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831. New Unleashed Info

Written on Tuesday 16 July 2002 at 17:01 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

A full 2-paged article has appeared at PC.IGN.com about The Sims Unleashed. As stated earlier, the new expansion will mainly focus on pets, as well as community areas. The smaller addition is the gardening, which doesn't sound bad either. The Community areas contain areas where your whole family can go to at once - including the kids - with what will probably be a city bus in the final version. In those areas you'll find the neighbours of your sims walking around. There you have to decide: dog or cat? Read More!

832. SimDay: Unleashed announced

Written on Thursday 11 July 2002 at 04:24 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

The big news is here: The Sims Unleashed has officially been announced. Also, the first details of this new, and probably the last, expansion pack for The Sims are in the same press release. The rumours about the pets were right:

"For the first time ever, the Sims can visit a pet store and bring home a variety of creatures and accoutrements. Players will make a big splash with the addition of a lumbering Labrador or fickle feline to their Sim family. They can also buy a parrot, turtle, lizard or fish that are fun for the whole family but don't need to be house trained."

But, there's a whole lot more to look out for... Read More!

833. What do you download the most?

Written on Thursday 11 July 2002 at 02:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Thursday means another poll at The Sims Zone. This week: what type of extras do you download the most? No need to explain it really I think, just vote on the right or on this page.

Quite many people voted on the last poll. And it's true: most of you use cheats all the time. 70 of all the 202 people (that's more than one third of the total!) has voted for "is there a way to play without them?". 42 people use cheats pretty often, and another 22 quite regularly. 31 people use just the money cheat, 9 cheat to move objects around, and 8 cheat - but not to get money. 3 votes were for "just to get rid of flies". There's still a bit of hope, although it's not big: only 8.42% of the players - 17 votes - do not use cheats at all. Detailed results can be found here.

834. Unleashed rumours: true or false?

Written on Wednesday 10 July 2002 at 01:50 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims Unleashed is probably the most vague project from Maxis at the moment. There are a lot of rumours that it'll be coming out later this year, but other sources think that nothing of the rumours is true. GamesDomain has said they got confirmation from EA in this article. However, the rumours about Unleashed were first seen in a joke by Bil Simser (BluePrint). He is saying on his site that none of it is true - but how sure is he? How can sites get confirmation that something is true, when it isn't? Maybe Maxis took over something from his joke, and is actually working on a new expansion pack called Unleashed... In any case, a customer preview at EB-Games (that has been removed now) was a fake, as it was a copy of Bil's original joke. At the moment, we cannot tell you whether The Sims Unleashed is really coming or not, nor can we give any other information about it as Maxis hasn't officially released one word about it yet. The definite confirmation will probably come in an announcement one or another SimDay, in the form of a press release. We'll keep you updated.

835. Late SimDay Report: SimCity 4 article

Written on Tuesday 9 July 2002 at 03:22 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Due to the 4th of July holiday in the US, there wasn't a SimDay last thursday. However, it is there now, along with some other news. There is some news about SimCity 4: a few articles from the development team have been added, a bit like the articles posted recently at The Sims Online. For instance, there's one article about the buildings in SimCity 4:

"But the point really is, when you pan away from an area, whether it's to place a park, dispatch the mayor, or to have lunch, you can come back, say 30 years later, and still recognize the neighborhood. You might not like it much, but yeah, it's the same place."

All articles can be found here. Besides these articles, there's a news post on the official site that the exchange is being upgraded, and therefore is down until further notice. That's all for this week, hopefully another SimDay later this week, on thursday then.

836. Community Section Launched!

Written on Monday 8 July 2002 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The moment you've all been waiting for is here! As you can see, the community section is now open. This place will give you the latest news from the community, members can add site updates to let everybody know when their sites have been updated at this page. It'll even give those members one line on the homepage of TSZ then (in the headlines bit). Finally, there is a list of links to the sites of all our members. In other words: free publicity for those who have registered as member and have a Sims-site on their own.

If you have any questions about posting updates, adding your link to the list, or just anything else about this community section, don't hesitate and e-mail ChEeTaH. We hope you'll like this brand-new section. Any comments are appreciated here.

837. TSO July Update

Written on Sunday 7 July 2002 at 22:21 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This month is already 7 days old, and so the official The Sims Online Site has been updated again. This month, there are 5 new articles in the game features section, of which one again is by Will Wright, and another one is about the "Bounce my Booty Dance Floor":

"Summer is the perfect time for parties. Whether you're into club scenes, wild raves, or theme luaus, the "Bounce My Booty" Dance Floor will definitely let you groove to the wild beats of summer."

The other articles contain a "play diary" - a couple of days playing TSO described - a few short interviews with some of the creators of The Sims Online (including Will Wright, Chris Trottier, Gordon Walton and Luc Barthelet. Besides that there is an article about the (private) messenging system in the game too. The July state of the S.I.M.M. tells a few bits about the "E3 Aftermath", and the testing and development status. Details about the external beta (read this) will be released next month. Last but not least: some wallpapers have been added, as well as some AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) Icons. The articles can be found here, the July state of the S.I.M.M. is here and the new downloads are on this page, all on the Official TSO site. Note that it's still unknown whether this game will be released in Europe after all - or not (probably much later than in the US if at all). The scheduled (US) release is near the end of this year, and it'll cost $50 to buy, then between about $11 and $13 per month to play.

838. Coming Soon: Community Section

Written on Friday 5 July 2002 at 14:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Lately we've been working hard on several new things here at The Sims Zone. The result is a community section. This section will contain community news, other site's updates and links to the sites of our members. The news will be brought by us, and with the site updates members with their own site will be able to tell everybody at The Sims Zone when they've updated. It'll even get a little space on the frontpage in the headlines section too then. This new section will launch after the weekend. Upgrades that had to be done for this have been processed in the registration area last wednesday. There are a few new options there for if you have a site. Because of that, the provided links to all sites in the profiles of members were deleted. These members can put it back simply by going to the My Details page. We are sorry for that inconvenience, but it's necessary for everything to work launch correctly and smoothly. We'll be upgrading Sunday night which might result in a short downtime.

839. You don't cheat, do you?

Written on Thursday 4 July 2002 at 02:37 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Yup, it's thursday again, which means it's time for another poll. This time, we wonder if you ever use cheats in The Sims. Are you one of those who can't live without them, or do you rather play normally and don't you use cheats? Have your say on the right, or right here. As for the previous poll - "What is the best in The Sims?" - the results were quite divided. The winning result was "Expanding the game with downloads" though, which got 40 votes (29.2%). Second came "Building houses and areas" (26 votes, 18.98%) closely followed by "Furnishing houses and areas" (24 votes, 17.52%). 20 people told us they like to run the Sims' lifes, while only 7 like to ruin them. Only 7 other people voted that they like the designing of extras the best. "Killing Sims" did a bit better, with 13 of 137 votes, which is 9.49%. All results - including those of the old polls - can be found in the poll archive.

840. TSO Chat in 90 minutes

Written on Thursday 27 June 2002 at 02:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The news might be a bit late, but not too late: there will be a chat session at Stratics Chat in about 90 minutes (6:00 PM PST, 2:00 AM GMT). This chat session will be about The Sims Online. Part of the TSO team will be chatting there (Will Wright won't be there). This first ever "Sims Online House of Commons Chat" seems to be one of a series of chat sessions held at different places. More information is here (including the IRC Servers and Channels it's held at). You can enter the Java Chat client here if you're not familiar with IRC.