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661. OfB Presentation in Brussels Reports

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 17:21 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

As we posted earlier, Tim LeTourneau was in Brussels last thursday to promote Open for Business. Besides our own preview there are several other fansites who also had representatives over, and they have now posted pictures and/or reports from the presentation. Below you can find links to the reports posted so far. Note that some of the sites mentioned below are Dutch, and thus so are their reports - in that case, you'll almost always find the same information in our article. If more reports appear, we'll post them here.

• SP Zone
• SnootySims
• SimsNetwork (English report, with pictures)
• The Hub
• DeKDeS & Mogway's Sims 2 Creations
• SimsPlanet2 Forums

662. The SimPrentice - Open for Business Preview

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 16:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Like GameSpy did with the previous two expansion packs for the Sims 2, they have now started a series of articles called the SimPrentice. They talk to Grubbs, "a full-time slacker and part-time entrepreneur," who has set up his own salon in the Sims world, in his parents' garage. The article has several screenshots, including some of the interface. To see those, check out the screenshot gallery of GameSpy. Naturally for more details, you should read the interview.

663. Open for Business Preview

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 16:46 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

When Tim LeTourneau was in the UK to present Open for Business to the press, website EuroGamer talked to him about the expansion pack as well. The result is a new preview, that gives a little bit of new information. For example, the three basic types of businesses are mentioned: pay-per-item, pay-per-service, and pay-per-time. Using stories from a demo, it also tells that one of the robots, probably hydro bot, was spraying water all over the place when it was broken. A cleaner but ran after it, cleaning up all the puddles. Things like conical roofing, awnings, split-level places and elevators are also briefly mentioned.

In the interview on the second page, which is more general about the Sims itself, Tim also mentions that Open for Business probably won't be available through EA Downloader, a service that EA introduced with the Holiday Party Pack. For more details, be sure to read the preview.

664. Open for Business Graphics

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 16:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's not very uncommong for EA to release a lot of screenshots of the games they are creating. Open for Business, the upcoming expansion pack, is no exception there. Five screenshots have been found at the French site JeuxVideo.com. They show various shops in action, including some of the new objects. Besides that, EA has also posted a new artwork as well as the logo (without any backgrounds) of the expansion pack on their press site. You'll be able to see all the graphics by clicking the thumbnails below. Thanks to L'universims for discovering the screenshots.

665. Brussels in Business [Update]

Written on Saturday 14 January 2006 at 05:50 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Thursday Tim LeTourneau, Senior producer of the Sims 2 Open for Business, was in Brussels to show the game to fans and press. The Sims Zone was invited as well, and naturally we went to check out the upcoming expansion pack. Besides taking a lot of pictures, we also got a lot of information about the new expansion pack. Brand new information, that you won't find anywhere else yet. After much hard work, a preview has now been made. In it you can find over 70 pictures of the game, as well as all the information we received. It should answer a lot of questions you submitted, but not all. We'll still try to get an answer to those that we're still unsure about, so don't worry if your question didn't get answered in the preview. Nevertheless, find out more and read it!


[Update 15:00] Most of the pictures have been edited, so they are a bit brighter. They're still not great, but it should now be a bit easier to see some of the details. We'll soon post links to other sites with more (and better) pictures from the event.

666. New Lighting Object

Written on Friday 13 January 2006 at 08:32 by Jendea - 0 comments.

Hi everyone! I posted a new meshed object today:
A Stained Glass Shade Table Lamp (also included are three recolors: Dragonfly, Wisteria and Sunburst patterns).

Click on the picture to check it out or you can also find them under my section: jendea.

667. Open for Business Screenshots

Written on Thursday 12 January 2006 at 07:37 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

On the official site Maxis has posted two new screenshots showing scenes from Open for Business. The first shows the water wiggler and a child playing with a kite, where the second one shows what's probably the toy bench. To see these screenshots, just click the thumbnails below.

668. Open for Business Details from Chat [Update 2]

Written on Monday 9 January 2006 at 22:26 by ChEeTaH - 8 comments.

As we let you know last Friday, Tim LeTourneau would be joining a chat today to answer some questions about the upcoming expansion pack, Open for Business. The chat has now finished, and a full log will be posted tomorrow. The highlights are in the "Read more" part of this newspost. If your questions weren't answered, feel free to submit them to us. You have until Wednesday for that.

[Update 11 January, 23:30] Due to technical problems, the chat log of the chat has gone lost. We'll try to complete the information below with information gathered from affiliates and the official site. If there's an update here, it'll be marked as such. More information is likely to be given in a preview of Open for Business that will be posted on the Sims Zone later this week. For the information about the technical problems, check out the forum thread about it on the official UK site.

[Update 12 January, 0:55] The list was fairly complete, but a few things were missing. The list has now been completed with information from other sources. Thanks to those sources for the extra information. The new information is put through the list below, sorted more or less by topic. Read More!

669. More Details about Open for Business Mascot

Written on Sunday 8 January 2006 at 19:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We already got information about the mascot giveaway if you pre-order Open for Business from various shops. The official site has now published more details about this download. The mascot will be an outfit, and besides that you'll also get a life-size sculpture download to put outside your Sims store. The description below is from the official site:

"Pre-order your copy of The Sims 2 Open For Business today and get access to an exclusive Sims mascot outfit and accompanying life-size sculpture to display outside your Sims store! Give their business its own unique theme and mess with your Sims by dressing them as a wacky new mascot. The special mascot and sculpture display items are only available to those who reserve the game from their favorite retailers listed below. Get ready for your Sims bring home the big bucks in The Sims 2 Open For Business."

Instead of being available to the US only, it'll be available in various European countries as well. It's not yet sure whether it'll be available in the UK, and if so in which shops. You'll also get the downloads if you pre-order the pack from our PC shop (for now US only). You can also pre-order the strategy guide for extra hints and tips for the expansion pack.

670. Holiday Party Pack Available until 15th [Update]

Written on Sunday 8 January 2006 at 19:07 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Although the holidays are over, the Holiday Party Pack (or Christmas Party Pack) is still available. Not for much longer though, as the pack will be taken off the shelves as of 15 January, according to the official site. That means there's one week left to buy the pack. Although likely, the US Holiday Edition is not mentioned as going out of sale next week. The price of $15 hasn't changed.

[Update 14 January, 13:50] The pack will be available a little longer even, until 24 January. So if you still want to get it, you have a little more time to do so.