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831. The Sims Double Deluxe!

Written on Sunday 24 August 2003 at 20:17 by Stash - 0 comments.

Maxis is making yet another repackaging of The Sims 1 and expansion packs for those people who still haven't found The Sims yet. As if "The Sims Deluxe Edition" was not enough, Maxis brings us "The Sims Double Deluxe". "The Sims Double Deluxe" will enclude all the content of the original "The Sims" game, "The Sims: Livin` Large expansion pack", "The Sims: House Party expansion pack", plus two exclusive Decorator Sets (Japanese and African sets). The game is set for release in September 2003 . Bonus content will also be a part of this must-have collection including dozens of new walls, floors, and objects in African and Asian design themes. For all current Sims players, this bonus material will be available as a free download at TheSims.com! Each week Maxis will feature a download of the new obejcts from this pack.

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832. SimDay: Interview and Article

Written on Thursday 14 August 2003 at 23:37 by Steve - 0 comments.

It's Thursday and it's SimDay. This SimDay Maxis have not really done anything for us. It's also been a quiet week in the community. For SimDay, Maxis have given us links to an interview by Computer And Video Games.com, and an article at GameSpot; both on The Sims 2.

The Computer And Video Games.com interview, with Destry Davison (Associate Producer of The Sims 2), contains very little we haven't heard many times in many other places. It tells us again about the "Life Score" and DNA. One subject it does touch on that I have heard very little about is the subject of sex. On this subject Davidson says:

"We have to pass the ratings board because we have such a wide audience. So we can't get too steamy. Under the covers, tastefully done, that kind of thing."

To read the full interview by Computer And Video Games.com click here.

Unfortunately the article at GameSpot, although an interesting read, it does overlap somewhat with the interview, and many other articles that are floating around. It does however give us this little piece of information, which I certainly did not know about:

"The face designing tool will let you design two prospective parents and then actually see how their children might look."

To read this GameSpot article in full, click here.

833. It's back...

Written on Thursday 14 August 2003 at 02:17 by Andy - 8 comments.

834. 2 Doors flying right by

Written on Wednesday 13 August 2003 at 18:21 by Sumit - 0 comments.

Here's 2 Oak doors. Yes they look quite similar to the originals but they are not. They have a light oak texture to give your home that somber look, and just in time as the schools start opening and little sims need a nice entrance out of your hectic summer days.

835. SimDay Part 2: more screenshots

Written on Friday 1 August 2003 at 17:11 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

SimDay wasn't over when I posted about it last night: Maxis has added 2 more screenshots and 3 object renders to the collection. The renders seem to come from the survey. To see all 5 new graphics, click here. Here's one of the screenshots:

836. The Sims Makin' Magic Survey

Written on Wednesday 30 July 2003 at 21:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A thing we've seemed to mist since the box-shot: it came from a survey, apparantly. It's all about The Sims, and apparantly they want to know more about your experience with The Sims and its expansion packs. They ask several questions about the new expansion pack, like whether you'll buy it or not, if you've heard about it, and what you know about it. They have several final titles that might make it: "Makin' Magic", "Spellbound" (which we've heard before), "9 to 5", "College Bound", or "Global Travels". I doubt some names will be used for Makin' Magic, but maybe they'll be used for an expansion pack for The Sims 2. You can take the survey right here. Besides all the questions, there are also some more box shots, and a couple of pictures of objects (of which you've already seen a couple on the 2 screenshots). The boxes are for the titles Makin' Magic and Spellbound (click to enlarge):


For the objects pictures, just take the survey. Thanks to both Sims Extremos and our affiliate The Sim's Stash for info about the survey.

837. Makin' Magic box shot

Written on Sunday 27 July 2003 at 15:03 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

Our affiliate MadSims.Net has posted the box art for the new expansion, Makin' Magic. Thanks to them, who got it from Tiger, we can now show it to you too. Here it is:

838. We're back... sort of [Update 2]

Written on Sunday 27 July 2003 at 14:36 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Our regular visitors may have noticed this site's been offline for a while since Friday. We've been transferred to a new server (according to our host it should be faster and more reliable), which is now up and running. Currently, only thesimszone.com is working, our .co.uk domain still has been updated (and will be working soon). That should be done soon, and we hope that will be working again later this week. It will be back completely by Wednesday. Unfortunately, the back-up of our database was done before the site was taken offline, so we've lost several things since the site got deleted: all member sign-ups, votes in the poll and a news post about the last SimDay have gone lost. Those who signed up Thursday or Friday might have to sign up again. Please try logging in first, if it says your username is invalid you know you have to register again. You can use the same username as before. If you're lucky you can vote in the poll again. If not, there's unfortunately nothing you can do - you'll be able to vote again in the next poll that will be posted on Thursday as usual.

We also still have a few things to set up. E-mails will arrive, but they might not arrive at the right person. Also we still need to set up a few things to get the donation files working again. There might be another few minor things to go through.

If you sent us an email recently and we haven't replied to it, or we still have to add/change your link, help you out, whatsoever, just e-mail me and I'll make sure you get the help you need.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the move and the downtime. The Sims Zone is now back and running as normal, except for the .co.uk domain not working just yet.

[Update 28 July 2003, 0:30] Our thesimszone.co.uk domain has been updated, and will be active again within 24-48 hours (depending on your ISP). It might still need some tweaking once it's up, but we should be back completely again by Wednesday. E-mails might not (properly) arrive for another 24 hours though. Please do not send us emails today, wait until 29 July. Thank you.

[Update 31 July 2003, 10:20] It's all working again now, both .co.uk and .com. We'll soon be swapping the domains back, so thesimszone.co.uk will be our main domain. Besides that I'll be making a fix to make the time show correctly again (it's 1 hour behind now). All of that should be fixed soon.

Now: on to the news that you've missed while The Sims Zone was offline, including the SimDay... Read More!

839. Sims 2 articles, shots and a movie

Written on Sunday 20 July 2003 at 00:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

There's 1 new preview, a developer diary (part 1), 2 screenshots and a new movie all of The Sims 2. Most of it comes from GameSpot, but let's first check out this preview at EuroGamer. That one's pretty much like what we've seen before. They first tell us about an old game on Commodore64, which was called "Alter Ego". Then they go on about The Sims 2. They haven't been able to play it themselves, they only got to watch a demo. That demo is a few months old now, and the review doesn't give very much news. Then there's a designer's diary, the first part of a series in which designers and developers of Maxis will tell about the progress of The Sims 2. First up is Tim LeTourneau, who talks 2 pages long about the beginning of the sequel to our favourite game... Read More!

840. SimDay: is that all?

Written on Thursday 17 July 2003 at 20:54 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay isn't much: just 4 new songs from the SuperStar cd and some links. The songs released this week are 'Glabe Glarn', 'The Spa Treatment', 'Frettesche' and '8x10 Glossy'. The final 2 tracks will probably be released next week. You can download the music from this page. Besides that, there are links to articles from Camp EA. Besides IGN and GameSpot (which we reported about), there are links to screenshot pages of GameSpy. However, it seems they haven't posted anything but those screenshots. For Makin' Magic details, check out this news, Bustin' Out is in this news (GameSpot) and this news (IGN). Besides that the official site has posted the Makin' Magic 'announcement' - which apparantly isn't official ("Although not officially announced...") - last friday. It's all on the official site. That's it again this week, not much new but it's something.