Vise Sims| Sims News and Rumours and Support: March 2009

31 March 2009

the real story behind the sims3 delay

As no two weeks before the official release of The Sims 3 was announced a postponement, the Sim-fans - understandably - very disappointed, especially since no real reasons of EA for the shift mentioned above. They spoke only generally assumed that one more time for marketing needs.
Now EA has this, but to speak. The reason for the postponement of The Sims 3 is in a serious bug in the testing phase shortly before the planned release was found. When babies in the neighborhood come to the world, the computer assigns a name for the offspring. It appeared on the bow: from the second generation were all male Sims Will Wright's name and all female Sims named John Riccitiello, without that the name be changed.
As this error could arise, the developer is still incomprehensible. Currently we are still working to resolve this bug. Press the thumb that he had to 4th June has been rectified.

30 March 2009

Warning: Playable Sims3 DEMO is a Virus

Warning: A couple a days ago there was a Playable demo of the Sims 3 on the sims2 BBS,Facebook and other sites on the internet, just to let you know its a virus for both Mac and PC. ( Mac users, Yes there is virus on the Mac so don't get cocky that your safe) So if you see any website telling you there's a playable demo of The Sims 3 please don't bother to download it because it will mess up your computer.

29 March 2009

Sims3 Billboard

The Sims 3 in San Francisco near the Bay Bridge

28 March 2009

Visesims Closed

Visesims Will be closed for 24 hours while were fixing a major problem with out servers and blogger

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MJ Chun Interview

MJ Chun Interview: Found 2 videos from Sims-3.net, interviewing Associate Producer, MJ Chun.

26 March 2009

No DRM in Sims 3 + Creators Camp 8 + New VIP

No DDM in Sims3:Rod Humble wrote that The Sims 3 won't have the much hated DRM. There's no online authentication needed but instead a simple serial code to type in just like The Sims 2.
Check the full letter here: TheSims3.com news

Creators Camp 8:

This week, a look at the creations from Babylonia and Ulkrhsn.
Check it here: Creator's Camp event

Also, a new official Sims 3 movie was posted at Gamespot here: New movie

New VIP:
26 March

A new VIP has been posted. Grant writes a bit about some odd examples of facial hair for the creators...
Check the new entry here: Sims3.com VIP (19855)

Gamestop Preview and Sims3 screensavers

Gamestop posted a new sims3 preview: Gamespot article

CWTVv.com posted a page full of Sims 3 screenshots and screensavers.
Check it out here: One Tree Hill

Template Updated

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Deleted ugly template

User Interface cleaner

25 March 2009

Visesims IE8 Compatible

We made small changes to the site so people who use Internet Explorer 8 can view visesims with no problems.

Also, expect more changes to the site

22 March 2009

Sims3 iPhone Preview

Hey Guys, just to let you know at apples Iphone 3.0 keynote EA showed the sims3 for iPod touch and iPhone and i found this video showing off the sims3 on iPhone and iPod Touch.

Sims 3 - MAC Requirements

Source: Sims 3 Maniacos

MAC OS
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or Higher

Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory
2 GB

HDD

6.1 GB of hard disk space, with at least 1 GB additional space for saved games and custom content.

Vídeo

ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of RAM or Intel Integrated GMA X3100

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon ™ X1600, X1900, 2400, 2600, 3870, 4850, 4870, NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800, 9400M, 9600M GT, GT 120, GT 130, Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) GMA 3-Series . This game will not run on Mac systems with processor PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) or video cards with integrated GMA 950 series.

21 March 2009

March UPDATE

Sims 3 soundtrack
EA has posted the complete list of soundtracks for The Sims 3 game on EA Trax. On this site, you can listen to all 15 musictracks.
Check it out here: EA Trax
Thanks to SimOperations for the find.

Register your Sims 3 username
If you want to keep your Sims 2 username for the Sims 3 site as well, you can now, for a limited time, tranfer it over.
Get to the following site to do this: TheSims2.com-preregister

More Uk event details
Even more information from the Uk hands-on event has been posted at the official Uk sims forum.
Find it all here: Uk hands-on event

French tour video 9
The 9th movie from the French tour to EA has been posted.
Check it here: Jeuxvideo.com movie

Sims 3 AI at GDC
Richard Evans, AI Engineer at EA will have 2 seminars at the upcoming GDC. He will speak about AI in characters like those in Sims 3. The talks are on coming monday and tuesday. It is unsure if information from these seminars are made public.
Find more info here: GDC-09
Thanks to Sims 3 nieuws for the find.

A new interview with MJ Chun has been posted by Computerandvideogames.com.
Check the article here: New interview

20 March 2009

Sims3 UPDATE

The first info from the Sims 3 hands-on event in the Uk is posted in the official Uk Sims forum. Here's an interesting answer:

"How do you switch between families?"
You can change the family that you are playing by using the Active Household button. In the information screens it does say that if you elect to change the playable family then your current ones will have their wishes and opportunities removed. Then those Sims will continue to age and live as normal while you are playing the new family.
Check the very long info list here: Uk Sims forumpost

(Thanks to snootysims.com for the find)

Creator's Camp Week 7:

Sims3.com has posted Creators camp week 7 which you can view Here

18 March 2009

Sims3 interview with MJ Chun

new interview with MJ Chun which talks alot about DRM:

Check the article here: Videogamer interview

Sims3 For iPod Touch/iPhone Pictures

The first info and images of the Sims 3 showing off at the iPhone 3.0 preview event .

you can watch the full keynote or skip the part to EA’S keynote showing off the sims3 for iPhone/iTouch Here: http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0903lajkszg/event/index.html

(Snooty Sims got the information wrong about “IPOD”)

15 March 2009

Sims3 March UPDATE 2

A Sims 3 preview can be found on Totalvideogames.com

The New York times comes with an article about a new home design tool. There are more of these tools online, but this one is actually based upon the Sims!

"We discovered there were tons of people modeling their living rooms in the Sims video game," said Mike Haley, a director of engineering at Autodesk. "Now they can design realistic spaces."
Check the links here: NY Times article - Autodesk tool

History of Godgames
TechRadar posted an article about Godgames. And ofcourse since the Sims series is a good example of a godgame, it is mentioned often.
Check the article here: TechRadar article

Thanks Snootysims.com for the wonderful news

13 March 2009

Visesims Language Support: GREEK

Visesims now supports the Greek language for our Greek readers.

Sims3 March NEWS

Eurogamer: They talk with MJ Chun and discuss Traits, the Neighborhood and more. Eurogamer preview

Hands-on event
The official UK Sims forum posted a message that certain people will get the chance to check out The Sims 3. Each person will concentrate on a certain aspect of the game like CAS, Traits, the Neighborhood and others.
Post your questions in the forum here: UK Sims forum

Sims3.com updated
And lastly, TheSims3.com updated with many screenshots. They're not new, but I thought I'd mention it anyway since the official site gets a lot of criticism lately for not updating that often.