Controlling &#39;The Sims&#39;
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Instead of genre staples such as lobbing grenades or casting spells, the game asked players to get excited about tasks such as personal hygiene and interior design.
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November 22, 2004 - It was, of course, inevitable: given the success (both in excellence of design and pure sales) of The Sims 2, not to mention that it&#39;s the sequel to the biggest-selling PC game ever, Electronic Arts was going to give us expansions.
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Rogue copying software lets users clone anything or anyone they want in the virtual world. By letting its community respond, Linden Labs sets the stage for a bold experiment in alternatives to U.S.-style copyright. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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The wait for millions of Sims fans is over. Electronic Arts announced that The Sims 2, has shipped to retailers under the EA GAMES brand and is now available on store shelves.
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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Typically, I discuss video games in this column, but being a computer engineering major, I figure it&#39;s my responsibility to keep everyone up to date on the latest updates and information regarding computers and software.
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Is it possible to have a sane schedule and still be a mom working in the video game industry? In Sex Drive Daily.
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The Sims 2 adds DNA into the mix and much more realistic 3D graphics, which gives the game an eerie feeling of reality.
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In previous issues, I  kept the user experience somewhat spartan which allowed the application to be modified with a mimimum of effort. This time we add points, ellipses, bezier curves and look at a new application class called Control, which allows users to tell the Doodle application what shape they want to draw next. By Guyon Roche. 0404
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In my most recent Times column, I reviewed macro software that automates common tasks on your Mac or PC. I opened the article with a reference to a 1986 M.I.T. study, which concluded that people are less productive with computers, not more. And as a joke, I concluded the story with this: âThe bottom line: [...].
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Ingenious hacks abound for the game console's input device. Plus: The
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The popular skinning feature in Nullsoft&#39;s WinAmp media player has left the door wide open for malicious attackers to hijack PCs.
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If kitchen appliances and other household objects are exhibiting strange behavior in your virtual home, you may have unknowingly picked up hacked code from the official Sims 2 website. What's more, you may have spread it.
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By Newsday  If you've got an over-the-ai
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Game makers need to spend time to make sure that music adds to the playing experience.
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Electronic Arts on Friday began shipping the long-awaited sequel to its hit PC game &quot;The Sims.&quot;. The new version, &quot;The Sims 2,&quot; builds on the theme of letting people play out simulated life stories of its characters