Songs Re-Recorded in Official Language of The Sims for Expansion Pack
to Award Winning Game, The Sims 3
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- It's time to turn up the volume! The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts
Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced the chart-topping artists whose
Simlish songs will be featured in The Sims(TM) 3 Ambitions
Expansion pack* for the PC and Mac this summer. Artists include Rise
Against with their sizzling hit 'Savior' which was featured in The
Sims 3 Ambitions trailer, new-comer Charice who recently performed
for Oprah and Lady Antebellum with their number one hit single 'Need You
Now.' Additionally, the members of Lady Antebellum were created as Sims
for a musical video trailer also being released today.
"Each time we set out to create a soundtrack for an expansion pack, it's
always exciting matching the vibe of the game to the music by our
incredible lineup of extremely diverse artists," said Robi
Kauker, Audio Director for The Sims Studio at EA. "It's fun
hearing hit tracks in the language of The Sims, and I think fans
will be pleased to find their favorites songs and artists throughout
this game, and will no doubt discover new bands to follow in The Sims
3 Ambitions."
Current artists and songs featured in the game include:
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Lady Antebellum--"Need You Now"
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Rise Against--"Savior"
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Charice--"Pyramid"
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Melanie Fiona--"Bang Bang"
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Toni Braxton--"Make My Heart"
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Neon Trees--"Animal"
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V V Brown--"Shark In The Water"
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Daisy Dares You--"Number One Enemy"
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OK Go--"This Too Shall Pass"
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Old 97's--"Early Morning"
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Murder By Death--"As Long As There is Whiskey In The World"
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The Acorn--"Restoration"
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Mike Posner--"Cooler Than Me"
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Violent Soho--"Jesus Stole My Girlfriend"
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Kerli--"Tea Party"
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Eli "Paperboy" Reed--"Come And Get it"
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Hal Linton--"Lock My Heart Down"
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Radney Foster And The Confessions--"Until It's Gone"
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The Constellations--"Setback"
As the second expansion pack to The Sims 3, the best-selling PC
game of 2009**, The Sims 3 Ambitions allows players to
pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims' lives that
in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. In The
Sims 3 Ambitions, players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits
as the ghost hunter, invent brilliant and potentially destructive
gadgets as an inventor, craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor, and
solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with
dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. For the first time,
players will be in charge of how their Sims' career progresses and
decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors or
technical affairs, climb to the top quickly, or be a slacker. The future
of a Sims' success or failure is entirely in the hands of the player.
The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion pack for the PC and Mac will ship
to retailers worldwide the week of June 1, 2010. The Sims 3 Ambitions will
also be available for feature phones, iPhone(R) and iPod touch(R) in late
2010 from EA Mobile(TM). These versions will have customized mobile
gameplay features and music playlists which will be revealed in the
coming months. For information on carrier availability and pricing for
all EA Mobile games, please visit www.eamobile.com.
For more information about The Sims 3 Ambitions or The Sims 3,
please visit www.TheSims3.com.
Developed by The Sims Studio, The Sims 3 Ambitions is
rated T for Teen by the ESRB. To download artwork, please visit www.info.ea.com.
*Requires The Sims 3 for PC/MAC to play.
**According to NPD data.
About The Sims
The Sims(TM), the groundbreaking franchise that allows players to
create and live a virtual, simulated life on a computer, celebrates its
ten year anniversary in 2010 with an impressive more than 125 million
units sold since its launch in February 2000. Now translated into 22
different languages and available in 60 different countries, The Sims
has quickly become a universal gaming and cultural phenomenon. Since its
June 2009 launch, The Sims 3 has sold more than 5 million copies
worldwide to date and was the #1 best-selling PC title for 2009 in North
America and Europe. Fan intensity is evidenced through the 130 million
downloads of player created content including: Sims, houses, stories and
more. The Sims 3 community site, www.thesims3.com,
welcomes up to four million unique visitors monthly, handles 300 content
downloads every minute and more than 2 million uploads have been made to
date, including 20 movies each hour. The Sims 3 YouTube Channel
is within the top 10 most viewed sponsored channels of all time with
more than 29 million video views. Visit The Sims 3 official
website to see what the players are creating at www.TheSims3.com
or the official YouTube Channel for The Sims at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSims.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in
1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless
devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA MobileTM
and POGOTM. In fiscal 2010, EA posted GAAP net revenue of
$3.7 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million units.
EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com.
More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can
be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
SOURCE: Electronic Arts Inc.
EA Play Label
Brooke Bauguess, 310-754-7312 (Senior PR Manager)
bbauguess@ea.com
Angie Newman, 650-628-2877 (PR Manager)
anewman@ea.com
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