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701. T-Mail 6 - The End

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 10:28 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Because University has officially shipped, Tim has sent his last community e-mail regarding this expansion pack. He once again gives some basic info of the expansion, and says goodbye for now. He will be back in a few weeks though, quite possibly for Nightlife. For now he's sent another movie, and two wallpapers to download. You can find those below. Read on for Tim's exact words.

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702. Wright Interview Part 2

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 00:47 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After posting part 1 of an interview with Will Wright, GameSpy has now posted the second part of the interview as well. This time, Will talks a bit more about the community and legal issues, expansion packs, the Sims Online and his secret project, with the rumoured name SPORE. You can read the rest of the interview starting at page 5 of the article.

703. University Info and Cheats from Guide

Written on Sunday 27 February 2005 at 15:57 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Prima guide for the first expansion pack of the Sims 2 has shipped to several people already, and some of them are posting a lot of information from the guide. In one big thread on the official BBS tifferoo004 has posted a lot of information from the guide. Included is information about the new careers and rewards, the influence system, changes to the aspiration system, zombies, and a lot more. On the official German site an excerpt of the guide is available for download. They've posted chapter 3 of the guide, in Acrobat format. That part is in German though. Finally, SnootySims has published two cheats from the guide, which allow you to edit and create dorms:

boolProp dormSpecificToolsDisabled [true/false] allows you to set if building tools are disabled (true) or not (false). Set it to false to allow changing of dorms

changeLotZoning dorm changes the loaded lot into a dorm. This allows you to create a residential home from scratch and turn it into dorms.

If you want to get the guide with all the information yourself, check out our shop to order it.

 

704. GameSpy Interviews Will Wright

Written on Sunday 27 February 2005 at 15:07 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After IndyStar and many others, GameSpy has now also interviewed Will Wright. He talks a lot about the past 5 years the Sims has existed now, and the time before that. How Will started the initial development, how the team grew, and how he had to make Maxis, his own company, enthousiastic about the game (contrary to EA as earlier stories tell):

"Fargo: Now I understand it took you a long time to find a publisher at first? ...no?

"Wright: For SimCity it did. For The Sims, I'd started Maxis and I was basically trying to get people inside of Maxis enthused about the idea and that's where the battle was. Those people wanted to keep doing SimCity, and they didn't think The Sims made sense. So I was fighting just the internal structure of Maxis... which is the company I'd started!"

Besides that, the creation of the community, pushed by Luc Barthelet, General Manager of Maxis at the time, and a lot of other things about the development for the first game are being discussed. This is only part 1 of the interview, the second part will be posted on Monday. For now, read the first four pages for details.

705. University (P)reviews

Written on Sunday 27 February 2005 at 03:42 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A few articles of the Sims 2 University have been written. They include three articles from series, as well as the first review. Read on for the details. Read More!

706. University Screenshots and TV Commercial

Written on Sunday 27 February 2005 at 03:08 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Two official sites have posted several new screenshots this weekend. The first six come from the American site, while the other four are from the German one. New on the shots are some arcade games, which haven't been showed before. You can also see a prank in action: putting soap in the fountain. Other than that, you can see the band and gym objects again. Click the thumbnails below to see the large versions.

Besides the screenshots, the Maxis has also published the TV commercial for the first expansion pack as download. It's in a similar style as the commercial for the Sims 2 itself, and probably the last one for the Sims made by SEE (read earlier news). You can find the download, QuickTime required, on the University Videos page.

707. SIMposium Special - Preview Part 2

Written on Saturday 26 February 2005 at 00:13 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After our first part was posted a few days ago, we have now finished the preview of the Sims 2 University. The second part covers things like getting your grades, the new careers, influence, lifetime wants, and a lot more. You can find a lot of new information in the preview regarding the expansion pack that will be out next week in the US, and in Europe a week later. We will continue the special coverage again in a few days. Also remember we've had the opportunity to interview Will Wright, so come back here soon for that interview as well! For now, go to our SIMPosium Special to read the complete preview.

708. Invasion of Carpets

Written on Friday 25 February 2005 at 01:47 by Sumit - 0 comments.

RECALL:
Please redownload the Poka Blue Carpet for the newest version 1.1. Provided by changes by Echo, there are some minor bug fixes. As an added bonus, this carpet comes in a pair of two. All files required is in this one download.

I know I said no more rugs, but these will be the last for a while. These new rugs include the same Echo rugs found in Poka Blue v1.1. If you already have Echo rug files from that carpet, there is no reason to overwrite them on top of each other. You just need one pair of Echo's files. Also after many pics later, I found that the pics I took are in very bad quality and small. I hope that is not a big problem. Also another problem in the pictures I took is that the smaller rug looks lighter than the bigger rug. I assure you that was just the retexture tool from The Sims 2 which was highlighting the object...oops. That should be all, enjoy these rugs.

709. SimDay: New Neighborhood Template

Written on Thursday 24 February 2005 at 23:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As often on Thursdays, Maxis updates the official site with several new things. First of all there's a new introduction to advertise the Sims 2 University. Hold your mouse over the Sims there, and you'll see what they're thinking. The navigation bar has also undergone a few changes: links are now underlined when you hold your mouse over them, and the icon your mouse is on no longer moves around when the menu opens op.

When it comes to the actual news items, the first (and second) is about the designer diary that reported the Sims 2 University has gone gold. Really new is the Ying-Yang Island, a SimCity 4 terrain you can use to create a neighbourhood in the Sims 2 with. Extract the zip-file to your "My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SC4Terrains" folder and then create a new neighbourhood in the game to select the terrain. You can find the 235Kb download on the Get Cool Stuff page.

710. Jimmy Jr. at College, Part 2

Written on Thursday 24 February 2005 at 18:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As promised yesterday, IGN has posted part 2 of their story of Jimmy Jr. heading off to college. This second part tells about Jimmy's sophomore year, in which his friends Chuck, Marie and Delilah entered University as well. As you might expect, Jimmy isn't too normal and ends up sleeping on the floor outside his house, after a lack of sleep and caffeine. An empty stomach and full bladder get taken care of afterwards. The article has been posted with 44 new screenshots. To get the details of Jimmy Jr's crazy life at Uni, check out the second part of the feature.