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Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on April 06, 2007, 02:20:55 pm Pets for Wii
Gamestop has a new Sims title for pre-order: The Sims 2: Pets. This is most likely not the version with the cute characters as that title won't be out for at least 6 months. This title has a release date of June 19. Check it out here: Gamestop.com (http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=230103) New Machinima tool A press release from 'Short Fuze' announced that it has engaged machinima studio Britannica Dreams Productions to create movies using the forthcoming machinima tool, Moviestorm. According to the article, this new tool makes it much easier to make movies using the Sims 2. Read it here: Press release (http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20070405/bs_prweb/prweb516653_2) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on August 05, 2007, 02:23:51 pm Some of this news may be out there already but I saw this stuff at snootysims yesterday.
Castaway update There is a big Castaway update at thesims2.com. Information and screen shots have been posted for the Wii, PS2, NDS and PSP. Check it out here: Castaway update (http://thesims2.ea.com/about/platforms_index.php) Sims online chat Yet another chat about the Sims online took place a couple days ago. This time about the economy. Check the transcript here: Sims online chat (http://sims.stratics.com/content/dev/hoc/chat072307.php) Pre-order items The official Sims 2 site has posted info about the pre-order items you get when you buy Bon Voyage at a certain store. See the items here: Pre-orders (http://thesims2.ea.com/about/ep6_order.php) Holiday for Mac It was a known fact that Happy Holiday was coming to the Mac, but Aspyr has made it now official that this pack will be available for Mac OS X in September. Read a bit more about it here: Macworld.com (http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/02/holidaystuff/) Fashion runway The third voting for the Fashion Runway has started. This weeks presentation is Streetware and a new movie and pics have been posted. Check it out here: Fashion Runway (http://fashionrunway.sims.yahoo.com/) Title: 2 new updates Post by: maniac19642003 on September 04, 2007, 05:22:39 pm Holiday for Mac
Aspyr announced that Happy Holiday Stuff is now available for the Mac. Read more info here: MacNN (http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/09/04/the.sims.2.holiday.pack/) Teenstyle box Maxis only showed a relatively small teenstyle box on their site. The official Finnish EA site now has this box in a larger version. (pic attached here.) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on October 05, 2007, 07:00:00 pm You can't really call it a mini game, but EA did make something special for Bon Voyage. It's an interactive painting with movies, info and pics of Bon Voyage. It's available in several languages:
England (http://common.ea-europe.com/sims/uk/) - Deutschland (http://common.ea-europe.com/sims/de/) - Espana (http://common.ea-europe.com/sims/es/) Portugal (http://common.ea-europe.com/sims/pt/) - Italia (http://common.ea-europe.com/sims/it/) - Sverige (http://common.ea-europe.com/sims/se/) Castaway update The official Sims 2 site has updated their Castaway info page with new screen shots and a video. Check it here: Castaway update (http://thesims2.ea.com/about/platforms_index.php) Title: Misc News Post by: Sam the T-man on October 07, 2007, 12:34:56 pm Maniac: your link to the Moviestorm piece doesn't work. I found it myself through Google: http://www.shortfuze.co.uk/moviestorm.html
Have to say, it looks amazing. Might even help with my game-making ^_^ Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on October 07, 2007, 01:20:55 pm The info I get like that Sadie is from snootysims so if something doesn't work then its from that site cuz I don't get info from anywhere else except maybe the official site at times if I ever check there but thanks for getting a working link to that.
Title: Castaway Stories update Post by: maniac19642003 on October 09, 2007, 03:58:13 pm More stuff from snootysims.
"There is finally some news about Castaway Stories; The 3rd in the series of Sims Stories. The first pic has been revealed by German fansite Sims2Fans.de (http://www.sims2fans.de/). And also it's now clear that the game will be available somewhere early next year." Title: Misc News Post by: Sleepycat on October 09, 2007, 06:56:13 pm BV patch is up on the official site.
Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on October 09, 2007, 07:07:19 pm Quote from: Sleepycat;979723 BV patch is up on the official site. 15.93mb for 6 fixes? sheesh, good thing I don't use dial-up anymore lol. Thanks Sleepy. Title: Misc News Post by: Sam the T-man on October 09, 2007, 07:08:08 pm Actually it's not. If you follow the link you'll get a 404 error. They're just being pre-emptive I guess :dontknow:
ETA: They must've seen me coming! :lol: Hey guys, come and get it! :D http://thesims2.ea.com/update/getpatch.php?appVersion=1.10&languageCode= Thanks for the info Sleepycat :) Title: Misc News Post by: Sleepycat on October 10, 2007, 01:18:28 am your welcome :)
so many more people are aware of it being out from that launcher (I bypassed it) that I think the server is/was flaking out. so if someone is having trouble getting it, try try again :lol: Title: 4 new TeenStyle pics Post by: maniac19642003 on October 11, 2007, 07:12:40 pm Just found these pics over at snootysims.
Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on October 16, 2007, 01:44:50 pm Bon Voyage for Mac
Aspyr posted a press release that Bon Voyage will be published for the Mac. Release date is in December. Read more here: Aspyr.com (http://www.aspyr.com/software/news/86/178) EasyCheat program Simpedia posted a nice little program called EasyCheat. This program helps you entering cheats into the Sims 2 games. Find it here: Simpedia.co.uk (http://simpedia.co.uk/wiki/Official:EasyCheat) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on October 16, 2007, 07:41:09 pm Just found this as well from snootysims.
"June 6 (yes it's from some time ago, but I completely missed it), Richard Evans, senior AI engineer on The Sims 3 at EA, had a talk at AIIDE-07 (http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AIIDE/2007/aiide07schedule.php). In her blog, a woman called Tara wrote up this talk. Some very interesting info can be found in there: - Each Sim will be unique and distinct, like a Sim that hates tv. - Sims will do long term planning like he will invite his boss cause he knows it will get him promoted. - Sims will recognize when other Sims violate social norms and will then react to it. Read the whole blog here: Tara.teich.net/blog (http://tara.teich.net/blog/archives/aiide-2007-richard-evans-talks-sims-3/) Thanks very much to Danom8Player from the Sims BBS for finding it." Title: Misc News Post by: Sam the T-man on October 17, 2007, 08:29:21 am Nice! ... They'll need to get their current problems sorted out first though if they want to do well in selling it.
Thanks for the updates :) Title: Misc News Post by: Tenshii~Akari on October 17, 2007, 01:32:10 pm They'd have do a heck of a lot more to get me to touch another game of theirs anymore.
(Of course, I'd reconsider the above if all of the "missing" options for infants were suddenly available, though. :smile bi: ) Thanks for all of the updates, maniac! :angel: Title: Misc News Post by: AjaAja on October 17, 2007, 11:25:51 pm I'm not sure I'd reconsider them even if they had all the things in the game that I want... I doubt I'll ever go near anymore of their products.
They need to get kicked off their golden asses and smell the burning secorum. Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on December 17, 2007, 06:03:58 pm Bon Voyage for Mac
Aspyr sent out a press release telling that the Bon Voyage expansion pack for the Mac has been released today. Check the press release here: Aspyr.com (http://www.aspyr.com/software/news/86/191) Sims Online is 5 Today, December 17, The Sims Online celebrates its 5th birthday! Well there's not much to celebrate cause the game kinda failed, but it's still alive. And the game is under big construction right now by people like Luc Barthelet. See more about that here: TSO-E (http://www.tso-e.com/blog/) SecuROM removal tool A bit late, but I still like to give attention to it; For those afraid of SecuROM, Maxis posted a removal tool on their website. There's a version for every expansion/simgame that came with SecuROM. Download it here: SecuROM removal tool (http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=341) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on December 22, 2007, 05:29:22 pm Castaway for mobile
The UK Sims site has added an info page for Castaway for the mobile phones. There's a bit of info and 4 screen shots to be found there. Check it here: Thesims2.co.uk (http://www.thesims2.co.uk/products.view.asp?id=75) Thanks to Simtimes.de (http://www.simtimes.de/) for this news. Sims Christmas tunes The Sims2.com has added a nice Christmas tune as a way of holiday greetings from the Sims team. The Brazilian Sims site has posted another Christmas tune. This tune however has a long bit of silence at the beginning. Fansite Thesims2.co.za has edited this file and posted it without this beginning. This file is also much smaller. Check all links below: - Seasons greetings (http://thesims2.ea.com/getcoolstuff/music.php) - Brazilian sims site (http://www.thesims2.br.ea.com/files.list.asp) - Thesims2.co.za music file (http://www.thesims2.co.za/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,317/Itemid,737/) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on January 14, 2008, 01:57:09 pm Just saw this at snootysims:
The French SimsStories site had a big update on Castaway Stories. 15 New screen shots, a (French) description and a trailer has been posted. Check it here: French SimsStories site (http://www.lessims-histoires.fr/ProductsView.aspx?id=9703) Thanks to Thesims2.co.za (http://www.thesims2.co.za/) for this news. Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on January 14, 2008, 06:10:50 pm Found this info just now as well:
It's far away from an official announcement but The Sims team is currently working on My Sims 2. This is discovered on one of the job pages from EA. Check it here: Jobs.ea.com (http://jobs.ea.com/pljb/global_jsp/applicant/DisplayJob/JobDetails.jsp?display=1&pljbHome=/ElectronicArts/United_States/applicant/index.jsp&id=6292). There are actually a lot of job openings for the Sims Division, but other then the mentioned one, it never states for which game. Sims 3, a new Sims Stories game, a new mobile game, who knows. This one looks quite interesting though: Jobs.ea.com 2 (http://jobs.ea.com/pljb/global_jsp/applicant/DisplayJob/JobDetails.jsp?display=1&pljbHome=/ElectronicArts/United_States/applicant/index.jsp&id=6279) Title: Fan event reports Post by: maniac19642003 on January 16, 2008, 04:06:23 pm For those wondering "Where are the reports and screen shots from the Free Time fan events?"; Well apparently, they are all on hold until coming Tuesday (January 22nd). On that day there will be a flood of Free Time information from probably dozens of fan sites all at once.
The dutch fan day is ON the 22nd, so the reports from the dutch fan sites will be posted several days later. Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on February 13, 2008, 03:40:07 pm Bon Voyage patch
The second Bon Voyage patch has been released. It's strangely enough not to be found on the Sims2.com however. For those that can't wait, get it here: Gamershell.com (http://www.gamershell.com/news/45554.html) New release dates EA released some info about new Sims games. Sim Animals is given a release date of March 2009. MySims on Wii and DS sold very well; More then 3 million units. And so it's also coming to the PC with a release date of November 2008. Also, 2 more MySims games for Wii/DS are announced: MySims Kingdoms ( November 2008 ) and MySims Party ( February 2009 ). Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on February 21, 2008, 08:48:07 pm Several European Sims sites have posted a new car download. It's a Montgomery Hawker from the Burnout Paradise game.
Check it out here: Car download (http://www.desims2.nl/pages.view_page.asp?id=402) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on February 22, 2008, 09:46:37 pm Sims merchandise
The Sims2.com added a new section with Sims merchandise. Here you can order items with the Sims logo like T-Shirts and caps. Check it out here: Sims merchandise (http://ea.seenon.com/index.php?v=ea-thesims) Sims team asks for input MaxoidDrea posted a message on the Sims BBS from the Sims Team. They ask for stories from Sims players how the game influenced their life. Also she mentions a 'huge announcement from the Sims team'. Read more here: MaxoidDrea message (http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=7276c743890bd8dcffa306efd39bd5af&directoryID=2&startRow=1&hideFramework=true&openItemID=item.2,item.43,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23) Title: Misc News Post by: MaryH on February 24, 2008, 05:45:11 pm 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. Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on February 27, 2008, 04:08:57 pm 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 (http://www.primagames.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780761559078) 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 (http://pc.ign.com/articles/855/855120p1.html) - Gamezone (http://pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r34261.htm) Site update The first FreeTime updates have been added. The FreeTime cheat is added in the Cheats section (http://www.snootysims.com/cheatsindex.php?id=cheats) and a Genie info page in the Infocenter here: Genie wishes (http://www.snootysims.com/infoindex.php?id=genie) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on March 26, 2008, 04:17:45 pm 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 (http://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 (http://www.snootysims.com/logos/TheSims3-logos.zip) 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 (http://thesims2.ea.com/help/index.php?pid=Help) Title: Misc News Post by: maniac19642003 on April 30, 2008, 03:30:05 pm 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 (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1655) 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 (http://ea-land.ea.com/blog/) Title: Sims2.com news Post by: maniac19642003 on May 06, 2008, 02:17:56 pm 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 (http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.225,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23&threadID=392b7702076df0c4773b64e5a38a78d2&directoryID=131&startRow=1#263e394f673286182965ef6a718dc1bd) 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 (http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.225,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23&threadID=392b7702076df0c4773b64e5a38a78d2&directoryID=131&startRow=1#99d219a851c2a07d27c989b979ddac5d) 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 (http://inquisite.ea.com/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.dll?idx=Z74REM) |