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1591. SimDay: Makin' Magic now official

Written on Thursday 31 July 2003 at 18:54 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay comes with the final confirmation of Makin' Magic. Most likely it won't change its name anymore. The initial announcement posted a couple of weeks ago officially wasn't official yet, this one is. You can read the official press release here. Along with the press release Maxis has released 3 new screenshots of the upcoming expansion pack, which are to be seen at this page. They show several new objects and a few gardening gnomes. Finally there's a link to an article at USA Weekend. They start off with the example of a mansion without smoke detectors or a phone that's on fire, which fortunately exists only in The Sims. 12 year old Alison Newell has learnt from the game:

"OK, Sam's a genius. I knew that. But young Alison, too, has learned from The Sims. When she gets older and lives on her own, she says, "I'll make sure I have a phone and smoke detector.""

The article compares The Sims with reality a bit. It's a nice read, so click here to make it show up on your screen. That's it again this week.

1592. New poll

Written on Thursday 31 July 2003 at 02:17 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Although we haven't been online too much last week, we did have a poll running. This week, as normal, we've added a new poll. We're wondering which name for the new expansion pack you like better: Makin' Magic, or Spellbound. Let us know, by voting on the right, or at this page. Last week's poll didn't get too many votes, because of our server move. Just 58 people voted. The question was: "What items for The Sims do you make and publish yourself?". 31 people voted they make nothing, 17 people went for houses/families, Objects (13), Walls (12) and Floors (11) follow after that. They're followed by Skins/Meshes (9) and roofs (8). If you add up those numbers, you'll get higher than 58: that's because you could select several options, not just one. For more poll results, click here.

1593. The Sims Double Deluxe pre-order

Written on Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 21:53 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It looks like Maxis is going for another repackaging of The Sims 1 with an expansion pack (or maybe more). At GameStop, you can now pre-order "The Sims Double Deluxe". There is no more info available yet, except that the release date is set at late October, the same time as Makin' Magic... which we might have to start calling Spellbound again. The same site says Spellbound at this page. Since the product ID is bigger than that of Double Deluxe, it's probably added a bit later. However, the name is still quite uncertain, and it could still stay Makin' Magic after all. It's confusing, but in any case: Spellbound and Makin' Magic are the same. The survey (read this) might help make the final decision, as you can choose your favourite name there. The Sims Double Deluxe's pre-order page is right here.

1594. The Sims Makin' Magic Survey

Written on Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 21:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A thing we've seemed to mist since the box-shot: it came from a survey, apparantly. It's all about The Sims, and apparantly they want to know more about your experience with The Sims and its expansion packs. They ask several questions about the new expansion pack, like whether you'll buy it or not, if you've heard about it, and what you know about it. They have several final titles that might make it: "Makin' Magic", "Spellbound" (which we've heard before), "9 to 5", "College Bound", or "Global Travels". I doubt some names will be used for Makin' Magic, but maybe they'll be used for an expansion pack for The Sims 2. You can take the survey right here. Besides all the questions, there are also some more box shots, and a couple of pictures of objects (of which you've already seen a couple on the 2 screenshots). The boxes are for the titles Makin' Magic and Spellbound (click to enlarge):


For the objects pictures, just take the survey. Thanks to both Sims Extremos and our affiliate The Sim's Stash for info about the survey.

1595. Makin' Magic box shot

Written on Sunday 27 July 2003 at 15:03 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

Our affiliate MadSims.Net has posted the box art for the new expansion, Makin' Magic. Thanks to them, who got it from Tiger, we can now show it to you too. Here it is:

1596. We're back... sort of [Update 2]

Written on Sunday 27 July 2003 at 14:36 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Our regular visitors may have noticed this site's been offline for a while since Friday. We've been transferred to a new server (according to our host it should be faster and more reliable), which is now up and running. Currently, only thesimszone.com is working, our .co.uk domain still has been updated (and will be working soon). That should be done soon, and we hope that will be working again later this week. It will be back completely by Wednesday. Unfortunately, the back-up of our database was done before the site was taken offline, so we've lost several things since the site got deleted: all member sign-ups, votes in the poll and a news post about the last SimDay have gone lost. Those who signed up Thursday or Friday might have to sign up again. Please try logging in first, if it says your username is invalid you know you have to register again. You can use the same username as before. If you're lucky you can vote in the poll again. If not, there's unfortunately nothing you can do - you'll be able to vote again in the next poll that will be posted on Thursday as usual.

We also still have a few things to set up. E-mails will arrive, but they might not arrive at the right person. Also we still need to set up a few things to get the donation files working again. There might be another few minor things to go through.

If you sent us an email recently and we haven't replied to it, or we still have to add/change your link, help you out, whatsoever, just e-mail me and I'll make sure you get the help you need.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the move and the downtime. The Sims Zone is now back and running as normal, except for the .co.uk domain not working just yet.

[Update 28 July 2003, 0:30] Our thesimszone.co.uk domain has been updated, and will be active again within 24-48 hours (depending on your ISP). It might still need some tweaking once it's up, but we should be back completely again by Wednesday. E-mails might not (properly) arrive for another 24 hours though. Please do not send us emails today, wait until 29 July. Thank you.

[Update 31 July 2003, 10:20] It's all working again now, both .co.uk and .com. We'll soon be swapping the domains back, so thesimszone.co.uk will be our main domain. Besides that I'll be making a fix to make the time show correctly again (it's 1 hour behind now). All of that should be fixed soon.

Now: on to the news that you've missed while The Sims Zone was offline, including the SimDay... Read More!

1597. New Poll

Written on Thursday 24 July 2003 at 02:32 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week we asked you if you think Makin' Magic will be worth getting. 243 People voted, and most of them - 119 (49%) - will definitly be getting the seventh expansion pack. Second place are those who definitly will not get the game, but will wait with for The Sims 2 instead (46 - 19%). Then there are those who might get it: 37 votes (15%) for those who doubt they'll buy it, unless it's very good, closely followed by the 35 people (14%) who'll check out some review before deciding on buying the expansion pack. The other who won't get it follow far behind: 4 people (2%) are done with all Sims stuff, 2 people (1%) are just sick of all the expansion packs. This week we ask you if you make and publish any items for The Sims yourself, and if so, which ones. Please let us know by voting on the right or at this page. More polls are in our archive.

1598. Sims 2 articles, shots and a movie

Written on Sunday 20 July 2003 at 00:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

There's 1 new preview, a developer diary (part 1), 2 screenshots and a new movie all of The Sims 2. Most of it comes from GameSpot, but let's first check out this preview at EuroGamer. That one's pretty much like what we've seen before. They first tell us about an old game on Commodore64, which was called "Alter Ego". Then they go on about The Sims 2. They haven't been able to play it themselves, they only got to watch a demo. That demo is a few months old now, and the review doesn't give very much news. Then there's a designer's diary, the first part of a series in which designers and developers of Maxis will tell about the progress of The Sims 2. First up is Tim LeTourneau, who talks 2 pages long about the beginning of the sequel to our favourite game... Read More!

1599. Makin' Magic Preview

Written on Saturday 19 July 2003 at 22:13 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

GameSpy has posted a preview of the seventh and final expansion pack for The Sims 1: Makin' Magic. It's not much more than an overview of the possibilites of the expansion though, and they probably weren't able to play it themselves at Camp EA. There isn't much in it that we don't know yet:

"Putting magic into the world of The Sims seems like an odd choice, but the developers are clearly aiming for the lighthearted sitcom approach of Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie, rather than the sinister direction of The Omen or The Exorcist -- so don't expect demonic little children or even kids who can projectile vomit pea soup. However, you can take your established sims, head over to a new carnival-themed destination, and take a trip to Magic Town where you'll get to perform mind-boggling tricks and unlock powerful spells."

It's a nice preview, but it doesn't add anything great. You can find it right here. Enjoy it.

1600. SimDay: is that all?

Written on Thursday 17 July 2003 at 20:54 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay isn't much: just 4 new songs from the SuperStar cd and some links. The songs released this week are 'Glabe Glarn', 'The Spa Treatment', 'Frettesche' and '8x10 Glossy'. The final 2 tracks will probably be released next week. You can download the music from this page. Besides that, there are links to articles from Camp EA. Besides IGN and GameSpot (which we reported about), there are links to screenshot pages of GameSpy. However, it seems they haven't posted anything but those screenshots. For Makin' Magic details, check out this news, Bustin' Out is in this news (GameSpot) and this news (IGN). Besides that the official site has posted the Makin' Magic 'announcement' - which apparantly isn't official ("Although not officially announced...") - last friday. It's all on the official site. That's it again this week, not much new but it's something.