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PlayStation Home (PS3)Sony says the social networking space is having one hell of a year.

PlayStation Home (PS3)Move over Farmville, Sony wants to own your Wall and Tweets.

Sony is still hard at work supporting PlayStation Home, and is planning to roll out a new update tomorrow that will add several new features. The PlayStation.Blog outlines the additions, which seem to focus on ease of use for the virtual space. This will bring Home up to version 1.35, and Sony is touting it as a "streamlined interface." The feature list includes: Favorites: Personalize your own section to make locating your [...]

The Sims are finally going to work for real. Electronic Arts has announced The Sims 3: Ambitions, the second expansion in what will undoubtedly be a long line of them. Rather than simply having Sims go to the office and disappear for the day, Ambitions fleshes out what happens in the workplace. New careers will include ghost hunter, firefighter and others, all of which will apparently contain a variety of activities, such as breakin[...]

Second full expansion to EA's PC best-seller adds career paths--both benevolent and ruthless--for players' sims to follow; iPod spin-off coming in late 2010. As has been the case with every PC Sims game, The Sims 3 was a big hit. How big? In January, Electronic Arts claims its latest life-sim was the best-selling PC game of 2009, having sold 4.5 million units in the six months after its June 2, 2009 launch. "Ma'am, I'm here to help…or am I?" [...]