Sorry I'm a bit slow with news, but I'm working on Sims 3 infopages and that takes more time then expected. Below news from the past days:
Grants house This house was shown in one of the Sims 3 trailers and now you can play with it yourself. TheSims3.com has placed this house on the Exchange including its 3 inhabitants.
Get it here: Grants house
Sims 3 horror movie Another update from theSims3.com is a new scary Sims 3 trailer.
Watch it here: New movie
IGN about expansions IGN posted a small article about past Sims expansions here: IGN article
Site news
29 June
A small site update. The Sims 3 Infocenter has been updated with careerinfo. Salary, workdays, perks and more for all careers can be found there. Part-time jobs will be added later.
Check it here: Sims 3 careers Thanks to Missing Studios for some of the info.
Sims 3 Patch
25 June
For those starting up their Sims 3 game, you have noticed the message of a new patch. Several people are having problems with this patch, like unable to install or game problems.
I too have experienced this and fortunately, after re-installing the patch worked. It seems that certain mods, like the censorpatch causes this. If you have a backup of the original file, first place it back before applying the patch. If you haven't, search for it on the game cd.
Check the Sims 3 forum for more possible solutions: TheSims3.com forum
Plantguide
25 June
Gardening is a big feature in The Sims 3, but with so many types of plants and fertilizers, it may become a bit complicated. On Asilee.com, you can find a big guide about gardening (as well as several other sims guides).
Check it here: Asilee gardening guide
Note that I'm also working on several guides. But since the Primaguide (my main source of info) contains so many errors, I need to check all the facts in the game which takes alot of time. The list of careers is now 50% ready and hope to complete it coming weekend.
Homeless Sims
24 June
I'm not really sure what the deal is with the popularity of these homeless Sims stories.
2 Weeks ago, a story about 2 homeless characters was started, Alice and Kev. It got worldwide attention including a mention on the Sims3.com. And the story is still running.
Read the blogstory here: Alice and Kev blog
But now there's some competition by Gaming Nexus. They also started a homeless story about the characters Sara and Mike.
Check it here: Sara and Mike part 1 - Sara and Mike part 2
EA about Sims 3 piracy
23 June
The boss of EA, John Riccitiello, said in a big interview by Industrygamers that they saw the pirated Sims 3 version as a demo. Though it was pirated hundreds of thousands of times, many bought the legal copy once it was for sale. He further talks a lot about the future of games and how to deal with piracy by, for example move more to an online environment.
Read the interview here: Industrygamers interview
Sims 3 expansions
19 June
The first sightings of upcoming expansionpacks for Sims 3 have been found. Sim Times found no less then three titles on a South African online store. 1 Stuff pack and 2 expansionpacks are supposed to be released in November (though these dates may certainly be changed).
Check the (unnamed) titles here: Expansion 1 - Expansion 2 - Stuff pack
New poll
15 June
Time for a new poll. This weeks question is if you still play Sims 2. Click here to vote: New poll.
Last poll question was if you're having technical problems with Sims 3. It's good to see that the majority of Sims 3 players have none or just a few minor problems. Though the percentage of people with big problems is pretty small, if this percentage could be used for all sold games, it's still quite a big number.
4866 people voted and here are the results:
Are you having technical problems with Sims 3?
- No, none what so ever: 28% - Just a few minor problems: 33% - Yes, I have quite a few big problems: 14% - The game won't even start up!: 4% - I don't have Sims 3 (yet): 22%
Sims 3 guides
14 June
1Up guide Gamenews site 1Up.com started a big guide on Sims 3. It's still work in progress but there are a few pages finished already.
Check it here: 1Up guide Thanks to Sims 3 nieuws for this update.
IGN guide IGN as well has started such a guide. One part is completed; A so called bugreport guide.
Check it out here: IGN guide
Misc. news
12 June
Graphic settings Pcgameshardware.com posted a cool article about the graphic options in The Sims 3. They look at all the possible options and how it impacts the performance. Interesting is that setting a certain minor option lower (like the draw distance), gives a big boost in performance while lowering others do nothing at all.
Check the article here: Pcgameshardware article
Interview Fragland had a small interview with Sims 3 producer Melanie Lam here: Fragland.net
