The Sims 3: Showtime

The Sims 3: Showtime is the sixth expansion pack for The Sims 3. It will be released on March 6, 2012.

Description
''Live the rags to riches story with your Sims while connected to your friends! Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. And for the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces social features, including Passport, an all-new feature that lets you send your Sims to a friend’s game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend’s venue in front of your friend’s Sims! You will also be able to chat with friends and post messages and screenshots on your friends’ walls.''

Features

 * Your Sims can live the dream as Singers, Performers, Magicians, and DJs. Watch them rise to fame—or go down in flames as they perform for other Sims.
 * All-new social features: chat with friends, post to their walls, give status updates, and create friends lists.
 * Send your Sims to a friend’s game and have your friend’s Sim come to your game with the new Simport feature!
 * Create your own venue! Build a swanky concert hall, a massive stadium, or an indie club. How the stage is built will influence your Sims’ performance and career progression.
 * Get a bonus venue and stage for your Sims to perform in the Limited Edition!
 * New traits and Lifetime Wishes give players more tools to tell their stories the way they want to
 * A Whole New World: The new Expansion pack includes a brand new world called Starlight Shores, with new venues and new objects to hone Sims’ talent at and rise to success
 * Book or Host Gigs: Using the innovative SimPort feature, send your Sims to a friend’s game or book friend’s Sims for a gig in their game
 * Be Connected: Make new friends, connect, and share your stories and experiences without ever leaving the game. Using the new individual in-game news feeds and live updates, post your Sims’ successes, share gameplay techniques, create wishlists and gifts, search for new friends and share memories.
 * New Achievement System: Earn rewards for achieving goals and accomplishing special challenges that can be tracked and shared via in-game social wall posts. New achievements will be introduced on a regular basis.
 * 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.
 * New neighborhood: Starlight Shores
 * New careers
 * Acrobat
 * ''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. 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.''
 * Magician
 * Singer


 * New skills
 * DJ booth


 * New Death
 * Death by Magic

Images
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Videos
Video:The Sims 3 Showtime Expansion? |The Sims 3: Showtime (leaked concept trailer) Video:THE SIMS 3 SHOWTIME trailer (EN)|The Sims 3: Showtime announcement trailer

Music
This is a list of artists and their songs that are to be featured in Showtime:
 * Unconfirmed songs

Trivia

 * Showtime will also come bundled with The Sims 3 base game.
 * There will be a Closed Beta of Showtime from January 13th - 21st.
 * The Announcement Trailer for Showtime is the first trailer for a Sims 3 game to NOT feature a song in Simlish, and instead uses the original English version of Firework by Katy Perry.
 * There is a exclusive collectors edition for Showtime called The Sims 3: Showtime - Katy Perry Collector's Edition. Amazon has listed the product and it is also releasing on the same date as the expansion pack.
 * Collector’s Edition: Enjoy The Sims 3 Showtime Expansion pack and an Ultimate Stage bonus venue plus special Katy Perry themed iconic content including fashions, a guitar, a hairstyle, and various stage props plus an exclusive Katy Perry poster


 * There is a live chat for the expansion pack on Janurary 26 at 10am PST. It shows demonstration of the expansion pack and a Q&A session afterwards.