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21. SimDay

Written on Thursday 23 October 2003 at 23:41 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's that time of the week again: SimDay. We've already posted about 2 items yesterday: the Sims 2 Website and the weekly chat. Then there are 2 links to articles. One is a hands-on preview of Makin' Magic at PC.IGN.Com. It's not the definite review yet, but it gives a pretty nice description of the new gameplay, like the way you start your magical career:

"After installing the expansion, you'll find a strange box on the doorstep of your Sims' houses. When you open it, you'll discover Magico's Magical Starter Kit. It contains Version 2 of the Spell Book, a convenient hole in the ground portal, a wand recharger, some Magic Coins and a few other surprises that'll get you started on your road to home-brewed witchery."

Many players probably want to know whether the bugs from Superstar have finally been fixed. Unfortunately it doesn't say so yet in this preview, but once the game's released 28 October we should know more about that. The other article is a Bustin' Out preview, which you can find right here at GamingNexus. In the "Read more" bit (or the next parapgraph), there's more about 2 download items, and 1 new contest. Read More!

22. New Poll

Written on Thursday 23 October 2003 at 09:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week we asked you if you prefer Servo from Livin' Large, or the Butler from Superstar. Human beings still win from the robots: the Butler got more than 54% of the votes. Here are the results:

Servo! He's free, and does enough: 15.34% (29)

They're both good, but I prefer Servo: 8.99% (17)

I like them both, but the Butler just a bit more. 11.64% (22)

The Butler! You don't have to switch him on, and does a lot more! 54.50% (103)

Servo? Butler? I don't have Livin' Large or Superstar... 9.52% (18)

This week we ask you if you've been to any of the Maxis chats at the official site recently. Let us know and vote on the right or click here.

23. Tomorrow's chat

Written on Thursday 23 October 2003 at 00:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As usual a chat will be held on Thursday. This week the chat will be about Superstar and Makin' Magic, and guest of honour is Cooper "MaxisProducer" Buckingham. You'll be able to ask all the questions you have about these 2 expansion packs. As usual, the chat will be held at 3PM PST, which is 11pm in Britain and midnight in most of Europe. Once the transcript has been posted, we will let you know.

24. SimDay: nothing much

Written on Thursday 16 October 2003 at 20:50 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It seems to be very busy at Maxis, as this week's SimDay was posted late, and isn't too big. There are 2 things about Bustin' Out: the official site now has a Bustin' Out section right here (or via the new "Console" section in the menu at the official site). It gives a bit of info, screenshots and that's about it. It's not great, but it's something. Some of the screenshots appear to be new, so head over there if you're interested. The second Bustin' Out thing is that there's going to be a chat tonight - like every week - with Virginia McArthur about Bustin' Out. The chat's at 3PM PST, 11PM BST (UK) or midnight CET (Europe). You can get there by going through this page. Finally there's a download for the owners of Vacation, Unleashed or Superstar: new TV commercials. It's audio only, which means only the sound of the TV will change. You can download it from Get Cool Stuff at the official site, for just 230 kb. That's all this week.

25. New Poll

Written on Thursday 16 October 2003 at 09:51 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's Thursday again, and now Sim Brother is over we're back with the regular weekly polls. This week we want to know if you prefer Servo, the Livin' Large robot that serves your Sims, or the old Butler from Superstar, who lives to serve. Let us know, and vote on the right or on this page. The last poll, still about Sim Brother 3, didn't run a full week. However, quite a few of you voted. We asked you who you thought who'd win when Sim Brother started. Britney got the highest ranking: 26% (24 of 92 votes). She left early though, and the wniner was Ruud. He got 17 votes in this poll, which places him second with 18%. 12 people voted for the Graham, and with 13% he's third. The others followed later. Of course Kelly wasn't in this poll, as she wasn't in the series when it started, but came in later. If you want to read it all again because you forgot: visit Sim Brother 3. Of course we also still have Series 1 and Series 2 for you to read. For the rest of the results of last week's poll, click here.

26. Makin' Magic Preview

Written on Tuesday 14 October 2003 at 12:27 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

IGN has posted a preview of the final expansion pack for The Sims 1: Makin' Magic. Along with some screenshots, it comes with some bits of new info:

"But it's not all work and there are plenty of opportunities to have fun without getting your pointy hat all singed. The Haunted House rides are large roller coasters that can be assembled in a variety of ways -- well, whatever variety you can get from the nine main pieces that is -- and you can even create these rides on Vacation Island if you have that expansion pack. (There are other connections with previous expansions: Superstar's obsessed fan leaves black roses can be made in to fame-boosting charms, Unleashed's pets can transform into humans, etc.) You can also build your very own mini-golf courses. [...]

"Magic Town also has a special fourth lot reserved for residents of Magic Town. That's right; if you have enough Magic Coins you can buy yourself a house here and never have to leave. The visuals here are very Addams Family-like with some really interesting touches. For instance, you won't have flowers in your yard. Instead you'll have large crystal structures and beanstalks stretching up the heavens."

The whole preview is 2 pages long. Once the expansion pack's released, IGN will post a proper review of it. The release datum is still set at 28 October (US), or 31 October in Europe. You can find the full preview right here.

27. SimDay: More articles

Written on Thursday 2 October 2003 at 22:33 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

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... Read More!

28. Superstar comes to Mac

Written on Saturday 30 August 2003 at 00:39 by Stash - 0 comments.

Mac game publisher Aspyr Media announced plans to publish "The Sims Superstar". As with the original Sims, and the other expansion packs that have already been released, Westlake Interactive is handling the conversion for Aspyr. The Mac version on the expansion pack will require (aside from the original Sims game), Mac OS X v10.1 (or later ), or Mac OS 9.2.2 (or later). Plus G3/233MHz (or faster), 192MB RAM, 2MB VRAM, 750MB hard disk space, QuickTime v4.1.2 (or later). The Sims Superstar for Macintosh is anticipated for release this October.

29. 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!

30. Superstar - What our critic has to say

Written on Tuesday 22 July 2003 at 22:54 by Andy - 0 comments.

You've seen the other reviews about this expansion but what do we think about it?

Our review is in!