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I've found  screenshots since last issue, showing such things as a hen party, a whoopee cushion, Sims watching themselves on the TV, a Sim sneaking out, water-based garden fun, a bunk bed, a sandpit, a futuristic spiral staircase and furniture, and more. Go to the Screenshots tab to view them all - you'll find them in the updates of Saturday 14th May, Friday 13th May, Saturday 7th May, Wednesday 4th May, Tuesday 3rd May 2011 and Thursday 28th April.
 > The Sims 3 Generations Screenshots

IGN has posted a video preview of The Sims 3 Generations (the link below the video player came with the embed code):

EA UK has posted a feature focusing on adults on their The Sims 3 Facebook page:

When you play as an Adult in The Sims 3 Generations you’ll get to experience all the joys of finally growing up to be a young adult, as well as some of the rocky years as a Sim confronts older age. Here’s a peek at some of the brand new features and content that will make playing as an Adult more fun -and challenging- than ever before!

> “The Sims 3 Generations – Adults!” at The Sims 3 (UK) on Facebook

EA UK has released a The Sims 3 Generations producer video, in which some of the developers talk about the expansion:

GameSpot has posted a new hands-on preview of The Sims 3 Generations, focusing on kids and teenagers:

We figured we’d seen the last of our teen’s happy days and sent her off to bed. Yet, the very next morning, the phone suddenly rang to reveal that the parents of our family had just won a fabulous sweepstakes vacation for adults only, leaving our teenager in charge of the house.

> “The Sims 3: Generations Exclusive Hands-On Preview – Kids on Facebook” at GameSpot

UK retailer GAME has posted an interview with The Sims 3 Generations producer Graham Nardone:

Would you say The Sims 3: Generations was all about life experiences?

Yeah! The Sims 3: Generations, at its core, is all about bringing it back to being about the Sims. It’s this rich spectrum of life experiences across all the age ranges and really seeing how it impacts their lives, and what experiences it takes the Sims through. For us it is really cool to be able to have this opportunity to give this to the community because we have never done this experience for an expansion before. We are really excited to see how people respond to that because it is a great way for you to relate to your Sims and take them through entirely new experiences.

Click below, scroll down until you find the “Interviews” tab, then click the “Read more” link at the bottom right of the box:
 > “The Sims 3 Generations” at GAME

I’ve found a Q&A with The Sims 3 Generations assistant producer Ryan Vaughan on GameSpot - it was actually posted before last issue was sent, so I’m sorry I didn’t find it sooner:

GS AU: How much of the content in The Sims 3: Generations comes from the design team, and how much is driven by community feedback?

RV: With every new expansion pack, we sit down as a studio and plan out what new gameplay features and ideas we want to offer our fans. We spend time reading the forums and listening to the wishes of the community so we can offer them something they’ll really love and also something we want to offer them.

  > “The Sims 3: Generations Q&A” at GameSpot

GameSpot has posted a new The Sims 3 Generations preview focusing on teenagers:

Generations will give your teens the opportunity to socialize with the other kids in the neighborhood at parties. If they’re lucky, their parents may take an adults-only vacation, leaving the teens at home on the honor system–which logically leads to the expansion’s new house party system. With it, teens can invite their friends over by phone and use the new “break up party” social to quickly shoo all their guests out of the house before the cops come.

> “The Sims 3: Generations Updated Preview – Teenagers Revealed” at GameSpot

Strollers

• Adults now have the ability to cart their Toddlers and Babies around in
  Strollers!
  • Found in Buy mode, you can purchase two different Strollers: The Twinbrook
    Roller and the Air-Strol LX
  • Adults can store Strollers in their inventory and will automatically choose
    to push Toddlers or Babies in them during situations in which they would usually
    carry them.

> “Generations Lets You Be a Kid in Sims 3″ at Gamers Daily News

IGN has posted a new The Sims 3 Generations preview focusing on childhood:

There are also new costume trunks, where kids can dress up as a T-rex, an astronaut or a prince or princess, plus tons of new outdoor equipment, including two new sandboxes, two hopscotch courts, and a bunch of new playground equipment like slides and swings.

> “The Sims 3: Generations Reverts to Childhood” at IGN