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 January News January 30, 2001 Gamespot has posted a preview of the Sims House Party. You'll find an exert from the article below. One of the most popular games of last year--and the winner of our Game of the Year award for 2000--was Maxis and Electronic Arts' The Sims. The game took the same level of interactivity found in designer Will Wright's classic Sim City games and focused it down to the household level. The Sims let you create your own dream family, dream house, and dream neighborhood to make up for the shortcomings of your real-life family, house, and neighborhood--at least some would argue, anyway. Last summer, Maxis released an expansion for The Sims, entitled Livin' Large, which added five new career paths and hundreds of new items that enhanced the already addictive qualities of the original game. Maxis and Electronic Arts are looking to capitalize on the success of The Sims series with yet another expansion pack called House Party. Unlike Livin' Large, however, House Party is all about getting your sims to have a good time. The add-on won't feature any new careers for your sims to follow, but there will be three new décor motifs and numerous items designed to encourage you to throw the wildest party your block has ever seen. Shortly after the expansion pack's announcement, we sat down with Maxis producer Tim LeTourneau to find out more about the upcoming House Party. Newsweek also found The Sims an interesting topic as they previewed the upcoming Sims Online. You can read the article in its entirety here January 28, 2001 The release date for House Party is set for sometime in April and a release date in the April/May area is being looked at for Simville. January 27, 2001 Game Center has named The Sims the best computer title of 2000 in their recent feature January 26, 2001 The Sims Resource has posted the transcript from yesterday's Sim House Party chat. The game sounds really cool. I left out a few things from yesterday's Sim Day, for one Maxis opened the House Party costume contest and they also posted a FAQ on the upcoming game. Simz Online is back up after some down time, it makes it a little easier to find all the news I haven't posted January 25, 2001 Today The Sims.com held a chat with the design team from The Sims House party at 4 o'clock (I don't know why I'm posting this, I also don't know why Maxis would hold a chat while most people are at work either. I suppose its b/c the people at maxis don't like working after hours any more than we do.) Anyway I've begun rambling, so in closing I'm sure they'll have a transcript of the chat next Thursday or sooner. Two prominent sim sites have been down over the past few days Home Sims is back up and Simz Online should be back up shortly January 24, 2001 The Sim Community has suffered a great loss today. S.M. Lust and Atomic of Disturbed Sims have left their site because of the cloning of an object by another webmaster. So the other webmasters have created a pole to show how much the community appreciates their work and to encourage them to come back. I really encourage you to vote because they have som really awesome downloads. January 23,2001 The Sims Tattoo Parlor will be closing its doors on Febuary 16 after almost a year of providing unique sim fashions. Simply Sims has developed a new download, Duey Dorkingbird, check it out. January 19,2001 The Outer Edge has posted an early preview of the Sims House Party, it sounds like it will be another top notch sim game from the people at Maxis. January 18,2001 EA placed second behind Nintendo in PC Data's Top Publishers of 2000 Standings, selling about 12 million copies of their products Bil Simser, the creator of Blueprint has suggested the use of SIF (Sim Information Files) with all user created objects January 17, 2001 Well this is what you've been waiting for Simsters. Maxis has announced a new Sims Expansion Pack to be released in the spring. It's called Sim House Party and it allows your sims to have access to parties easier, it also has dozens of new objects. Visit the official site for more. Maxis is also holding a costume contest this week. The newest Neighborhood Handler is now available. You can download version 3.0 at Sim Fusion January 15, 2001 This weeks Sim Day Maxis announces a new contest for this week it features Valentine's Day love stories check it out at the official site. |
