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1681. Bustin' Out on N-Gage Update

Written on Thursday 26 February 2004 at 22:33 by Stash - 0 comments.

It was announced in January that The Sims: Bustin Out would be coming to the Nokia N-Gage. Well after a month we have some new news on the game. The gameplay will be similar to the GameBoy Advanced version. Yet the N-Gage version will have exclusive mini-games to advance your career and earn Simoleans. Plus you can now upload your score to the N-Gage Arena to challenge another player, and you can also unlock a new location and earn special objects with help from others using Bluetooth wireless technology. Nokia has just launched a game information page on their website. It is full of game information as well as new movies with footage from the game! Also the game's release has been more defined to the second quarter of 2004. Although there's no set release date, expect the game between April and July 2004.

1682. SimDay

Written on Thursday 26 February 2004 at 22:03 by Stash - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay is quite simple again. The first announcement is that KillerSims.com is celebrating 4 years online. To celebrate KillerSims created KSIMS-TV, a TV project that allows broadcasting live from Sim City. Maxis also released three "new" screenshots from The Sims 2. In the "Bustin' Out" section, Maxis released five new MP3 song downloads to their collection. This brings the MP3 count in the Bustin' Out collection up to 27! And lastly, this weeks Maxis is hosting a chat with Maxis Art Directors Bob King and Dave Patch. They will be talking about what it is like to be a Maxis artist and work with Sims on Thursday at 3PM PST (11pm GMT or midnight in most of Europe). That's all for this SimDay.

1683. Away for a Week

Written on Friday 20 February 2004 at 14:14 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

It's time for a little break for me, which means I'll be away from the site for about a week. Meanwhile the rest of the team will keep this site up-to-date as usual until I return. Please remember I probably am not able to reply to e-mails while I'm gone, so you might have to wait a few days if you e-mail me. Please be patient, and see you again at 29 February!

1684. SimDay

Written on Thursday 19 February 2004 at 13:25 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

It's quiet this week at Maxis. After hardly a SimCity Day, there's not much of a SimDay either. There's a link to last week's Homeland Interview with Tim LeTourneau. Some (old) screenshots have also been added at TheSims2.com. MaxisKitty, community manager of TheSims.com, has also posted a guide in how she picks the "Maxis Pick" every week. You can read all about that by following this link. Then there's a post at the official site about a review of Bustin' Out at playboy.com. To read all about it, click here. Finally there's the news that there won't be a chat this week. Maxis has decided to change it to a chat every other week instead of one per week. The next chat will be held next week thursday at 3PM PST (11pm GMT or midnight in most of Europe). That's all again for this SimDay.

1685. New Poll

Written on Thursday 19 February 2004 at 01:21 by ChEeTaH - 6 comments.

It's thursday morning, which means we have a new poll for you again. Last week we asked if you have any really old, or even ancient, Sims. If you're interested in checking the final results of that poll, click here. This week's poll is about The Sims 2 again. As we all know, a lot of features are being added. But there are also many which will not make the game. We've listed a couple of those features, and now want to know which one of those you want to see in the game the most. That could be in an expansion pack too. Let us know and vote at the right, or on this page.

1686. Slice City in the News

Written on Tuesday 17 February 2004 at 13:05 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

Sims fansite SimSlice has made news. Their "Slice City", which brings SimCity to The Sims, attracted Wired, and they've written an article entirely about the download. Here's a snippet:

"Now the series has come full circle. The plug-in from Simslice, called Slice City, lets the Sims in the game play a video game in which they create mini cities. So, along with the many things that Sims can be instructed to do -- such as going to work, playing guitar, cooking, socializing and dating -- they can blow endless hours creating small urban environments."

For the complete article, which also contains some quotes from Steve Alvey, a designer at SimSlice, click here. For Slice City, click here.

1687. Maxis' Move followed by Rumours

Written on Monday 16 February 2004 at 13:15 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

The relocation of the studios of Maxis has made some people worried. It's rumoured that the move could cause (or has caused) delays of The Sims 2. Besides the extra commute time for employees of about 2 hours, some of those 300 employees have been laid off. The reason is that there were already people at the new location (where EA was already based) filling their positions. There are also rumours that one of those who was laid off, was the lead designer of The Sims 2. EA has not commented about the suspicions yet. This information has been published by PC Zone UK. Click here for the entire article.

Please note that some of the things mentioned are only rumours and can in no way be considered definitely true.

1688. TSZ Improved!

Written on Sunday 15 February 2004 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

It's been only two weeks since we launched the Knowledge Database, and we've already added some major improvements. The biggest is the new rating of answers. Members can now say how helpful an answer is by giving it a score from 1 to 5. This will help others to see what the most accurate answer to a specific question is. Also, the questions in a section are now listed in tables, and you can see immediately when it's been posted, how many answers there are, and how many times a question has been viewed already. Another new feature is that you can now sort the lists any way you want: on the text of the question, when it was posted, the amount of answers, the date of the latest answer or the amount of views (default). And all that can be done both ascending and descending. Your setting will be stored using a "cookie" so it will stick the the item you chose last for sorting the lists. The same functionality has been added to the Files section. But: that section has undergone some other improvements as well! There now is the "DLs/Day" information in the table, or Downloads per Day. It shows the average amount of downloads every day. The "Most Popular" list is now using that data to determine which files are the most popular. It is now also possible for members to post their comments about specific files, just like you'd post comments to the news or community news. Finally, we've added an RSS Feed for the files section as well, so you can quickly see what's new at TSZ without visiting it!

As if those improvements to both the Knowledge and Files sections aren't enough, some general bugs have been fixed at TSZ as well. "New" items on the front page won't be marked as new for (6 hours) too long anymore. We've also improved the Sidebar, where you can now also check out the latest questions from the knowledge database. Some bugs there have been fixed as well. Finally there are some other minor bug fixes throughout the site.

We hope you'll enjoy the new and improved features here at TSZ. Of course none of the old functionality has gone lost. Instead we've only made a ton of improvements, which should make your experience here a lot better. Of course if you ever have any suggestions for improvements, let us know!

1689. Chat Transcript

Written on Friday 13 February 2004 at 13:15 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

Maxis has posted the chat transcript, of which we already gave you some information. Some information that I didn't give you yesterday (because I missed some parts of the chat myself) is that Maxis has delayed The Sims 2 because they were adding more features, mainly in the neighborhood. The cooking skills of teens usually won't be great. Maxis will also release a tool similar to HomeCrafter. They already use that for designing now, and might release it once the bugs have been taken out. There's a lot more to read though, with many previously answered questions. You can find the complete transcript right here.

1690. News from Chat

Written on Friday 13 February 2004 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

Luc's just had his chat, and there's quite some interesting news again. The major thing is probably that there will most likely not be any weather in the game, unlike stated at the E3. According to Luc it's not as important as "making the Sims smarter". It was first mentioned as a big feature when the game was presented at the E3 in 2003, but Maxis never really mentioned it anymore since then. Now it looks like it probably won't be possible to get Sims struck by lightning after all. The reason Luc gave that the feature was removed was because it was raining inside as well, which was "stupid". When somebody asked if they've completely given up on the rain already, Luc said "never surrender!" There are already discussions being held about it right here and over here on the BBS, where you can participate as well. TSZ members can also post their comments to this news item to share their opinions. But there's also some good news... Read More!