If you view my Raptr profile then you’ll know that I’ve been playing The Sims Social in Facebook this past few days. The Sims Social is EA’s Facebook version of their very popular…
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It’s a sad day for everyone in RPG Empire specially those who are part of Samurai Japan because in less than ten days the sim known as Samurai Japan, together with another sim, will be closed. Seriously, the notice came as a surprise to me because I thought, when Ireland and Scottland were closed, that […]
A month after release one million people discovered a new town in MySims and made it their own!
For the first time it’s your world to transform! Move to a town that has been struggling lately. With a little creativity and some help from the locals, you can make this place thrive. Improve the town to attract new characters, from Italian Chef Gino Delicioso, Florist to Kickboxing Instructor, and DJ Candy Supergroove to arcade owner, Vic Vector and Cap’n Ginny, the town pirate.
Discover what the residents want and need, so that you can help them enjoy life in your Sim’s new town. Design a hot tub or jukebox from scratch, build homes and businesses from the roof to the front door. Uncover special decorations and patterns as you explore the growing town. From the furniture and objects to the buildings to the town as a whole, each of your creations is unique.
System: Wii, DS
Genre: Life simulator
Release dates: September 18th 2007 (USA), September 20th 2007 (EURO)
Players: 1
Developer: Maxis
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Origin: America
“Ah, van vesua! Cummuns nala” is Simlish for “Hello, how are you doing?”
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Spore creator Will Wright says the real-time life sim will release on PC in roughly six months time, that’s due spring 2008. But keep in mind ambitious games like these often get delayed, that’s why the previous best guess was Spore arriving between April 2008 and end 2009.
In an interview with Radio 5 Live, Will Wright said: “We have the game fully playable at this point and it’s in final testing. We’ve had to do a lot of testing to make sure that the game is accessible by a wide group of people. I want the people who have played The Sims to be able to play Spore - I don’t want it to be some thing just hardcore gamers play.”
If you’re not familiar with Spore, in the game you start off as a single-cell organism and then create your species at every stage of its evolution, from aquatic to its first steps on land through to tribes then a culture and then finally to explore whole galaxies.
Watch the idea behind Spore evolve in this trailer:
Quotes via CVG
Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, the world’s best selling PC gaming franchise with more than 90 million units sold, will shortly join an exclusive number of household names from TV and Film as he becomes the first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Fellowship from the video games industry at the British Academy Video Games Awards 2007. The Fellowship is the highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual for their creative work.
Until now, the much lauded Fellowship has remained an exclusive part of BAFTA’s more established pillars, TV and Film. But today’s British Academy recognizes the massive impact of video games on popular culture and their huge contribution to the whole art form of the moving image.
Hilary Bevan Jones, Chairman of the Academy said: “Will’s immense, creative body of work and his continued contribution to the industry make him a most worthy recipient of the Fellowship and being such a pioneer, we are thrilled that he will be the first person to receive this honour”.
Mr. Wright, who is widely accepted as one of the world’s leading visionaries in the field of video game design, has been passionately creating games for more than twenty years. Although he has worked on a number of hugely successful games, among them Raid On Bungling Bay (1984), SimCity (1989), SimCity 2000 (1993), SimCity 3000 (1989) and SimCity 4 (2003), he is best known for bringing to fruition one of the best-loved games franchises in history, The Sims -– a game whose inspiration sprang from a combination of the aforementioned titles.
Another ‘first’ at this year’s awards is the PC World Gamers’ Award, the only publicly-voted award of the night. This year’s Awards will be held at London’s Battersea Evolution on October 23rd. The show will be broadcast in the UK on E4 on November 4 at 11pm and repeated the following weekend on Channel 4. Congrats Will!