With just a more than a month remaining before The Sims 3 unleashes, Electronic Arts is finally talking about how connected its highly anticipated game will be with a downloadable town, a store to buy in-game content and even personal sites to store showcase your Sims life along with posting videos from inside the game.

First, PC and Mac users will gain download a new town called Riverside, which is in addition to the one already available in the game. They'll also get $10 worth of SimPoints for use in The Sims 3 Store after registering their game. Those points will be used to purchase in-game items (clothes, furniture, etc.), that will help players customize their Sim adventure. More SimPoints can be purchased in bundles of 500, 1000 and 2000 points (an EA rep clarified with us that SimPoints bundles would be priced at $5, $10 and $20). All those downloadables, including updates, patches, community content, exchange content and other media will be accessible via the easy to cruise Game Launcher.

On the game's release date, TheSims3.com site gets a major makeover in order to better connect players to one another and give them options to have their favorite game connect to their blogs and social networking personas. Of course, over 100 million fan creations turned The Sims 2 from game to a creative tool and The Sims 3 Exchange improves the way its community interacts that content by providing better search and browse capabilities, better ways to find recommendations and more.

Best of all, players will finally get in-game tools to create their own stories with the Create a Movie tool. The tool lets them direct the angles of the cameras, capture in-game footage and even add freaky effects to create anything from horror classics, spaghetti westerns or the next Blair Witch stomach turner. Once completed, players can share their movies with fellow Sim players, embed them in other sites or use on their favorite social networking sites. Given the flood of creative juices in The Sims Community, we expect some interesting Sim-inspired movies.

The Sims 3 arrives for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and other mobile devices on June 2, 2009.