The Sims 3 Updates

Electronic Arts celebrates aluminum anniversary of virtual life game by touting sales figures; franchise revenues total $2.5 billion.

Citing internal data and external stat trackers, publisher claims sandbox life simulator was best-selling desktop title worldwide last year.

Australian games industry worth more than A$2 billion last year; Wii Fit top-selling game of 2009.

Zelda: Spirit Tracks barely misses the top 10 as Scribblenauts, New Super Mario Bros. DS, and Mario Kart DS return to top 20; The Sims 3 dominates PC best-sellers.

Modern Warfare 2, Sims 3 top sellers as domestic physical game hardware, software, and accessory sales slip 8 percent; PC software slides 23 percent to $538 million; DS sells 11M, Wii hits 9.6M.

[UPDATE 3] Slow holiday sales force publisher to reduce earnings forecast; BioWare confirms sci-fi MMORPG won't arrive until early next year; Sims' return to consoles and "innovative new take on Madden" due out this year.

God of War Collection makes appearance at bottom of Nintendo-dominated top 20 non-PC game chart; Modern Warfare 2 tops PC charts despite server controversy, Aion plummets.