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1561. Loads of Bustin' Out shots
Written on Saturday 11 October 2003 at 01:29 by
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The
official UK site has been busy posting a lot of screenshots of The Sims Bustin' Out the past few days. There are new shots of the PS2/GC/XBox versions, and also a few of the GBA edition. The 2 new GBA shots can be found
here. The other screenshots are split up on 2 pages. The latest batch of 8 pictures is
right here, the other batch - another 8 shots of which 6 brand new ones - are on
this page. Bustin' Out is expected to be released in December, just a bit more than a week before Christmas, on PlayStation2, GameCube and X-box, and a special edition on the GBA (which will be able to be linked with other GBAs or the GameCube version of the game). For now you'll have to enjoy the screenshots.
1562. SimDay
Written on Saturday 11 October 2003 at 00:31 by
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A bit later than usual (due to problems with my internet connection), but here's the SimDay post anyway. This week we've got a couple of links, another chat (that has been last night) with Luc Barthelet about "Sexy Sims and ?!?". Over 350 people joined the chat and the transcripts will be posted soon. There's also something about Makin' Magic going gold, which we discussed
earlier. There are also several links to articles at other sites...
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1563. Makin' Magic goes Gold
Written on Wednesday 8 October 2003 at 12:26 by
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With just 2 weeks to go before Makin' Magic is released, the final expansion pack has gone gold (i.e. it's in production now). It will definitely be released on 28 October in the US, and a few days later (31 October) in Europe - just in time for halloween. If you want more info about this expansion pack, check out the
Game Info page at the
Official site. You can read more in
this press release. You can find two new screenshots (one with a lot of snakes, another with some dressing up) at
SimsZone.de. If you can't find them, look for "Hokus Pokus" on the right and scroll down to the screenshots.
1564. New Sims 2 Media
Written on Tuesday 7 October 2003 at 00:01 by
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With thanks to
SimsZone.de (again), we can give you some new Sims 2 material. The first is another trailer, which shows some in-game material we've seen quite a few times before. There's a three-story house, with a party in it which results in a fight. There's some love and lightning in a hot tub and of course the Sims 2 and EA Games logos. We've mirrored the trailer and it's available in 2 versions: High quality (4.3 Mb) and Low Quality (1.1 Mb). In both cases you'll need
QuickTime to watch it:
Click here to download the High Quality version
Click here to download the Low Quality version
Warning! As webmaster, DO NOT link directly to these files, but upload them to your own server. Hot linking like that will result in the removal of these files from our servers.
SimsZone.de also uploaded a few new screenshots and one concept of art. Go to their site, and visit the "Screenshots" page under "Die Sims 2". There you can find all the screenshots (newest at the bottom).
1565. Even more Sims 2 screenshots
Written on Friday 3 October 2003 at 23:48 by
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Like several times before,
SimsZone.de has proven to be an excellent source for screenshots and information. And again: they've posted 3 new screenshots of The Sims 2 from a German games magazine. Although the quality isn't very great, the images are nice to look at. The quality is much lower than the final game will be - older images show that. To see the screenshots, go to the homepage of SimsZone.de and scroll down a bit, or go to their
Sims 2 screenshots section.
1566. 'Improved' TSO version in retail soon
Written on Friday 3 October 2003 at 23:35 by
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The Sims Online is in the news again: on the player website, players of TSO can read that at 28 October Maxis will release a new retail version of The Sims Online (which will have 3 instead of 2 cd's). All current players have downloaded the improvements over the time they've played, but buying the new package will be better for new players as they won't have to download all the updates to be able to play the game. A lot of new features have been added to the game since the release, and before the end of the month Maxis will have added service NPCs, jobs and pets to the game (so they promise). Other features, like clothing racks, death and secure trading, are already available. Of course current players will be asked to update even before the release so they can enjoy the new content very soon (some of it is already available in Test Center). If TSO is indeed released by the end of this month in Europe, then most likely it'll be the new 3-cd package. However, nothing has been confirmed about that yet (even the EU release date is officially not yet announced).
1567. SimDay: More articles
Written on Thursday 2 October 2003 at 22:33 by
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It's SimDay again, which means new links from the official site. This week: a chat with Dr. Vu (about SimCity 4 (Deluxe) and the Rush Hour expansion pack), some links, and The Sims Double Deluxe download pack #3. To start with the last thing: the third and final download pack of Double Deluxe is now available in a package of 1.74 Mb. It contains, tables, fountains, wallpapers, and more. You need at least Vacation, Unleashed or Superstar to be able to use the objects. They're already included in The Sims Double Deluxe, in case you bought that. You can download it (and the previous 2 packs) from
Get Cool Stuff at the
official site...
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1568. Bustin' Out Clip
Written on Wednesday 1 October 2003 at 00:01 by
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"The Sims are Bustin' Out of the House" is how a new movie of Bustin' Out starts. It's a trailer which shows many of the new features, objects and interactions in about 1 minute. It has some images we've seen in earlier movies, but also quite a few brand new things. The game will be released 16 December in the US, and 3 days later in Europe, on PS2, GameCube, GBA and X-Box. The PS2 version will have online support, while the GameCube and GBA versions will have connectivity options between each other which will allow exchanging objects and interactions. To download the trailer, which is close to 6 Mb,
click here. Thanks to WorthPlaying for releasing it. You'll need
QuickTime to play the video, after extracting it with
WinZip or a similar program.
1569. New Makin' Magic Shots
Written on Tuesday 30 September 2003 at 23:33 by
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GameSpot has posted 8 new screenshots of Makin' Magic. 2 of them are renders (one of them is shown below), the rest are regular shots. To see GameSpot's screenshots, including the older ones they posted,
click here.
1570. New Sims 2 Screens
Written on Sunday 28 September 2003 at 22:21 by
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Yet again,
SimsZone.de has posted a few new screenshots of The Sims 2. One is a film strip which contains several (including old) screenshots. There's a second one which shows the Create-A-Sim screen screen in the game (which isn't the separate program that will be released before the game's released). Although the shots are pretty big, they're both nice to see. Visit
SimsZone.de where you can find the screenshots at the front page. For those shots and more, visit their
screenshot index. The film-strip can be found under "Filmstreifen", the other one is between the rest of the screenshots.