Blog Updates

So, I know I haven't been updating my blog very regularly, and I wanna apologize for that. I took a break from building because of heating issues I was having with my computer, which would cause the game to freeze fairly often, which was making it nearly impossible to get anything built. I finally got around to installing some case fans in my computer and I booted up the game last night and played for a couple hours without much issue at all, so hopefully the problem is fixed for good now.

About this blog, I feel I need to revamp it a little. Originally it was going to be centered around different custom content I could find fitting into themes, but to be perfectly honest, I've grown bored of the tedium of updating the blog with these things. I'd much rather focus on building and possibly original custom content, if I can ever learn to make it :P  So I'm doing away with themes, and I'm also doing away with the "cool items". I wanna make this site more about original content, info about new EP's, funny screenshots, and so forth.

I will be getting rid of the Themes category on the right, but the posts can still be found through the search box or by just just browsing back to older posts.

So! I will be going back to building ASAP, and hopefully there'll be some new downloads soon :)

Cool Item of the Week

I've been so caught up with the excitement of the upcoming Generations EP, I've been neglecting the regular stuff for my blog. I think I forgot to post a cool item last week, oops!

This week's cool item is a collection of wonderful masquerade clothes and masks from Meronin at TheSimsResource:

The Daylight Glare Dress
Tutu
The Crow Mask
Daylight Glare Mask
Nightshadow Mask

All items are free to download, but you do need to register. Many thanks to Meronin for this absolutely lovely collection! :)

Generations - Official Trailer & Announcement!

Well, today we actually got an official trailer from EA, as well as quite a bit of info. Below is the new trailer:



There is an article at Gamespot, a new interview from CVG, and a new interview at GamePlanet

Some of the features included are:

Imaginary friends (quite likely the new "occult" creature)
Pranks
Lots of new playground equipment (spring animals, treehouse, hopscotch, sandbox, see-saw)
Useable strollers (Sims can push their toddlers around in them)
New Parties (Teen parties, bachelor/bachelorette parties with cake dancers, improved weddings, prom, graduation)
Costumes for kids with accompanying actions (ie the Godzilla type costume lets Sim kids smash blocks like they're city buildings)
Midlife Crises for adults (still not a whole lot about this)
Home Movies with new video camera object (possibly a new skill with this too, unconfirmed)
Gift Giving and Flower Giving
Memories
Scrapbooks
Teens can be grounded for misbehaving
Elders can now have canes
Improved Rumor/Gossip (sounds like you can even take incriminating pics and blackmail other Sims)
Dance Class
More Romantic Interactions (sitting on the ground gazing at the stars makes a comeback; looks like chemistry/attraction might be returning too, but it's unconfirmed; and something called "Romantic Reputations")
Daycare Profession

So yeah, looks like a pretty good pack as far as filling in some of the holes between Sims 2 and Sims 3. I'm hoping there's even more interactions and more family stuff, but I'm pretty pleased so far. Just hoping there's more toddler stuff added :)

The pack is slated to be released in June 2011.

The Sims 3 Generations - A Little Info

SimsPrograms has released a bit more information regarding the next expansion pack "Generations": Click Here

That's the Swedish cover art. A few notable things mentioned are:

The return of Memories (hopefully vastly improved over Sims 2), new parties, more drama with an improved gossip/rumor system, getting in trouble for bad grades, chemistry sets, home movies, treehouses, pranks, and the ability to share major Sim moments on your Facebook page or Sims My Page.

Also a few new screenies from SimsSlovenija:

Chemistry Set

Costumes and "Make Believe" for kids

Improved weddings!!

Pranks (also the possible return of private schools with uniforms???)

 
Definitely intrigued by this EP, but hoping there'll be much more to come. It's sounding a tad bare at the moment to me, but the concept sounds so promising I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more improvements as far as family interactions go.