For many long months, I have been the only source of Sims 3 information on the internet. Totally crazy, I know, but I saw a talk at an AI conference and apparently they weren’t really ready for that info to go to the press. I’m not really the press, so there you go, my info was out there for some of you to find.

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Today the news embargo was lifted and the official site went live. In addition there are previews at 1up, IGN, and a little bit on Gamespot. I’m sure there’s more info out there but I saw enough to know that it looks kinda interesting and that it’s not coming out for a good long while. One of the sites has the date as 12/15/2009. I can’t even begin to think that far into the future of my game purchasing plans!

I never really played the Sims 2. I got it when it first came out and it blue-screened my PC. I tried it about 3 times then gave up forever. I was kinda busy at the time. When the first Sims came out I actually played it a lot. I got really really into it for a few weeks. Maybe months even. Then I realized I was dirty and neglecting my real friends in favor of keeping my sim clean and happy. That was the end of that.

Back in 2001 I had the experience of doing some work on the path finding system for the Sims 2. I don’t know if the code I wrote for Maxis ever ended up in the shipping project but it was a great learning experience. I got to work on getting the Sims to navigate around their houses better and to deal with imminent collisions with each other as well. It was quite challenging but rather cool. But that was way early in development and I’m sure that they changed things a lot before actually shipping it out the door.

Anyways, we’ll see what more info they reveal. For now I guess everyone will have many other outlets for their Sims 3 curiosity!