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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Electronic Arts sets February launch date for Sims 3

    LEIPZIG, Germany
    Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:30am EDT
    Rod Humble of The Sims Studio gestures during the presentation for the game ''The Sims 3'' at the Electronic Arts news conference at the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles July 14, 2008. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

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    LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Video games publisher Electronic Arts (ERTS.O) set a launch date of February 20, 2009 for the latest installment of its biggest-selling franchise, the Sims, on Wednesday.

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    The firm is jostling for top spot in the global gaming industry with Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O), and had previously said the Sims 3 would appear some time in early 2009.

    In a news conference at Europe's biggest video games fair in Leipzig, Electronic Arts said the new version of the Sims would allow players greater control over the personality of the characters whose lives they control.

    In the Sims players set everything from the design of a character's apartment through to career goals and romantic life.

    Around 100 million copies have been sold since the first version was launched in 2000, with the game a hit among more casual players who would not play games from more traditional genres.

    (Reporting by David Milliken; editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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