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751. SimDay

Written on Friday 15 April 2005 at 03:18 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

This week's Simday is a small one. There are links to the IGN interview about Nightlife, and two mailing lists: The Sim Insider and the Sims 2 Scoop. With these mailing lists you can stay up to date with the latest news on the Sims 2, and the Sims 2 Nightlife. Finally, iFilm has featured the Strangerhood. You can see the feature and rate the trailer and first episode of the show.

Other than that, there's a new ShiShi Frou Frou Fu Lion by MaxoidMonkey. It's an ancient, Chinese statue, that you can put in your game for decoration. The April Fool's scissors have also been reuploaded, but it's unsure if anything has changed. There's also a new poll on the official site, and members got an e-mail announcing a spring cleaning on the exchange. Maxis is preparing to clean out the database again, and you are asked to help by cleaning up your own MySim page. That means you should clean up your guestbook, and delete double or unwanted uploads from the exchange.

[Update 19:50] With thanks to Martin, we've updated the links to the mailing lists.

752. Poll Results

Written on Wednesday 13 April 2005 at 00:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As you can see, we closed the last poll a little early last night. That was due to the first Sim Brother poll, that is now up. Still, 321 people voted over the weekend, and most people expect Nightlife to be similar but different enough from Hot Date. 116 People (36%) chose that option, over "It does sound similar" (27%) and "I bet it'll be exactly the same" (21%). Fourth was the option saying they sound quite different (5%), "Nightlife? Hot Date?" got 4%, exactly as many as "No way! They're completely different names!" "No, I bet it'll be entirely different" got the final 2.5% of the votes. See the results here and for the upcoming weeks, remember to vote for the Sim Brother polls. Currently you can vote who should be House President: Alyssa or John. You can vote once every 12 hours this time, so you can cast multiple votes, if you come back here regularly.

753. Nightlife at E3

Written on Tuesday 12 April 2005 at 14:02 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The E3 (Electonic Entertainment Expo) is closing in on us again, with just over a month to go now. Shwo areas at the biggest exposition for game developers and publishers in the world have been sold out much quicker than ever before, which makes this to be a promising edition. Especially for fans of Maxis, as Spore, Will Wright next game, has already been said to be at the E3. Besides that, IGN has revealed the second expansion pack for the Sims 2, Nightlife, will also be shown on the E3. It's not sure whether a new edition of the console game will be announced any time soon, to be shown at the E3, but unconfirmed rumours of the Urbz 2 do exist. IGN's list of games to be shown at E3 - games that have definitely been confirmed that is - can be seen at the Big E3 List 2005. That list is updated daily, so more games will be added in the near future, until the E3 starts at 17 May. The Conferences are from 17-19 May this year, while the actual expo is held from 18-20 May.

754. Sim Brother 4 - Cat's Eyes #1

Written on Sunday 10 April 2005 at 23:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Sim Brother 4 is more this year. This time, expect a weekly extra editorial about the happenings in the house. Every Sunday the reports will be summarised and analysed, and then be talked about from a different perspective. In the "Cat's Eyes" series you can look at Sim Brother 4 with a different eye. The first issue, discussing what possibly is the most important day of the series, and the second day is up to be read now. And come back later tonight for the usual Sim Brother report too!

Read Cat's Eyes #1

755. 5 Million Visitors

Written on Sunday 10 April 2005 at 20:20 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

It's been a while since we launched, and in that time we've grown and become more popular. That's shown by our visitor statistics, that you can see at the right-top of pages at the Sims Zone. And since we've been counting our number of visitors since 2 February 2002, we have already had 5,000,000 - that's 5 Million! - visits to this site. The last million of these 5 took place in the past few months, meaning that our popularity has dramatically increased since the Sims 2 was released. Of course we are very pleased with reaching this milestone, and we hope that we'll at least double this number a few times in the future. For now, expect a few special things from our creators in the very near future. Thank you for helping us reaching this milestone!

756. SimDay

Written on Saturday 9 April 2005 at 18:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A little later than usual, this SimDay report. There are a few things on the official site since earlier this week. Of course there's the Nightlife Announcement and a link to the GameSpy interview. Other than that there are three things exclusive to the official site. The first is a new Nightlife theme for MySims Pages. To set yours to this new theme, go to the Modify Theme page. This is the ninth theme available for MySim pages, making them more and more varied. There are 4 new small artworks on those MySim pages from Nightlife. You can see them below.

Besides that, Maxis has opened a new BBS section. In the Challenges & Contests BBS you can discuss challenges like the Legacy Challenge, make up and showcase your own challenges or contests and more. And Maxis is already doing so, by holding another new contest. With the "Nightlife Styles" contest you can get your creation included in the expansion pack. Two outfits will win: one male and one female outfit. These will be included in the expansion, and the winners will win a pack signed by the Maxis team. These outfits must be created with the Body Shop, and you can submit up to three outfits. As usual you have to be at least 13 to enter, and you must live in the US or Canada. For more information see the contests page and the complete rules.

757. Nightlife Interview

Written on Thursday 7 April 2005 at 21:57 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After GameSpy, their colleagues at IGNPC has now also posted an interview about The Sims 2 Nightlife, the recently announced second expansion pack. Rod Humber and Tim LeTourneau talk about the expansion. Things that are being discussed are the features, a comparison with Hot Date, and how Nightlife is really to get telling community stories. Other than that, there is some talk about a DVD version of the packs, where size will be they key aspect for the decision to release a product on just CDs or DVDs as well. Many people still don't have DVD drives in their computer, and with the Sims 2 Maxis noticed many people could not use the DVD edition they bought as they didn't have a DVD drive. Tim also expects that in a course of two years we'll see "everything come out exclusively as DVD." For the entire 3-page interview, visit IGN.

758. New Poll

Written on Thursday 7 April 2005 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Thanks to the 425 people who gave directions in our last poll, we have found the way to Pleasantview. The vast majority, 61.4% (261 votes), says you just have to load up the game and then double click the picture. 14.6% Said "You don't," whereas 11.3% claims it's a matter of just walking on and on. 9.7% said something similar, with "First right, second left, and then just keep going." The final 3.1% advised to go to SimNation first, and then to ask for directions. Lost it? See the full results for more.

And this week, we want to know all about the new Nightlife pack. Does it sound too similar to The Sims 1 its third expansion pack Hot Date, or do you think this will be a lot better? Vote on the right, or on the latest poll page.

759. Nightlife Update - Art, Box, Interview and T-Mail

Written on Wednesday 6 April 2005 at 23:23 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's been announced just one day ago, but there's already quite lot of news about it: Nightlife, The Sims 2's second expansion pack. First of all, Maxis has made a landing page, which shows information of the expansion pack. On it you can find a logo, in colour, as well as some artworks. They're posted in their full size below, they're not thumbnails to click this time. The landing page also gives some info regarding new places: there will be mellow lounges, nightclubs, restaurants and even bowling alleys. Of course objects will to make these be included as well, for example a bowling lane or a DJ Booth. You can work with the latter to get a little bit extra money. Other objects include a photo booth, poker table and a karaoke machine, while new characters come in the shape of vampires and hot waiters. In total there will be 125 new objects and items in the pack, a few more than in University.

Other than that, there is an interview with Tim LeTourneau (Senior Producer) and Shannon Copur (Producer) at GameSpy. They talk about the similarities with Hot Date, but also the differences between the two packs. Some information from the interview has been posted above, for the rest read the interview. GameSpy has also posted a box shot, which you can see below (click the thumbnail to enlarge it).

Finally, we received an e-mail from Tim LeTourneau about this expansion pack. He'll be keeping us updated with news about the expansion pack like he's done with University, and Luc and Lucy did with The Sims 2 itself. You can read his words in the Read More part. Of course we'll keep you updated with the latest news about the pack in the future.

Thanks to XPDude and SP Zone for some of the links.

Read More!

760. Sims 2 Nightlife Announced

Written on Tuesday 5 April 2005 at 22:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The rumours for Sims 2 Nightlife have existed for over a month, and now EA has announced the expansion pack. Some of the features include a new downtown area, new dating gameplay, and a "new life goal focused on pleasure seeking." Sims can head out to town at night to go out, or to find true love. The new Pleasure Seeking aspiration which will make Sims want hot dates, long nights of dancing, or fine dining. The pack will include 125 new objects, among which a DJ booth, a poker table, and more items to make a new nightclub or VIP lounge. As with the previous pack, University, Tim LeTourneau is senior producer of Nightlife and we expect some e-mails from him again in the near future. Of course you'll need the Sims 2 to play the game, which will be out this fall.

In total there are 3 new screenshots and 4 artworks, which you can find below. All were posted at GameSpot, although one posted below is slightly larger as it comes directly from EA. Click the thumbnails to see the larger versions of the shots. Read the press release for more information about this second expansion pack.