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2010.02.28     Our Site Update : High-End Loft on Sims 3 Catalog     今天是二月的最後一天，也是農曆新年的最後一天~元宵節。過了今天就過完新年假期，要收心好好工作讀書~這週我們更新以新物件包建成的房屋--頂級閣樓，希望大家喜歡^^     2010.02.21     SimsPlanet2 : Sims 10th Anniversary Presskit     荷蘭人真的很熱愛模擬市民，荷蘭網站SimsPlanet2與當地的EA合作了一張模擬市民10週年的紀念光碟，收錄了很多玩家的作品影片等等，另外還包含了一個可愛的滑鼠墊(我想要這個!)。真希望台灣EA也來出一張~     2010.02.20     Our Site Update : Sunset Chapel on Sims 3 Catalog     本週更新伊娃妮的最新公共區作品：日落禮拜堂，歡迎參觀^^   The Sims 3 Fatboy chair.You’ll be able to order them starting March 1st from Walmart.com and CNNStores.com     模擬市民3之懶骨頭座椅----提供真人使用。有朋友說這個看起來像肥料袋~well，想要的朋友可以從3月1號以後上Walmart.com或CNNStores.com訂購。不過我想應該是沒有送到海外的服務吧:P   (from Simprograms )   2010.02.19     Two fake covers made by sins fan :The Sims 3 Hobbies & Professions and The Sims 3 Spellbound(It's only a rumor)     這幾天國外也在休春節假期嗎?怎麼感覺大家蠻閒的XD。有粉絲製作了兩組模擬市民3資料片的封面(注意這只是粉絲作的)。有之前提過的嗜好與職業(這張資料片似乎是真的)還有很多粉絲想要的魔法(目前已被證實是謠言一場)。大家就邊嗑瓜子邊看看吧!             (from Simprograms)   Tow free hats on Sims 3 Store     愚人節到了嗎?模擬市民3線上商店提供了男女各一的小丑帽，是免費物件，大家加減下吧!         2010.02.17     New Free Clothes on The Sims 3 Store     新年快樂!我們回來了。虎年的第一篇更新我們介紹官網上的免費女裝一件，讓模擬市民也過新年穿新衣吧!     *下載本件服裝前請注意你的遊戲是否更新到最新版本；否則不能安裝喔!     2010.02.12     Happy Year of Tiger!     February 14, 2010, to most people around the world, it's Valentine's Day. But for us in Taiwan, it's Lunar New Year, the Year of Tiger. We will be taking a few days very needed time off. Here at Evanell Sims Houses, we wish you an aggressive and prosperous Year of Tiger.     2月14日對世界很多國家的人來說是情人節，在台灣是農曆新年。我們將會休息幾天以便養精蓄銳。 在這裡先預祝大家在虎年虎虎生風、新年快樂^^     2010.02.11     TS3: High-End Loft / Design & High-Tech Stuff OST - Very Busy People (Electronica)     模擬市民3 : 頂級奢華組合的原聲帶。還沒入手的朋友可以試聽看看~       The Sims 3 update 1.10/2.5/3.1     又是遊戲更新。最近都在慶祝模擬市民的10周年生日，看到三代這麼的"不長進"，對於模擬市民是否會有下一個十年感到相當的...憂心。     Fixes issues with the Input Method Editor for players on the Japanese SKU. Also addresses some functionality errors in the launcher. Fixes a bug that prevents collectible Beetles from showing up in game. Fixes a bug that causes Sims to teleport off of some of the new beds in SP01. Fixes crashes and stalls when multiple patches are being installed.     2010.02.06     Our Site Update : Japanese Contemporary on Sims3 Catalog     最近都是模擬市民十週年慶祝活動的新聞，看得人眼花撩亂。也別忘記來參觀伊娃妮的新作品：和風雅居喔!           2010.02.05     Celebrating 10 Years Of The Sims !     EA官方的模擬市民系列10周年慶祝活動---簡單的講就是希望大家拿出實際行動(錢)來支持啦!         (謝謝JD老大的訊息提供)   The Sims 10th Anniversary random giveaway     各位想拿好康的朋友們請要密切注意這個消息!EA將在今天(2/5，不過美國時間會比台灣晚一天~)舉辦模擬市民10周年大放送活動，請大家在今天密切注意模二官方論壇及推特，說不定你就是那個幸運得主喔!     Hey Simmers, As you know The Sims is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! To celebrate, we thought we’d treat you to a random giveaway, woo! We’ll be randomly picking Simmers who will receive all kinds of The Sims goodies (some might show a bit of use, however – i.e. pin holes, etc)! Join us tomorrow, Friday from 9am – 5pm PST in a moderated thread here or our TS2 Twitter page: http://twitter.com/TheSims2 We’ll see you there. -MaxisHydra   Two New Sets on the Sims3 Store     終於--我之前一直在煩惱要蓋些什麼公共區--現在EA提供了答案：美式快餐店。今天模擬市民3線上商店更新了兩組物件，包含美式快餐店物件+人物服裝組(眼尖的玩家會發現EA再次很可惡的拿二代的物件來賣錢)和另一組門窗物件組合。目前正在特價中喔!       Two New Screen shots of The Sims3 : High-End Loft     兩張新的模擬市民3 : 頂級奢華組合遊戲截圖                   2010.02.04     EA’S groundbreaking franchise ‘The Sims’ turns 10 years old!     10週年生日快樂!模擬市民!大家都知道模擬市民系列是史上最暢銷的遊戲，那你知道它締造了哪些驚人的紀錄嗎?下面這篇文章詳述了許多模擬市民無人能敵的驕傲，包括銷售量超越鐵達尼與阿凡達、駭客任務等電影，官網的每月人數達六百萬次，在iphone等下載類遊戲之付費次次最高等等。這些內容在去年12月臺灣舉辦的模擬市民聖誕party中產品經理claire有先"偷跑"為到場的玩家做過簡報。沒去的朋友們就自己看看下面的介紹吧!         World’s Most Popular Virtual Neighborhood Celebrates A Decade of Simulation, Innovation and Reinvention REDWOOD CITY, Calif., February 4, 2010 – The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announces the celebration of the ten year anniversary of The Sims™, the groundbreaking game that allowed players to create and live a virtual, simulated life on a computer. Since the original The Sims debut on February 4, 2000, the unstoppable, award-winning franchise has produced three core games – The Sims, The Sims 2, and The Sims 3 – supported by dozens of expansion and stuff packs with lifetime unit sales eclipsing 125 million worldwide. As the best-selling PC game* in nearly every major video game market worldwide, The Sims has continuously reset the bar over the past decade delivering new content, gameplay elements, platform support, and partnerships that resonate with its global fan base in meaningful ways and take the play experience to new levels of fun and entertainment. “The success of The Sims is something gamers and the gaming business as a whole can be proud of. With its charming and quirky style, lovely emergent game mechanics and user created creativity that delights every day, The Sims is a game that can be enjoyed by everybody and reflects what you put into it,” explained Rod Humble, Head of the EA Play label. “The future of The Sims is going to be a lot of fun; it is rare for an entertainment franchise to be gaining momentum a decade after release, so this is a particularly pleasant moment for everyone who has worked on the games.” “No other game in the history of electronic entertainment has ever had the broad, nearly universal appeal of The Sims franchise,” says Logan Decker, Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer magazine. “Everybody plays it: hardcore gamers, young women, celebrities, conservatives, professors, soldiers, grandmothers, even people who say they don’t like computer games. And the game—or, rather, the experience—has thrived throughout 10 years of sequels and countless expansion packs because EA has kept the environment fresh and infinitely customizable while never getting in the way of the game’s primary focus—the player’s imagination, and the natural inclination of all human beings to create meaningful stories.” Just how popular is The Sims? The franchise has generated more than $2.5B of revenue putting it in the same class as blockbuster films Avatar, Titanic, and The Matrix Trilogy. The Sims, available in 60 countries and 22 languages, remains a worldwide cultural touchstone for its enormous and growing fan base by continuing to evolve its content and remain current. Since its June 2009 launch, The Sims 3 has sold more than 4.5 million units worldwide to date and holds the #1 best-selling PC title for 2009 in North America and Europe*. The Sims 3, like its predecessors, allows players to create, download and share player content on its online exchange fueling nearly 110 million downloads for The Sims 3 alone in a matter of months. The Sims 3 community site alone, www.thesims3.com, welcomes up to six million unique visitors monthly, handles 300 content downloads every minute and more than 1.8 million uploads have been made to date, including 20 movies each hour. The Sims 3 App for iPhone and iPod touch became the top selling game on the App Store for 2009 and reached the #1 position in the top paid Apps in nearly 40 countries worldwide in the same year.** What does it feel like to host 6 million visitors each month? Invite the entire city of San Francisco to drop by your house and you’ll get the gist. Social networking sites play a significant role in the ongoing popularity of The Sims with pages on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube, amassing a following of a million friends to date worldwide. That’s enough people to fill the world’s largest stadium, North Korea’s Rungrado May Day Stadium, more than four times. The Sims 3 YouTube Channel is the second most subscribed to sponsored channel of all time with nearly 55,000 subscribers and over 26 million video views. Through social networks, The Sims development team shares the latest news and content, hosts contests and showcases player creations, and provides answers to game-related questions. Sims are the trendiest virtual people on the block. In 2008, nearly 1,000 H&M stores worldwide featured a garment designed by a player of The Sims for purchase, and real-world IKEA home furnishings could be used to decorate living spaces and more with the releases of The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff and The Sims 2 IKEA® Home Stuff packs. The Sims has continued to hold magnetic appeal because it is relevant, quirky, edgy, and fun; it’s a microcosm of society. The games give players the ability to create and control another life for themselves complete with relationships, children, homes, travel, business and pure entertainment. If the games were buried in a time capsule, when unearthed in 100 years, The Sims would give future generations an instant understanding of how people lived between 2000-2010. For example, music would come alive from blockbuster recording artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry, Natasha Bedingfield and Depeche Mode, all of whom have recorded songs for various The Sims games in Simlish, the official language of the Sims. The popular franchise has also kept pace with societal trends such as “going green” with The Sims 3 allowing players to live off the land, grow their own food and or use pedal power or a Toyota Prius to travel, all in an effort to reduce their personal carbon Sim footprints. For more information about The Sims, visit http://thesims.ea.com/. Press materials and assets can be found at http://info.ea.com/product.asp?s=2715. According to NPD data, Chart-track UK, Gfk France, Gfk Spain, Gfk-MCC Germany and EA internal estimate ** iTunes 2009 Rewind   Free Set on Sims 3 Store : Let there be sims     第三組模擬市民十週年慶祝物件今天推出。哇!那會不會連續十天都有免費物件組可以下載呢?好期待喔!       The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff Pack Review - Lazy Game Reviews     一篇很幽默有趣詳細又中肯的模擬市民三:頂級奢華組合的遊戲介紹評論影片。昨天伊娃妮忙著安裝跟測試，看了影片才想到一件很生氣的事 : 這個物件包在美國的定價約20美元，約台幣630元，但是他有附送價值10美元的模擬商店點數。臺灣的定價是490元，可是卻沒有附送任何的贈品或點數，感覺好糟!         2010.02.03     Another Free Set on the Sims3 Store     模擬市民10周年慶祝活動持續進行中，今天模擬市民3線上商店又釋出了另一組經典物件:紅鶴燈及一幅掛畫(這個我就想不起來在哪一代模擬市民裡有看過)，大家快去下載吧!       The Sims 3 & World Adventures patch update 1.9/2.4     在模擬市民3:頂級奢華組合上市的當日，EA照例又推出了新的更新檔。雖然三代上市以來一直在搞更新檔讓人很煩，不過或許有玩家注意到，新遊戲的更新檔其實是在作遊戲與資料片的連結，也就是讓只有主程式的玩家也可以享有部分資料片/物件包的功能，並且讓使用了資料片/物件包功能蓋的房屋也可以安裝在只有主程式的遊戲裡。這是伊娃妮很讚賞模擬市民3系列的一點。希望未來3代的好是越來越多囉!     To install this update, please start your game and use the “Updates” tab in your Launcher. Game Update for: 1.9/2.4 High-End Loft Stuff – This update is required to play the digital download version of The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff. World Adventures – Users can now capture the Town Theatre subject in photography A change was made so that desks do not burn anymore. Mac only: Fixed an error with uploading screenshots from the Mac when the “.jpg” file extension is deleted. PC only: Fixed a bug where the launcher would display an error message that it could not connect to EADM on Vista and Windows 7 machines. Before installing an Update for The Sims 3, an Expansion Pack, or a Stuff Pack, it is a good idea to run through the following checklist to ensure your game continues to work smoothly. If you have any questions about the below steps, please visit the Technical Support forum on the official Sims 3 community found at this URL: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/forums/show/10.page Step 1: Disable Custom Content Custom Content is all Sims content that did not come from an official The Sims 3 Update, The Sims 3 Store, Expansion Pack, or Stuff Pack. Custom Content is created by 3rd Party Developers that are not regulated by Electronic Arts or The Sims 3 Development Team and may not work with new updates. Custom Content may cause the game to behave unexpectedly or not function entirely. To disable your custom content, undo whatever you did to install this content to get your game back into an unmodified state. If you placed it in a Sims 3 directory folder, move it to a new folder that is outside your Sims 3 file directory. Your Sims 3 file directory can be found using the paths listed below: Windows File Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Mac File Directory: User/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims/ Once you have installed the official update you may re-enable your custom content. If you experience problems, disable it again until the 3rd party developer updates their content to work with the official Update, Expansion Pack, or Stuff Pack. Step 2: Back Up your Save Files It’s always a good precaution to back up your save files before installing an Expansion Pack, Update, or Stuff Pack. To do this, copy the “.sims3” folders found in the Saves folder onto your desktop or another file directory. Your Sims 3 Saves folder can be found using the paths listed below: Windows File Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves Mac File Directory: User/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims/Saves After the Update is installed, run the game to verify your saves still function correctly. Step 3: Let the Update Complete Entirely Updates can sometimes be rather large and may take a while to download and install completely. Cancelling the update before it has completed may cause unexpected problems, so it is always best to let it finish entirely. Do not close the Launcher until you have confirmed the update is completely installed, as this will cancel the update.     2010.02.02     【模擬市民3 : 頂級奢華物件組合】數位下載版已經上架囉!     喵~早上還在跟Amy還有JD老大討論物件包到底今天買不買得到，不過已經有網友在噗浪上跟伊娃妮爆料數位版已經先上線囉!急著要玩(有這麼急嗎?)的朋友可以開始下載了。另外我剛剛打給三井問，還沒有實體版上架的消息。反正不是今天晚上就是明天囉!       Free Set on the Sims 3 Store     慶祝模擬市民系列發售10周年，EA模擬市民3線上商店推出了免費物件一組:關於貝拉與悲劇小丑的畫像兩幅。我發現最近的EA免費物件都給得很沒誠意，可能過幾天就沒有了，之後就要你買商店點數才給下載。所以大家手腳要快囉!!       System requirements for The Sims 3 High End Loft Stuff     模擬市民3的第一張物件包：頂級奢華物件組合的系統需求。跟主程式的系統需求比起來沒什麼特別的變化，只是你的硬碟又要損失很多空間啦~     MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR PC: ———————— FOR WINDOWS XP (Service Pack 2) Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+ or equivalent 1GB RAM of Memory At least 300MB of hard drive space 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 The latest version of DirectX 9.0c FOR WINDOWS VISTA (Service Pack 1) Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+ or equivalent 1.5 GB RAM of Memory At least 300MB of hard drive space 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 The latest version of DirectX 9.0c FOR COMPUTERS USING BUILT-IN GRAPHICS CHIPSETS, THE GAME REQUIRES AT LEAST Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above (GMA 3-series or higher). 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent 1.5 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista) SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS FOR PC: ———————— NVIDIA GeForce series FX 5900, FX 5950 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800 9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800 G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295 ATI Radeon™ series 9500, 9600, 9800 X300, X600, X700, X800, X850 X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950 2400, 2600, 2900 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870 Intel® Extreme Graphics GMA X3×00 series (3-Series GMA), GMA 4-Series Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts will not perform adequately. Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily. Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn’t listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all. The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista. . MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR MAC: ———————— OPERATING SYSTEM Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher PROCESSOR Intel Core Duo MEMORY (RAM) 2GB HARD DISK SPACE 400MB of space VIDEO CARD ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of video RAM or Intel Integrated GMA X3100 SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS FOR MAC: ———————— NVIDIA GeForce series 7300, 7600 8600, 8800 9400M, 9600M GT GT 120, GT 130 ATI Radeon™ series X1600, X1900 2400, 2600 3870 4850, 4870 Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) GMA X3×00 series 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.     (thanks to simprograms for sharing)