Misc News
MaryH:
Today there was an article about EA doing a hostile bid on another gaming company-the "Grand Theft Auto" producers, in the NY Times-seems as though that company involved does NOT want to be taken over by EA, citing the fact that EA has "killed the goose that laid the golden egg" far too many times for the bid to be taken seriously. In fact, there was a opinion in that piece that if EA actually succeeds in taking over that company, most of the creative staff will walk out rather than work for EA under any conditions.
Does not look good for the acquisition or EA's reputation. Now we know where all of our hard-spent money is going-to buy other companies so they can destroy them, too.
maniac19642003:
Snootysims update:
Prima guide
Prima has fixed the FreeTime guide and can now be safely downloaded. They also posted a preview of the guide of several pages.
Check it here and choose 'Try it out': FreeTime guide
First reviews
Gaming sites are slowly adding their FreeTime revies. IGN gave it a good 8.3 and Gamezone a decent 7. Check the links below:
- IGN
- Gamezone
Site update
The first FreeTime updates have been added. The FreeTime cheat is added in the Cheats section and a Genie info page in the Infocenter here: Genie wishes
maniac19642003:
8th Expansion pack
A few days ago, an online shop posted a Sims title called Apartment Life. Now this title has been renamed to 8th Expansion. So this means that now we have officially an un-official announced 8th expansion pack for The Sims 2.
Thanks to Infinitesims.com for this news.
Sims 3 logos
EA has released the official logos for The Sims 3 game. A Sims 3 logo, the Sims 3 plumbob and the sims 3 with plumbob as background. All in very high quality. Can be very handy for those with a Sims 3 site or if you like to make wallpapers.
Download it here: Sims 3 logos
PrimaGuide preview
The offical Sims 2 site has updated with a preview of both the Bon Voyage and the FreeTime primaguide.
Check it here: Prima previews
maniac19642003:
Rockpapershotgun posted a very big interview with Rod Humble. He talks about many things, like Sims 3 how time is a bit extended, about that he likes Open for Business so much, peeing jokes in the Sims and much more.
Read the interview here: Rockpapershotgun
The Sims Online has been struggling from the beginning. Luc Barthelet tried to revive it and not long ago, this project was renamed to EA Land.
But now, the end has finally come. As of April 29, no more paying subscriptions can be taken and on August 1st, the project will be completely shut down.
Read more about it here as well as a letter from Luc and the EA Land team: EA Land blog
maniac19642003:
In the Sims BBS, in a topic where people complain about the lack of news, MaxoidDano responds with the message that they are very busy with Sims 3, but they promise to post something on Monday.
However, that message was posted May 1st and nothing new was posted yesterday.
Read this message here: MaxoidDano message
In another message, MaxoidShannon writes that this week, the Sims Team will post an Apartment Life picture. So this may be the thing MaxoidDano was referring to.
Read this message here: MaxoidShannon message
Lastly, there is currently a survey on TheSims2.com. It contains questions about what your opinion is about the site like give a number to quotes like "Providing information on new games" and "A central point to get all my Sims information". No surprise I gave pretty low numbers to these.
Go fill in this survey here: Sims2.com survey
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