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Join us for a LIVE chat and Q&A about The Sims 3 Showtime with The Sims 3 Senior Game Designer Aaron Conners! With The Sims 3 Showtime, live the rags to riches story with your Sims as a singer, acrobat, magician… and moonlight as a DJ – available March 2012.

Get an exclusive, live preview of The Sims 3 Showtime. Aaron will unveil the different ways for your Sims to rise to fame, share the all-new SimPort feature, and answer your questions during the live Q&A.

Hashtag your tweets with #TS3Showtime during the live chat for a chance to score random giveaways!

Save-the-date: Thursday – January 26th, 2012 beginning at 10:00AM Pacific Standard Time (18:00 GMT)
Log onto http://www.ea.com/1/the-sims-3-showtime-live-chat

Become the star of the show in The Sims 3 Showtime. Perform tricks and sing your way to fame in Starlight Shores, an all-new world that showcases your Sims’ hidden talents as they go from small town heroes to larger than life performers.

As a magician, your Sim begins their career on the streets performing magic tricks for tips. They’ll visit new venues and meet with the owners to book larger gigs and gain experience. Magicians have unique social interactions that give them the ability to perform small-scale tricks on other Sims such as pulling a coin from an ear and making butterflies and doves magically appear. As magicians level up, they acquire new objects that can be used on-stage. For some magical fun, your Sims can use the Box of Mystery to perform the “swords of destiny” by carefully placing knives through the box without stabbing the Sim inside. Beware the Box of Danger! If a Sim fails at correctly executing their tricks with this object, death may come calling.

Singers are unique in the game as they can accept paying jobs such as performing singing telegrams to gain experience. Singing telegrams are also a social feature, and the types of jobs your Sims will receive will directly correlate to the happenings around town. If a Sim in town has just lost their job, cheer them up. If it’s a Sim’s birthday, sing them a song. Like the other careers, singers can also take their talents to the public performing for tips in parks and local hang-outs. As singers progress, stage props, costumes and new songs will be unlocked to help them look the part and sing a variety of tunes. Singers will want to make it to the top to star in their very own big venue concert.

In addition, all careers – acrobat, magician and singer –will unlock special objects and outfits directly relating to that career. All outfits can be customised in Create a Sim to match the look of the venue and stage for your Sim’s performance. Also, all careers are able to participate in SimFest – a giant talent show for acrobats, magicians and singers to compete against one another in town. For Sims who particularly love a challenge, a new dual interaction is available in-game for Sims to compete against one another outside of SimFest.

The Sims 3 Showtime is currently available for pre-order*. While supplies last, all pre-orders will be upgraded to the Limited Edition expansion pack which includes an added venue and stage for players to place in their world. This stage is fully customisable, using the in-game backgrounds, lighting, props and special effects.

For more information on The Sims 3 Showtime, please visit www.thesims.com/showtime, like the game on Facebook and follow the game on Twitter

*Conditions and restrictions apply. See http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea/en_GB/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.850300/productID.241940500 for details.

Thanks to EA Netherlands we can now announce we'll have a Skype session with the Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff producer on January 19, 2012. If you have any questions, please let us know in this topic on our forums!

We've been invited to the Sims 3 Showtime producer tour in Germany on February 8, thanks to EA Netherlands. Obviously we are looking forward to this event. :woot:

Is there anything you would like to know? If this is the case, head over to our forums and post your questions in this topic!