I also made a video for my Mid-Century Home "Long Beach" and you can watch it here. 
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1 Jun 2013 - 18:30
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30 May 2013 - 18:30
Just wanted to let you all know that I have Dragon Valley and I will try my best to write and publish the review soon! Here's a teaser.
30 May 2013 - 18:11
Newest Digital World Now Available
Today, The Sims 3 releases The Sims 3 Dragon Valley, the newest digital world to launch from The Sims Store. In this brand new world, players will journey to a mythical realm of lore and fantasy. Once travellers arrive in Dragon Valley, they will discover a village full of towering Celtic-style architecture that rests along the banks of a gently flowing river and low rising hills.
For the first time ever, The Sims 3 Dragon Valley introduces Baby Dragons – the exclusive and premium item for the world. These dragons not only exist amongst the residents but can also be kept as pets. Players can hatch three different types of dragons, (Red, Green and Purple) and each has its own personality, mood benefits and funny fails.
The Sims 3 Dragon Valley requires The Sims 3 base game to play and is available now for digital download at The Sims 3 Store as a Standard Edition or Gold Edition. The Gold Edition comes with 1900 SimPoints and includes the Celtic Lands set featuring 10 ancient and mysterious virtual objects for players to bring into their Sims’ homes and backyards.
The Sims 3 Dragon Valley will also be available in retailers worldwide starting August 9, 2013
Visit The Sims 3 Store to view and buy The Sims 3: Dragon Valley!
29 May 2013 - 23:01
Today I attended the Island Paradise event with several other fansites, I'll list them below. Anyway. We had a blast! I often feel unsure whether or not to share the non-game pics because it may trigger jealousy in some people and that is not my intention. But I know a lot of people enjoy watching event pics as well so that's why I posted a lot of them today. I have now collected all my Instagram pics from today and put them into this post for your entertainment 
Luau anyone? Looking forward to the Sims 3 Island Paradise event! <3
Sims 3 bag FTW. :3
Okay uhm I look uhm yeah. But hey I have @tszcheetah and @swwsims with me! 
This is a Sul-Sul cocktail. Nooommmm.
Chilling... At EA.
I think this was Exotic Sunrise. At EA Island Paradise event.
This is O jaa on the beach (Woohoo on the beach).
InsideGamer E3 Award for Best Strategy Game @SimCity at EA.
Look what I have! Going to get this a nice spot in our living room! @simcity
Lol the @SimCity stuff barely fits in the train. #simcity #PromotingSimCityInPublicFTW #YouShouldHaveSeenTheStares 
My son vs. the @SimCity display. He was so excited to see this haha.
The SimCity display found a nice spot in my corner
Aaaaand changed my Sims wall a little.
So those were all the Instagram pics from today that had something to do with Sims or SimCity
Fansites:
There is an embargo on everything we've seen and learned about Island Paradise. And the embargo will end tomorrow 6pm CEST. I will try to have my article up by then. Might be later but I will do my best!
28 May 2013 - 23:32
We're going to EA tomorrow for the upcoming expansion pack Island Paradise. If you have any questions at all about this pack, ask away. Preferably through a reply on Twitter! Only questions about Island Paradise please.
26 May 2013 - 02:03
Maxis has rolled out SimCity patch 4.0 this week. This enables a few of the SimCity World features that were announced prior to release, most importantly global markets and leaderboards. The patch also provides new content in the form of a SimCity Launch Park (for early adopters of the game only) and a new region of 7 cities in one cluster. Commercial zones will now also play a more important role in Sims' happiness. Read below for the full notes and check out the accompanying blog post. The patch will automatically be installed when you next launch the game; the next big patch will be rolled out after the Mac launch at June 11th.
- New: SimCity Launch Park, an exclusive new park just for our dedicated fans who were early adopters.
- New: Region: Edgewater Bay. Seven city sites in one cluster around a beautiful bay with one great work site.
- New: Your current server will now be shown in the options menu.
- New: More detailed rollover information on buildings telling player’s if their Sims received happiness from a park or from shopping. Previous to this fix, this information was generic.
- Re-Enabled Feature: Global Market prices now dynamically change during gameplay.
- Re-Enabled Feature: Leaderboards will be active on EU West 3, Pacific 1 and Pacific 2 at the release. We will enable them on additional servers throughout the day.
- Re-Enabled Feature: Region filters are now enabled on all SimCity servers. Players will be able to search for open games by Map Name, Sandbox Mode, and Abandoned Cities.
- Rain Clouds: Fixed an issue where some cities would not have rain clouds to replenish their water table. If you had a city with this issue, you will start seeing clouds again within a game day.
- Fire: Improved response time of fire trucks to fires. Improved the time it takes for a fire signal to reach a fire station.
- Mission updates: Tuned Metals HQ and Community College missions. These were appearing too early, making them difficult to complete. They now appear later in a city’s development.
- Solar Farm Great Work: Reduced fire risk at the Solar Farm Great work. Local fire engines were spending too much time at the Solar Farm.
- Messaging: Improved pre-requisite messaging for Trade Port, Casinos, Smelting Factory and Oil Refinery. It should be clearer on how to unlock these buildings.
- Graphics: Fix for flickering low wealth buildings on NVIDIA graphics cards.
- Education: Fix for an issue some cities experienced where commuting students did not return from a neighbor’s city. This was causing a problem where students would disappear from a city in some cases.
- Tuning: Sims will lose a small amount of happiness if they don’t have a place to shop. Cities without places to shop will see complaints and feel the effect of unhappy Sims. This will emphasize the importance of commercial zones
23 May 2013 - 22:23
Kuree has posted the Package Viewer for download on Simlogical:
FIVE Main Features Why You Should Try It
- Detecting the type of packages
It will show you the type of package it has and whether it has several items doesn't matter.- Thumbnail Support
It can read your cache now. As long as the you keep your thumbnail package save and sound, you will see all you want.- Package Status Support
Red or Green block to show whether it has been disabled by the program. Full control of your packages!- Packages Outside CC Folder Support
Just tell the program where you want to inspect, and here they come!- Corrupted Package Detection Support
It will show you a bad package wherever it is.