laptops.

The Games for Windows brand and platform DirectX 10 was born burdened by the high piracy is on the PC, the integration of graphics cards on motherboards, the proliferation of portable configurations unsuitable for games and little or no acceptance Windows Vista. Attempts to cross the Xbox to the PC and make players play both platforms together not succeeded. Anyway, little positive can be taken out of the subject.

In any case, as they also say the guys at EA, layoffs for the company will emerge strengthened. I love this phrase! How cool is that?

After the last game of Lara Croft have not had the desired effect, as I had a few days ago , Eidos arises a radical change for the series, making it more casual, more designed for women ( especially for girls Egirl ). Well, in Banzaii we already have the first screenshot of what the new Lara game and its code name yet definitive: My Lara Kingdom.

The missions are now more varied ...

More details of the terrifying plans Eidos ...

Update: I'm glad to see an opinion in favor of the current style of the series. The former creative director of Tomb Raider defends the style of the series and blamed poor sales to other factors.

Spore is a very ambitious game from the creator of The Sims. While waiting to see the light in September, the guys at Maxis have released a Creature Creator to one which can be modeled as monsters. The version on the Internet is a "light" version. In the shops you can get the full editor for about 10 euros, with the advantage that money will deduct the game in September. Come on, it's like if you were a reservation but do not bring empty-handed.

And now, download it and play .

Giant bean bags get 2 Sims to be great to play consoles. You just have to answer a question in the most gracious as possible. Strip ingenuity and luck: Contest win MySims poufs ,

Lately I've been posting a lot about games. The other day I told you how to get free Xbox 360 games and how to play online for free Wii . Now I read that many game companies are putting direct download and free many of their older titles for PC

As always, the most innovative is Ubisoft. The games are released Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Far Cry and Rayman Raving Rabbids. Course, are free but carry advertising. In the same download file says "Free ad supported game," meaning free game supported by advertising. I assume that is an experiment at Ubisoft, with support from FilePlanet, since in Spain Ubisoft page is not even mentioned the subject. Click here to download the games. Have the links in the right column, just below the "What's hot".

For its part, Electronic Arts allows you to download Command & Conquer . This game is very special to me. It was the one I was hooked in my life, becoming 3 consecutive days (no nights, of course) giving up acabármelo. I think it was the end of BUP, and meant to leave then some games. It was like a large overdose of which take long to recover and return to catch a game more healthy. If you have not played ever do it. It's a great game

Finally, let you know that you can also play Sim City, another clasicazo, but this time online, without downloading the game. Click here to play.

It is curious this initiative to give away games. No other acts and entertainment industry. The music and film is not cheap even in jest, but it seems the entertainment industry is more open. It is also true that the older games worse than the music or movies.

John Riccitiello, the new EA bigwig, has to be a peculiar kind. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal picked up by vandal.net , said the industry is repetitive and getting bored to death sagas players with increasingly complicated.

"We're boring people to death and making games that are more and more difficult to play," he said, noting that the industry is based on a system of repetition, stating that "there have been many products that were seen as the product of previous year, which in turn looked almost like the year before. "

With these words, EA is criticized herself. Precisely EA is number one in video games with its great sagas, among which excel the sport, which are the EA that upheld 10 years ago. The Lord of the Rings, Burnout, Need for Speed, FIFA, NBA Live ... They have a few.

It is also true that EA is turning its policy towards a more original, which is what we demand all and what is succeeding with the Wii and Nintendo DS. Some time ago Riccitiello himself announced the restructuring of the company into four main sections: sports games, casual games, the Sims series and the challenge of titles. I hope this restructuring serves to promote originality in games like Boogie and MySims.

- Source: vandal.net .

The new Sims to arrive this fall for Wii and Nintendo DS have little to do with the PC. They are similar to Mii, Wii avatars, and the gameplay seems totalmetne different. All changes are in response to the desire of Electronic Arts to focus more on these platforms after the disappointment of the sales of PlayStation 3. By all accounts, both games will use and abuse of the new gameplay that allow both consoles.

The output Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories for PS2 was sung. It is the repetition of the strategy conducted with GTA: Liberty City Stories. Take Two has announced that the game will be available in North America on March 6, 2007 and in Europe on March 9, 2007.

With this launch strategy for PSP and then adapt the games to PS2 ... how many millions of GTA can be placed and Take Two? A 50 million do not think they've arrived yet, but will soon, because GTA San Andreas is now available in Japan with great success and GTA IV will sell much when it comes out for Xbox 360 and PS3. It certainly is a perennial best-selling and fastest in history.

Of course, to the level of sales of the Sims, Will Wright's genius is almost impossible. Any expansion so ...