Misc News

[maniac19642003]

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

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

[maniac19642003]

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

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

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

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

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

[maniac19642003]

Holiday for Mac
Aspyr announced that Happy Holiday Stuff is now available for the Mac.
Read more info here: MacNN

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.)

[maniac19642003]

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 - Deutschland - Espana
Portugal - Italia - Sverige

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

[Sam the T-man]

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 ^_^

[maniac19642003]

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.

[maniac19642003]

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. And also it's now clear that the game will be available somewhere early next year."

[Sleepycat]

BV patch is up on the official site.

[maniac19642003]

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.

[Sam the T-man]

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! http://thesims2.ea.com/update/getpatch.php?appVersion=1.10&languageCode=

Thanks for the info Sleepycat

[Sleepycat]

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:

[maniac19642003]

Just found these pics over at snootysims.

[maniac19642003]

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

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

[maniac19642003]

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.
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
Thanks very much to Danom8Player from the Sims BBS for finding it."

[Sam the T-man]

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