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Source: www.gametrailers.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013Enjoy the sights of the southern shores in The Sims 3: Island Paradise.

EA is a video game publisher founded by Trip Hawkins in 1982. It is one of the largest computer game companies in the world.

Here's a statistic that defies the stereotype: according to a USA Today article, nearly half of all people who play video games are female.

It's June 13 and that means that today is the anniversary of Origin. And EA is offering up deep discounts on Origin downloads and purchases so that you can celebrate with them.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 2013 is on once again, and AusGamers is on-scene in Los Angeles, to bring you all the news from the show.

It's quite lovely. We've got an industrialized orchard system, where people come from towns far and near to harvest fruit every couple days.

Today Electronic Arts and DreamWorks Studios debuted the first behind the scenes footage from next Spring's theatrical release, the action racing film Need for Speed , based on the best-selling videogame franchise from EA.

In the great menagerie of video game publishers, Electronic Arts is the 900-pound gorilla; a $7 billion company that makes some of the biggest franchises in the business, including Madden and The Sims.

This week's SuicideGirl gamer of the week is Blu Suicide. Blu went from having to watch her brother play video games as a youngin to being quite the gamer herself.

Channelling the spirit of an unusually wholesome Game of Thrones, the latest addition to The Sims 3 adds fantasy style architecture, medieval clothing, and baby dragons under the banner of Dragon Valley.

The Sims 3: University Life opens up new opportunities, from social connections to career growth.

The Sims 3 Dragon Valley , the newest digital world to join The Sims 3 franchise, is now available for PC and Mac, Electronic Arts announced.

Holiday weekends usually mean long car rides and time with your family. Distract the kids in the backseat and make music when you're hanging out and do both on the cheap with this week's holiday batch of deals.

EA Salt Lake, the local video game developer mostly known for creating "The Sims" titles for the PC and family-oriented games for consoles such as the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3, is releasing its first title for mobile phones on Thursday.

EA CFO Blake Jorgenson recently said at the Stifel 2013 Technology Conference that the game publisher will continue to support the Xbox 360 and PS3 with game releases until 2017.

The Sims is one of the gaming sensations of the 21st century. Since the series was launched in 2000, it has spawned a host of successful sequels, and The Sims 3 is the latest and greatest of them all.