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491. New Family Fun Stuff MySims Icon

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 03:57 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

To clear up the official website a bit, Maxis has changed the MySims icon for Family Fun Stuff, shown on everyone's MySims page. The original wheel made it unclear to people with lower-end video cards, as the difference between registered and unregistered was hard to tell. The toybox has now taken its place, after it won over the Mardi Gras mask in a little survey held by Maxis. More information has been posted by MaxoidDrea. You can see the registered (coloured) and unregistered (grey) icons below.

492. Festive Holiday Stuff Update

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 03:48 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Over a month ago we reported about the third stuff pack possibly being Festive Holiday Stuff. This has now more or less been confirmed by EA Germany, which gave a release list to GameStar, a German magazine. With an expected release in Germany of 9 November, the pack can be expected in the US around 7 November and the UK at the 10th. The date may vary a little for other countries. The exact contents or price of the pack is unknown, although EBGames has had a listing of it according to SnootySims. Under the title "Happy Holiday Stuff" a release date of 7 November was put, and a Holiday Edition 2006 of the game, most likely a bundle of the Sims 2 and the Stuff pack, was also listed. Both listings have now disappeared from the website though, and the pack can no longer be pre-ordered from EBGames. Naturally we'll keep you up-to-date with any news about this (still rumoured) stuff pack.

493. New Sims 2 Introduction Demo

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 03:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Earlier this month EA released a new demo of the Create a Sim part of the game. Titled "The Sims 2: An Introduction" this demo lets you create sims without the need of the Sims 2 itself. The created Sims can be shared through the exchange. Options to change the Sim's finest details are in the demo, and the resulting Sims can of course be played in the game as well. The demo weighs 286 Mb to download, and comes close to using 400 Mb after installation. The EA FTP server provides the download for the official sites, but you can also find it on various other sites, including GameSpot.

494. SIMVeillance Art Project

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 03:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Occasionally an artist uses the Sims to create something for an art exhibition. Katherine Isbister and Rainey Straus created a project in San Jose, by installing a surveillance camera in the Fairmont Hotel near the Fairmont Plaza in downtown San Jose, California. The people filmed with that camera have been turned into Sims using the Sims 2, and the source video has been recreated using the Sims avatars of the passersby. The SIMVeillance project was first shown at the ZeroOne Festival in San Jose, two weeks ago. The two screens showing the original and animated videos can be watched until 26 November in the San Jose Museum of Art. More details are at the SIMWorks website, which also has a preview video of the project. Rensselaer Campus News also has a story about the art, and even more can be found in a Mercury News article.

495. Open for Business Gold on Mac

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 02:43 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Aspyr has updated their project status page with the information that Open for Business has gone gold for Mac. That means it's now in the final stages of production and will soon be shipped to shops worldwide. Although an exact release date is not given by Aspyr itself, their main online retailer Amazon US currently reports a shipping date of 4 September, while Amazon UK says it'll be out 1 September. Making things more confusing is MacWorld, which reports that the game will be out this week. The exact date remains uncertain, but it's almost certain that it'll be released in the next few weeks. Whether Aspyr is planning to release the stuff packs on the Mac platform as well is currently uncertain.

496. Glamour Life Mini-game

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 02:33 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

To promote Glamour Life Stuff, EA has published a mini-game similar to that of Family Fun Stuff. With the game (which requires Flash 8) you can drag several items and Sims to a room, and so decorate your favourite glamour room. You can play the game as much as you like, straight from the web.

497. Glamour Bonus Items

Written on Wednesday 23 August 2006 at 02:01 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

In several countries throughout the world, EA is offering bonus items when you purchase Glamour Life Stuff at selected retailers. Although EA UK has not yet announced a similar promotion, in America there are three stores where you can get one of three items: Target will get you a Gold Record for your Sims, at Wal-Mart you'll get an exclusive painting and at Best Buy you can ask for a Television set. In all cases you'll need to pick your copy up in a local store - online purchases probably do not apply. For more information see the Glamour Order page on the official site. To get the pack delivered to your doormat, you can pre-order the stuff pack from our shop.

498. Glamour Wallpapers and MySim Themes

Written on Tuesday 15 August 2006 at 05:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It was only recently when Maxis made some new Glamour Life Wallpapers and two MySim Themes based on Family Fun Stuff and Pleasantview. Now there are two more wallpapers and two themes for MySims pages, all in the style of Glamour Life Stuff, the stuff pack that will be released at the end of this month. If you're logged into the official site you can click "Manage" next to your avatar to modify the theme of your MySim Page to either the Diamonds or Gold Glamour Life themes, or of course any older theme. The wallpapers can be found on the wallpapers page, and come in resolutions of 1024x768 and 800x600. Below you can see the thumbnails for both the desktop and MySim decorations.

499. Aly and AJ in The Sims 2 Pets

Written on Tuesday 15 August 2006 at 05:11 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Just like several bands did for Open for Business, the upcoming Sims game The Sims 2 Pets (expansion pack on PC) will feature real-life artists who recorded one of their songs in Simlish. Aly and AJ have performed "Chemicals React," which can be found on the Deluxe Edition of Into the Rush, in Simlish. The song will appear in the PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube and PSP versions of the game - the DS and GBA editions will not feature it. The Deluxe Edition of Into the Rush is now available in stores with an extra bonus dvd, which includes the full video of the song. Yahoo! Music will host the world premiere of the complete Simlish Aly & AJ video on August 22nd, but so far a trailer of it has been published on the official site. The press release announcing the collaboration between EA and Aly and AJ is found together with the trailer on a special Aly and AJ page.

500. E-Mail Problems Solved

Written on Wednesday 9 August 2006 at 17:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

If you recently tried becoming a member of The Sims Zone or our sister site the Spore Zone, you may not have received your registration e-mail, or you may have only just received it, after the normal 48 hours limit. You might also have tried sending us an e-mail through our contact form, but never got a reply. Due to some technical issues, the server hasn't sent out many e-mails, which means any e-mail sent between 3 August and today may not have been received by us, or hasn't been sent out properly. These problems have now fortunately been solved.

So if you sent us an email in the past couple of days, please try again. To try becoming a member again, head on over to the register page and fill in the details again. If it's been over 48 hours since you last tried, the username you picked should be free to use again, otherwise you might have to wait a little while.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by these errors.