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571. The Sims 2 Open For Business - Open All Hours or Closing Down? - Part 5

Written on Friday 14 April 2006 at 08:02 by Andy - 0 comments.

Just over a month ago, we began our review of "Open For Business" but due to my moving house, I was without an internet connection for almost 3 weeks. For those who are still on tenterhooks to find out what else there is to find, the wait is over.

"Martha's Kitchen" is now open for business. Find out about the mechanics of running a bakery and whether she could indeed make a profit from her unorthodox cooking.

With also sections on running restaurants, here's hoping you will feel you have got value for money from this fifth part of our indepth review.

You can find it right here.

572. Family Fun Stuff Released!

Written on Friday 14 April 2006 at 04:41 by Andy - 0 comments.

The latest booster pack for The Sims 2 is now out!

With plenty of themed objects, new outfits and some gameplay revisions, this has something that will appeal to your most discerning sim.

We will be reviewing this shortly so watch this space.

573. Official BBS Spammed [Update]

Written on Monday 10 April 2006 at 00:45 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Regular visitors of the official site's BBS (forums) may notice some downtime today. The reason is that the boards have been "hacked" and were being spammed by an automated robot friday night. Maxis is cleaning up the boards and has thus decided to take the BBS offline until the boards have been cleaned up. When it's brought back, Maxis requests not to post anything off-topic to make it easier to keep the forums spam-free. The Sims 1 BBS is still available, though messages about the downtime of the Sims 2 boards should not be posted there. Maxis has no estimate for when the boards will be back online. Read on for the message the web team sent out as private message to all members of the Sims 2 site.

[Update 11 April 12:47] The BBS is now back up again. Maxis will keep an eye on them to ensure they remain clean and useful. Read More!

574. Family Fun Stuff already Received

Written on Monday 10 April 2006 at 00:38 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's not the first time that some people get a Sims expansion pack almost a week before the official release. Just before the weekend, raye1forTS2 (from Switzerland) opened a thread on the official BBS in which she announces that she's already received a copy of the Family Fun Stuff pack, which is to be released next week. Several screenshots of the pack are posted in her Yahoo! Album. Read the thread for more information. Thanks to SnootySims and SimsZone for the links.

575. Family Fun Stuff Producer Mail

Written on Thursday 6 April 2006 at 02:07 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

We've had Luc-Mails (Luc Barthelet) and Lucy-Mails (Lucy Bradshaw) for the Sims 2, T-Mails (Tim LeTourneau) for University, Nightlife and Open for Business, H-Mails (Hunter Howe) for Open for Business as well, and this time we have an L-Mail for you about the Family Stuff Pack that will be out on PC later this month. Lyndsay Pearson, Associate Producer for the game, tells what a Stuff pack is, and how it's made. As example the toybox is used. She concludes with a few items that will be in the pack, as well as her own experience with it. Of course plenty of graphics are included, this time containing several sketches and artworks, as well as the odd screenshot. You can see them all below, as well as within the e-mail which is posted in the Read More part (see below). The last screenshot listed right below here wasn't directly included in the e-mail. Read More!

576. Easter Downloads from Maxis

Written on Tuesday 4 April 2006 at 00:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

With easter coming along, Maxis has made a few holiday downloads again. An Easter Chick Hat and the Hippity Hoppity Bunny Suit are the first two of what possibly becomes a larger set of Spring downloads (whether it will is currently unknown). Both can be found on the Spring Downloads page. Below are a couple of screenshots and artworks from EA Europe showing the new items.

577. Family Fun Stuff More Expensive [Update - April Fools]

Written on Saturday 1 April 2006 at 13:59 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The first "Stuff" pack for the Sims 2, Family Fun Stuff, will be released later this month. Although previously it was said to be sold at a price of $20, EA has decided to increase the price. Packaging and shipping costs are the main reason. The so-called "Gold Master" CD, the very first CD containing the product which will then be copied to the pressed versions, was broken. The pack had already gone gold, yet unannounced by a press release from EA. This has made millions of already printed copies unusable. These copies cannot be sold anymore, and will be destroyed next week. A new, working version has been made yesterday and is in testing over the weekend. It's expected to be sent to the CD printing factories next week. Family Fun Stuff will be released in stores a week later, but a version at EA Downloader will be released at the given date of 13 April. Due to this misprint the pack will also be sold at a higher price than mentioned before for the first couple of weeks: $25 instead of $20. Availability of the product might also be lower than usual. The price will probably drop back to $20 when the next Stuff pack is released. That rumoured Glamour pack is expected late June. If nothing goes wrong with that, Glamour Stuff will probably start selling at $20.


[Update 2 April, 1:04] Did we kid you? The truth is that Family Fun Stuff will be released on time, in the week of 13 April, for the price of $20 (or roughly the equivalent in any other local currency). Although the game has probably gone gold by now, considering the short time to the release, this has not yet been announced or confirmed by EA. An EA Downloader version too has not yet been confirmed. All the details about that will be posted here as we get the news. Next year, keep in mind that the first of April is a day when we'll post something that's not entirely true... Read More!

578. Lots of Lots

Written on Saturday 1 April 2006 at 02:02 by Jendea - 0 comments.

I've added five new lots today - three residental and two community lots for businesses. As some of you know, I like to play without the money cheat, so all these lots are good values (pretty cheap!) for the square footage. :)

I created the two community lots for my game as well and, consequently, they are admittedly and purposefully very simple. Both turned out to be easy start-ups for young sims, so I thought I would share them too.
Happy Simming!

You can find all 5 lots under my section:jendea.

579. The Sims Complete Collection & The Sims 2 Nightlife on Mac

Written on Wednesday 29 March 2006 at 01:55 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

Aspyr is well-known for porting PC games to the Mac platform. They've done so with the entire PC Sims series so far. Recently they released the Sims 1 Complete Collection for the Mac, which is the Sims 1 with all its expansion packs. For fans of the Sims 2 there's news that Nightlife, the second expansion pack, has gone gold for the platform. More information can be found on their respective product pages: The Sims Complete Collection and The Sims 2 Nightlife. Among a couple of screenshots you'll also find system requirements there. Both products can be bought from our Mac shop.

580. "Run with Scissors" Object Updated

Written on Wednesday 22 March 2006 at 11:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Along with the Open for Business patch released yesterday, Maxis has fixed an older download to prevent conflicts with the latest expansion pack. The "Run with Scissors" April Fool's download of last year can now be redownloaded from the exchange. The download will work whether you have Open for Business or not. What has been changed exactly is unclear.