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2221. Sim Brother II - Day 70 (The Weakest Sim)

Written on Thursday 31 October 2002 at 01:00 by Andy - 0 comments.

2222. EA increases profit

Written on Wednesday 30 October 2002 at 23:19 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

EA, the company which Maxis (the creators of The Sims) is a division of, has done some very good business. Their profit over the third quarter of 2002 had increased with 89% to $453 million compared to the same quarter last year ($250 million then). The main money-making games were Madden NFL 2003, NCAA Football 2003, Medal of Honor Frontline and - of course - The Sims. EA also expects to release 35 new titles for the holidays - the most ever. Those games will be released over 75 countries and in 20 different languages. One of them being The Sims Online. Some nice facts to know are that EA had five op the top selling games in the US charts of PC games, including The Sims and the expansion packs Livin' Large and Vacation. Note that Unleashed wasn't released in that time period yet, as the third quarter ended 30 September. The total of The Sims 'units' sold so far are 18 million. Some more financial (and other) figures can be found in the full press release (a MS-Word document). Now why coiuld Europeans never get a rebate for The Sims Deluxe..?

2223. GameSpy Unleashed review

Written on Tuesday 29 October 2002 at 00:16 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This time, GameSpy has reviewed Unleashed. Here's just a small snippet:

"Electronic Arts has been quick to milk the success of the franchise with a seemingly endless parade of expansion packs. Even at $30 a pop, they, too, top the charts. The Sims Unleashed is the latest addition to the Sims family. Despite a couple of snags, it's a worthwhile add-on to anyone who can't get enough of the continually surprising world of those tiny digital people."

The total score is 85. The main pros are the expanded neighborhood, the new pets, but the large number of (small) bugs and the long loading times make the opinion worse than it could've been. Also the clockwork is a con; it takes too long to do some actions and it can be very frustrating according to the reviewer. The bug of water flowing under objects is not mentioned though. The bad pathing problems (e.g. Sims "spinning in place" to sit down - or did they learn that from the dogs?) are mentioned though.

The whole review can be read here. For more reviews, visit our review index where you can now also find a link to this review.

2224. Official Dutch site launching soon

Written on Tuesday 29 October 2002 at 00:02 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

From EAGames.nl we (well, everybody who understands Dutch) can read that there will soon be an official site for The Sims in Dutch. This is nice news for the Dutch-speaking fans, as there hasn't been a properly translated official site for the game in Dutch so far. There will be downloads, contests, the latest sims news, and later on it will be expanded with a forum and the ability to run your own diary for your Sims. This website will launch 1 November (next friday), probably (but still unconfirmed) at www.thesims.nl. That shows the official site's homepage now, but who knows that might change later. The Netherlands is following many other countries which got their own translated versions a few months ago. Unfortunately there's no possibility of joining the TSO play test in The Netherlands or Belgium yet, even though the game will be released there. Maybe a special action will be launched at the launch of the website, giving the fans there also the ability to play test TSO.

2225. Halloween Update!

Written on Monday 28 October 2002 at 03:56 by Sumit - 0 comments.

Be forewarn Halloween is coming! And to celebrate it lets kick off with two Halloween musts: A pumpkin and a witch hat! More is on its way! Find it all over here!

Wouldn't it be great if you really wanted your sims to have something special this Halloween yet you could not find it? Well why not request it? Whta do you have to loose?

Requests here.

2226. Sorry to lose you, Carrie

Written on Monday 28 October 2002 at 00:57 by Andy - 1 comment.

It is with regret that we say farewell to Carrie who has worked as one of our object designers for the past year. In that time, she has produced a lot of objects and also worked outside her remit producing skins, walls and buildings.

However, Carrie is not deserting the Sims Community as she is moving on to better things and the works of the "Holsimer Corporation" can now be found at Sims Match where she is the Co-Webmaster. She has also become Co-webmaster for RCT Match and we wish her well.

Sumit has now taken her place as Object Designer, which means we now have a Vacancy for a Walls/Floor Designer.

2227. The Neighborhood Handler 4.0 RC1 out

Written on Sunday 27 October 2002 at 23:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Just a couple of minutes ago, I released The Neighborhood Handler 4.0 RC1 (Release Candidate). This version is a version that is close to the final. A few bugs may have to be polished out, but as far as I know everything is working properly. But: only group members can download it yet. For those who haven't registered there yet, it's not too late. Visit the group site and register. You will immediately get an email with the download instructions (in the PS). And why you should download this new version? Here are some of the new functions:

• Zipping and password-protecting back-ups is now possible
• You can now also enter details (name and comments) for regular neighborhoods
• You can now have up to 99 back-ups and 99 regular neighborhoods, a total of 198 neighborhoods
• Support for the latest expansion pack, Unleashed, has been added.

A full list of updates is in the included readme file. Please note that this version is yet undocumented - i.e. the manual has not been updated and there's not a real decent readme file. Also, the DLL files of The Neighborhood Handler 3.8 are required. However, I can give support on it and you can email me with any questions you have about it. If you want to download it now, then join the group (for free). If you can wait a week, then you don't have to join as the program will be available to everybody next week, as a free download. For more information about the program, or to download the required DLL files, visit the website. For questions, email me.

2228. New cheat found: Nessie

Written on Saturday 26 October 2002 at 00:21 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A nice news bit from SimsZone.de: apparantly Nessie has moved to SimCity to swim around there (in Unleashed). Some might have already seen it, but if you haven't then it might be worth a try. In the neighborhood screen, press Control+Shift+C (all at the same time), release them and type 'Nessie' (without quotations). Press enter and Nessie will come by in your neighborhood. To see a screenshot of it, click here. Thanks to SimsZone.de for this news.

2229. Original Objects!

Written on Friday 25 October 2002 at 01:21 by Sumit - 0 comments.

Finally your sims can have some really beautiful 3D original objects. These are my first of many more to come. They will get better download after download. So here they are 2 lovely ultra-modern table lamps! All here.

And now for the best part. I will take requests for objects. Now I have just started so please for right now just send requests for objects that are one-tiled (except recolorings, it can be any size for that). Recolored requests will appear faster and also I specialize with modular things and can get very creative with it :)
Email requests here.

2230. The Sims column at IGN

Written on Friday 25 October 2002 at 00:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

PC.Ign has a 'regular' column about The Sims. Yesterday, part 4 was posted. It's tells a bit about the Unleashed expansion too, and all the problems that come with it. This time, it was up to Rick Halle (SimEnhancer), James Sausville (SimWardrobe) and Chad Authier (7 Deadly Sims) to tell what they think of the expansion packs, the bugs, and more. Here's a quote from Chad:

"'Seems they forgot about us sometimes, and sometimes it's pretty devastating to the community,' he says. 'I mean when Hot Date came out, no user created objects were able to be viewed downtown, until someone from the community not Maxis made a program to fix that problem. But then months later Maxis released a program to do the same thing, but it still isn't up to par with the user-communities version!'"

Sounds like something very typical... They also criticise the way SimCity 4 was addressed to as Sims 4 in an article in the NYTimes (free registration required), to get better sales for The Sims Online. They also mention The Sims 2 in their last bit, which will probably come out next year (a shop assistant told me, ChEeTaH, when I bought Unleashed recently that it'd be May 2003 for The Sims 2). Anyway, for the whole article at IGN, simply click here.