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311. Nightlife Screens and Artworks
Written on Tuesday 5 July 2005 at 22:55 by
ChEeTaH -
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Over the past few days four new screenshots and five artworks for Nightlife have appeared on the web. The screenshots come from the official
German site, the artworks have been posted by several sites (
SimsWorld seemed to be the first). The artworks were included on a press CD given away during Tim's presentation in France. You can find all the graphics below.
312. Nightlife in England
Written on Sunday 3 July 2005 at 06:00 by Andy -
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Last week, ChEeTaH went to see Tim Le Tourneau's presentation of
"Nightlife in Amsterdam" and for those of you who haven't read it, I recommend you do it now. This will answer a lot of your questions as even though I may cover some of the same ground, this article is more of an expansion on that previous article.
What follows is my peek at "Nightlife" when Tim came to England.
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313. TS2 Console and Handhelds Screenshots
Written on Thursday 30 June 2005 at 20:01 by
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314. Nightlife Developer Interview
Written on Tuesday 28 June 2005 at 14:46 by
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Tim LeTourneau is a lot in the news these days. Last week
GameSpot posted an interview - written and on video - with Tim, all about Nightlife. In the written interview, Tim talks about the new features, like the pleasure aspiration, its wants and fears, career tracks such pleasure seekers are interested in, and more. About the career tracks, Tim tells that Pleasure seekers will like job hopping, and are often interested in switching to a new career. There are also several dining options in the new dining system, and besides the Gypsy matchmaker and Mrs. Crumplebottom there will also be a diva. You can
read the interview for the details.
In the video interview, Tim talks about the same themes, but in different words. Nightlife is all about Sims having fun. The pleasure aspiration will tie in with the original game and University, and naturally it matches the Nightlife theme as well. Tim also says the dating etc. was still missing from the Sims 2, as it's something people do in everyday life, but wasn't possible with Sims yet. Tim also talks about story telling for a while, which he says is a key element in the game. You can check out the
movie, either as free stream (GameSpot Basic account required), or a download for Complete members, of about 114 or 52 Mb. Finally, there are also three new screenshots attached to the interview. You can see those below.
315. Nightlife in Amsterdam
Written on Sunday 26 June 2005 at 04:43 by
ChEeTaH -
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We already
announced we'd be meeting Tim LeTourneau, and yesterday we did. At a presentation in Amsterdam, exclusive for Sims fans and webmasters, Tim showed off Nightlife. Naturally we took home a lot of brand new info and pictures. About cars, vampires, downtown, content, and more - we got to know quite a lot. If your question hasn't been answered yet, then don't worry. There is one more opportunity for us next week, so if you have any questions ask them by posting them here as a comment, or drop me an
e-mail. Any questions that have already been submitted don't need to be sent again of course. We cannot guarantee we will ask your question, but we'll do our best to get as much info as possible out. Read on for the details and pictures of yesterday's event.
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316. Nightlife Screens and Video
Written on Thursday 23 June 2005 at 02:18 by
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Maxis has updated the official site with two new bowling screenshots of Nightlife, and a movie. The movie shows a bar where a Sim successfully flirts with another one. It can be found on the
videos page. It's not a very long video, but it gives you a little glimpse of what's new in Nightlife. The screenshots, from the
screenshots page can be seen by going there or clicking the thumbnails below.
317. Object and NL Fansite Kit
Written on Tuesday 21 June 2005 at 01:11 by
ChEeTaH -
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Maxis has updated the official site last friday with a new father's day object, the
Nikko Lounge Chair, and a fansite kit for Nightlife. The object is a chair providing superlative comfort and design. For about a half Mb you can download it from the
exchange, and see for yourself. The fansite kit is as usual packed with quite a few graphics. Among them are three pack shots, which show that the game seems to be released in a DVD-style case in the US as well. The new EA logo can also be seen on them, rather than EA Games. Besides that, there are some screenshots in the pack of which two are new, and there are two wallpapers. Click the thumbnails, or for the wallpapers the desired resolution, to see the graphics. Note that they might be very big, especially the box shots. To download the entire fansite kit you have to agree to
its license, where you can find a link at the bottom. Besides mentioned graphics, you'll also find an info sheet and a trailer in there.
Pack shots:
Screenshots:
Wallpapers:
318. SimDay - Chat Transcript and Postcards
Written on Saturday 18 June 2005 at 00:42 by
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The official site has been updated quite irregularly the past few weeks. Besides the new intro showcasing some bikinis for this summer, something else not reported on was a SimMaster of the Month (June) interview. SimMasterRalph was chosen as SimMaster of the Month this time, and gives some insight in what he does in
the interview. Another feature recently launched is the
Post Office. This place allows you to send e-mail cards to your friends. It started with a graduation card, but today a birthday and party card were added to the collection. Go to the
post office to send the cards.
Yesterday was also the night a
developer chat was held. It lasted just 30 minutes, but that doesn't mean there was no new information about Nightlife. To the contrary, Tim, Lyndsay and Hunter gave us some new info. The
transcript is up, but you can also read on for some highlights of the new details.
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319. Summer Time
Written on Thursday 16 June 2005 at 00:41 by Starrats -
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I found a beautiful mesh while I was surfing on the internet, and I just had to skin it, so here are
4 summerdresses.
And I really want to thank Crechebaby @
Simchic, because she made this mesh.
320. Nightlife Screens and Details
Written on Wednesday 8 June 2005 at 01:23 by
ChEeTaH -
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GameSpot has posted three new screenshots of Nightlife, from the E3 demo. They give a small impression of what the Hub looks like, what dating is like, Mrs. Crumplebottom and of course a new car. You can see the screens by clicking the thumbnails below. The German box shot has also been released, and although that would normally not be of much interest, this time the "EA" brand (instead of "EA Games") is quite notable (see
earlier news). There's still no official confirmation about that, but it seems very likely EA Games has been changed to EA. The box shot is the fourth picture below. Other than that there's a lot more info given by Hunter Howe, developer of Nightlife, on the
official BBS. In several posts (
this,
this,
this,
this and
this) he gives away some details of the new expansion pack. Read on for those details.
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