A Dutch guy called Nique made a modern version of a classic SimCity 2000 song. It sounds very good. Brings back a couple of memories from the SC2000 era. Use the youtube video below to listen to it, or download the mp3s!
A lot of thanks to Nique for providing the mp3’s!
Nique- Simcity 2008 [3:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (66) Nique- Simcity 200(8) [1:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (51)Our friends over at Spores Illustrated pointed out a video of an interview with Will Wright. The interview runs over 15 minutes, and covers The Sims, Spore, life, the universe and everything!
EA has just released the third patch for SimCity Societies. The update can be downloaded from the official SCS site, and features:
The complete update notes are described in a pdf that’s downloadable from the official site.
Even though a page on SCS Destinations appeared at the official SCS site a week ago already, it wasn’t until today that EA released a press statement on the upcoming Expansion Pack. Erm: make that City Pack.
Today Electronic Arts Inc. unveiled SimCity™ Societies Destinations, the first city pack in the popular SimCity Societies line-up of games.
As shown earlier at the official site, the focus of the City Pack is on tourism:
The city pack add-on moves the SimCity Societies experience into exciting, new – and sometimes exotic—locales, allowing players to create the perfect vacation spot.
In the words of Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio
SimCity Societies Destinations is the perfect game to let your imagination go on vacation, while at the same time provides deeper, challenges for the player. Whether you want to forge a mini republic or build a spiritual retreat, you’ll have all the tools to make your destination admired by citizens far and wide.
The press release comes with a set of screenshots:
About two weeks ago Simphoni reported on a possible expansion pack for Simcity Societies with the possible name Destinations. This rumour has now officially been confirmed by Tilted Mill at the official SCS site. According to the SimCity Societies Destinations product page the expansion pack will feature all kinds of new functionality. It doesn’t look like something along the lines of Rush Hour for SC4, but more like The Sims on Vacation. For screenshots, check out the official SCS site.
From unspoiled nature parks with campgrounds and hiking trails to tropical beach resorts with water sports and fine dining, from humble county fairs with hay rides and midway games, to sprawling modern theme parks with all the bells and whistles, you’ll build an entire city based on attracting visitors, and keeping them entertained and satisfied.
Create amazing destinations — Turn your romantic city into a tropical beach resort, your authoritarian city into a banana republic, or your meditative city into a spiritual getaway for the rich and famous. Create attractions that are high class or low brow or bizarre.
More than 100 new buildings with new abilities, from 5 star beach resorts to UFO crash sites.
More than 35 new special Sims with new behaviors - traveling business men, religious pilgrims, political devotees, cult members, adventures and more.
New tourism and tourist functionality - Make your city attractive, working to bring more visitors who bring in more cash to our city’s coffers.
Expanded transit functionality, including air and water travel.
The Australia based British comedian “Yahtzee” reviewed Simcity:Societies in his weekly column in the escapist. He uses some strong words, so if you are easily offended, be careful.
New reviews by Zero Punctuation appear every Wednesday on the Escapistmagazine.com
Due to people paying a lot of attention, a pre-ordering page was discovered for a SimCity Societies expansion pack that will apparently be titled “SimCity Societies Destinations”. According to that pre-ordering page the price will be GBP 19.99 and its release is scheduled for the 23rd of May 2008. No confirmation yet as to whether this is real, or what will be in the expansion pack yet.
Update: screenshot of the ordering page in question in case it mysteriously disappears:
1Up reports that a new SimCity Societies patch is being worked on by Tilted Mill and will be made available in the coming weeks. This will be the third patch for SimCity Societies. According to 1Up the new update will feature:
Apparently coming off the release of SimCity for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), Don Hopkins’ port of SimCity for Unix has been released as free, open-source software. To avoid copyright issues with EA, the game has been renamed “Micropolis“.
For those of you who are into that type of thing, the Micropolis OLPC activity source includes the original(ish) C source of the game. Bil Simser says there’s some “pretty craptastic code”, but you also have to consider the time when it was written: everything had to fit into 640 KB of memory (probably less than .01% of what your computer has today!) and it had to be as fast as possible.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t run on Windows (yet), but the graphics are completely separated from the simulation (something that makes me happy as a software engineer), so it should be only a matter of time (in my estimation) before you can find Windows Micropolis, or Micropolis in lots of other interesting places. (via Slashdot)
Just in time for the holidays, the SimCity Societies team has released a new patch for the game. This second patch includes the new strategic modes SIMphoni reported on earlier this week, along with several other fixes.
A complete list of updates follows below the cut.
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