Previews

Author: SteveB | Posted Nov 1, 2009 | 0 comments

EA Redwood Shores , the Halloween sprit is well and truly in the air as staff arrive in full costume for the annual parade, while Sims fans are sat busying themselves, tearing into the first Expansion Pack to come out of the studio for The Sims 3. Exciting times, what with the release of Create...

Author: SteveB | Posted Oct 31, 2009 | 0 comments

Create A World will be the first Official custom content tool from EA for The Sims 3. It will enable players to create whole new worlds for their Sims to live in  just like the Riverview town released by EA.  It was created using a version of this very tool, as are the new...

Author: SteveB | Posted Feb 5, 2009 | 0 comments

In January 2008, EA held a Creators Camp event at Redwood Shores which TSR attended. During the week I was blogging, live from the event. The following article is made up of those blog posts, full of interesting information about Sims 3 as well as what was happening at EA during the week. TS3...

Author: SteveB | Posted Jul 19, 2008 | 0 comments

On Friday, July 18th 2008, Tug and I visited EA Redwood Shores (for the second time in 6 weeks), this time to have a first preview of The Sims 3! The game was not shown at E3 this week and was only represented by the official video released to coincide with the event. The information that...

Author: tug© | Posted Jun 4, 2008

On Friday May 30th I accompanied Steve to Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores for a Community Event. It was a pleasure to be back to see the venerable Maxoids and various sim webmasters. I was lucky enough to preview 2 new products for the Sims franchise. After you have a thorough peruse through...

Author: SteveB | Posted May 30, 2008

On Friday, May 30th 2008, I was at EA headquarters in not so sunny Redwood Shores, California (for my lucky 7th visit), this time to preview Sims 2 Expansion Pack number 8! You probably already know this pack as Apartment Life, but I don't think the name will have really given you even half the...

Author: SteveB | Posted Aug 3, 2007

Hopefully you already read my article from last week previewing the next Expansion Pack, Bon Voyage . Well, while at the same EA event I was lucky enough to have some play time with the other upcoming games to grace the Simming world. Please put your hands together for the Castaway...

Author: SteveB | Posted Jul 21, 2007

On Friday 20th July 2007, I was once again invited back to Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores for a Community Event to have a preview of the upcoming Sims 2 Expansion Pack, this time being 'Bon Voyage'. These events are great for our community as they allow us, the fan sites, to be first to...

Author: SteveB | Posted Jan 16, 2007

Recently I was invited back to Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores for a Community Event (I'm racking up the airmiles), during which time I was lucky enough to have a demonstration of the upcoming Sims 2 Stories game, and then to get some hands on time to play it. I'd like to share my...

Author: SteveB | Posted Dec 4, 2006 | 0 comments

On Friday 1st December 2006, I was invited back to Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores for a Community Event to have a preview of the upcoming Sims 2 Expansion Pack, 'Seasons'. These events are great for our community as they allow us, the fan sites, to be first to present you with all the...

Author: SteveB | Posted Jul 24, 2006 | 0 comments

On Friday 21st July 2006, I was invited along to Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores for a Community Event to have a preview of the upcoming Sims 2 Expansion pack, 'Pets'. The development team started off by showing us Pets in action, highlighting some of the main features of the pack. After that...

Author: SteveB | Posted Aug 23, 2005

On Friday August 12th 2005, I was invited along to EA in Redwood Shores to have some hands on time with the upcoming Sims 2 games for Consoles, Handhelds and Mobiles. I went along with a sense of wondering, given that TSR's focus is on custom content and file sharing, and that I'm a PC gamer at...

Author: SteveB | Posted Jul 1, 2005

On Thursday 30th June 2005, I was invited along to EA Europe (Chertsey, Surrey, England) for a Community Event to have a preview of the upcoming Sims 2 Expansion pack, "Nightlife". Tim LeTourneau, Senior Producer of the EP gave us a demo, while showing off some of the biggest and best features...

Author: SteveB | Posted Jan 18, 2005

On Sunday 16th January 2005 I spent some time with Sims 2 Senior Producer , Tim LeTourneau , as he gave me a preview of the upcoming expansion pack ' The Sims 2: University '. This one-on-one session also gave me an opportunity to find out some other titbits of info about the game and its...