In my role as human newsfeeder, I bring you these snippets of tasty goodness.

Zazazu's Observations about Sims 3:

1. There's still peeing. Apparently, the pee is occuring in multiple shapes.
2. There are 11 voice actors.
3. Lots of the people who work on the project like Oblivion and D&D stuff. They're like us! WOW!
4. Rod Humble's a hardcore gamer, in ( Read more... )

Jordan Alexander shared some scans from UK magazine PC Gamer.

Snooty Sims is sharing pictures and discussing Sims 3, too.

Even Business Week is interested.

The biggest change to The Sims 3 is that it takes place in a wide-open, constantly changing neighborhood - a much bigger sandbox, if you will, and a much more complex simulation. The town and park ( Read more... )

I laughed out loud.

http://thesimsresource.info/

Sorry for being so quiet. Real life has been super-busy. (Play the Sims 2? What's that? Oh, yeah, something fun I used to do.)

Hope all are well in Simland. Cheers!

New non-Sims game: Free Rice.

Can you beat my score? 860 grains of rice before I missed a word.

Final total: gave 10,000 grains of rice, earned level 50 Word Power score. W00t!

Feed the hungry, learn vocabulary words.

It's easy, and you help less-fortunate people be less hungry for a while.

Share the link in your blog; the more people who play, the ( Read more... )

MaxoidTom bumbled into MATY, was eager to please as a new puppy. Alas, the hornets were ANGRY. Computers were melting down, anti-virus programs were zorched, DVD/CD-r drives were acting up,  media burning software was screwing up, and it was all down to SecurROM, which had been installed with Bon Voyage but without user agreement.

He asked for and ( Read more... )

I could have sworn I'd posted these earlier. MaxoidTom visited MATY and wanted to know why everyone was so pissed off about SecuROM being bundled in with Bon Voyage. He then asked for feedback, and got it in spades. He never knew what hit him!

Dear MaxoidTom:

On a non-game-construction / bug front, some of us are also weary of Maxoids and EA Legal ( Read more... )

My apologies to anyone inconvenienced by my 4shared filesharing site being down for a week. I got busy with midterms and didn't log in often enough, it expired (ZOMG! Hate when that happens!), and had to re-upload all the data ( Read more... )

If you wandered into the EA Sims 2 BBS lately (why?!), you may or may not have seen a bajillion posts with ALLCAPS and lots of exclamation marks bemoaning the fact that Sony's crappy copy protection program, SecuROM, was installed with Bon Voyage. Actually, H&M, Celebrations, Sims 2 Deluxe and (I believe) Pet Stories also had SecuROM, but SecuROM ( Read more... )

A typical Simmy day in SimWorld:

Simary: I GREET YOU.
Simyrtle: I GREET YOU. GREEN PLUS, GREEN PLUS, GREEN SMILEY FACES.
Simary: GREEN PLUS, GREEN PLUS, GREEN SMILEY FACES. ALIEN HEAD.
Simyrtle: ALIEN HEAD. GREEN PLUS, GREEN PLUS.
Simary: GREEN PLUS, GREEN PLUS. BOWL OF GRUEL.
Simyrtle: BOWL OF GRUEL. RED MINUS.
Simary: RED MINUS, huh? Okay. Um, what ( Read more... )

Nelson Laugh Award: First, a comment from me.After all the disinformation TSR and some paysiters tried to promote about EA changing the EULA for Bon Voyage to allow commercial profit off EA's property, it turns out that the EULA is exactly the same as it ever was. What a surprise. Also, Nelson is, of course, the big bully from The Simpsons. Join me ( Read more... )