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In the 'Walls & Floors" section are several new walls added today. In the Walls section, 9 new walls made by Shimonade and in the Collections section, 20 new walls and several floors made by Schweighsr.
I wanted to add some Bodyshop items too, but I've been working on some other parts of the site. So those will be added coming weekend. |
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| Will Wright interview |
2 February |
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| The members from the forum from the official UK Sims site could ask some questions to Will Wright. This interview took place and you can read it here: Will Wright interview.
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Simday is here and it had several news items:
- The Sims 2 Receives Simulation Of The Year Award. This award was given by The Academy Of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
- The Onion interviews Will Wright. It's just alittle bit about Sims 2, but it's still interesting to read some things about the creator of the Sims. Go read it here: Will Wright interview.
- New The Sims 2 University Screenshots. A small article with some screenshots but no new pics though. Read it here: Uni article.
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| The cheats section is updated with the latest cheats. Most of them were already mentioned a couple weeks ago, but now they are easily devided into sections. Some new ones are added as well.
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| Object creation tool |
6 February |
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I may be a bit late with this, but a couple weeks ago, the site 'Mod The Sims 2' released a mesh tool that makes it possible to create entirely new objects into the Sims 2. Since Maxis said never to make an objectcreation tool, we can be very thankful for those that helped to create this tool.
Dozens of new objects have already been released. Check out the following forum where creators have published their objects for testing. ModTheSims2 forum
Also several sites have already started to create new objects like Sunair sims, Simfantasy and Simagination.
Later today, the Links section will be totally updated with more download sites and tomorrow I'll have some other link news.
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Time for a new poll. This weeks question is how many expansions Sims 2 will get. Click here to vote: New poll.
Last poll question was if you often visit a community lot. It seems that not many people visit often. 1427 people voted and here are the results:
Do you often visit a community lot?
- I'm there almost all the time!: 2%
- Yes I go there often: 9%
- Every now and then: 56%
- No hardly ever...: 33%
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| 5 year anniversy Sims 2 |
7 February |
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This month, the Sims franchise celebrates its fifth anniversary. EA announced this in an official press release.
Some figures:
The #1 selling PC game in four out of the last five years. Since 2000, the franchise has spawned 7 expansion packs, been translated into over 17 languages and has sold more than 54 million units worldwide. The Sims 2 became the fastest-selling PC game. In just five months, sales have already reached over 4.5 million units worldwide.
Read the complete press release here: Press release.
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| Featured Fansite |
13 February |
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As you may have noticed on the right, there is now a Featured Fansite.
I get alot of requests for sites wanting to affiliate with Snooty Sims. To prevent getting a huge list, I keep the list to 4. However, I still like to give some attention to other sites; Either small, starting sites, or sites where you can find interesting things.
Every 2 weeks, there will be another fansite on there. This is a great way for sites to get noticed or get more attention.
If you have a fansite that wants to be featured, just mail me. Otherwise I will just pick one from the Fansites section.
Sites that won't be featured are 100% adult simsites (some nudeskins is ok though) seeing lots of young people visit this site, and also paysites with no free content.
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Time for a new poll. This weeks question is if you're exited for University yet. Click here to vote: New poll.
Last poll question was how many expansions Sims 2 will get. Most people expect Sims 2 will get the same amount of expansions as Sims 1. 1329 people voted and here are the results:
How many expansions will Sims 2 get?
- Less then 6: 13%
- 6: 15%
- 7, just like Sims 1: 44%
- 8: 12%
- More then 8: 16%
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For valentine, Maxis created a special object. It's a decorative sculpture of Cupid.
Go download it here: New Maxis object |
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The fifth Tim-mail arrived and it's a bit of a continuation of valentine with also a new picture.
Check out the mail here: Tim-Mail 5 |
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IGN posted a new movie about University. It's a pretty long movie (8 min.) and is about 34 Mb. In this movie, Tim LeTourneau takes a tour through several aspects of the game like moving into the dorms, using influence on other sims, having parties, studying, and much more.
Check out this movie here: University movie |
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Simday is here. First of all, for those that had trouble with the rival musicbands movie from Gamespot; It's now on the Sims2.com site here.
Also there are 3 new wallpapers for your desktop here: Desktop wallpaper.
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| 'Letters Home' 3 |
19 February |
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GameSpy posted their 3rd 'Letters Home' article. In this, she is in her junior year and talks about the secret society.
Check it out here: Letters Home 3 |
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A new Sims article can be found on Digit Online. They take a looks at the team behind The Sims series.
It's an interesting article where several members of the Maxis team look back how it all started and some of their own experiences.
Go read it here: Digit Online article.
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Now for the new poll. This weeks question is if you will send your sims to University or not.. Click here to vote: New poll.
Last poll question was if you're exited for University yet. Most people are indeed quite exited for the expansion; 80% is really looking forward to it. 1462 people voted and here are the results:
Are you exited for University yet?
- Yes I can't wait for it to arrive!: 48%
- Yes, I'm looking forward to it: 32%
- Just alittle bit: 12%
- No not really: 8%
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Again a new Sims article. This time from The Wall Street Journal.
This article is about how some people are making modifications to overcome the G-rated boundaries of the game.
"We don't host naked Sims on our own site, and we try not to link to that stuff. But we also try not to pass moral judgments upon our users," says Caryl Shaw, manager of online services for Maxis.
Read the full article here: Wall Street Journal article.
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IGN posted a 2 page preview 'The College Years, part 1', with no less then 40 new pictures!
Read the preview here: IGN preview
And see the new pictures here: New University pics |
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| It's simday and an unusual download this time; A neighbourhood! Go download it here: Ying-Yang Island
Also IGN already posted part 2 of their 'SimJim: The College Years' with new pictures. Go check it out here: IGN article
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On the official German sims site, you can download a part from the German Prima guide about University. Although all the text is in German, the pictures are not and so it's still quite interesting.
You can download it here: German Prima guide
Just click on 'Jetzt herunterladen'.
To add to this, tifferoo004, a user from Thesims2.com BBS, already has this guide and has written lots of info from it. Go read this topic here: Prima guide info from tifferoo004
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| Gamespy update |
25 February |
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Gamespy has several updates. First of all, they posted their 4th 'Letters home' article. Go read it here: Letters Home 4
They also have a review with a pretty good score of 4.5 out of 5. Read this review here: University review
Further more, they posted some new pictures here: New pictures
 
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The 4th 'SimJim: The College Years' article has been posted at IGN. Go see it here: IGN article
This time also with a movie about this article. See that one here: IGN movie
Based on the info from tifferoo004 taken from the Prima guide, I've made list of the new University careers with all the requirements. See that one here: University careerlist
Also the first 2 University cheats are known:
boolprop dormspecific-toolsdisabled false To modify existing dorms, while in the dorm
changelot-zoning dorm To make a dorm from scratch on a residential lot in a blank neighborhood.
Although they aren't tested yet, they are from the Prima guide so they should work.
And finally, 5 new pictures from the official German sim site:
    
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| Will Wright interview |
26 February |
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Gamespy posted the first part of a pretty long interview with the creator of the Sims, Will Wright. In this interview they go way back in the past and talk about how The Sims all started.
Go read it here: Will Wright Interview
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| The Sims 2: Nightlife? |
27 February |
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On Modthesims2.com, someone posted a picture of the supposedly next Sims 2 expansionpack named: "The Sims 2: Nightlife". It comes from the University case. Although this may be a hoax, it looks pretty good.
Update: On both www.whois.com and www.betterwhois.com, you can see that www.thesims2nightlife.com is registered by EA. |
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Time for a new poll. This weeks question is (no suprise) what you think about the next expansion, Nightlife. Click here to vote: New poll.
Last poll question was if you will send your sims to University. Most people indeed will do that; 90% will send most sims to Uni. Alot of voters this time; 1703 to be exact. Below are the results:
Will you send your sims to University?
- Yes all of them!: 38%
- Not all, but most will go: 52%
- Maybe just some sims: 9%
- No I only get it for the new objects: 1%
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