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Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 6:47 pm. 3 comments
Electronic Arts has been known for its struggle on garnering trust to its gamers. Economically EA’s potential for profit is huge with their Sports line, Maxis, Boxing, Action, and Mobile gaming department. They continuously flaunt their in-game advertisements and its economic success.
Still this all takes a toll on a consumers by the recent drop in stock shares and quarterly earnings reports. The Sims 3 has many potential spots to solidify game play and do well with gamers. But we worry if EA’s marketing strategy will get the best of it.
A New Gaming Approach
The Sims 3 has an ambitious goal ahead of it. One of the major changes is that it now focuses on ONE household. Your person is placed into a world where everyone’s lives evolves with or without you. It sort of follows the lines of a MMORPG. Everyone existing in the game has their own schedule, love life, and personality. This doesn’t seem to worry fans too much since this concept was used during the Life Stories product line.
The Art Style
The most critical component for potential consumers at this stage is the graphics. The graphics look marginally better than they appeared in The Sims 2. A more realistic approach was expected, unfortunately the only areas so far that seems to be visually improved are the outdoors.
This screenshot depicts of a more detailed and realistic look of how a neighborhood is like. Now that the world is seamless, the gameplay allows you to leave your house and walk to another in real time. You will be able to move around the world with as much freedom as the console games. Hopefully as you move around, there should not be anymore loading splash screens that break up the action, but I do expect a loading screen before you enter another building.
Interior design still has that barren Sims 1-like look, every object is placed on a grid. The only new feature with object placement is diagonal rotation. This is not enough to make this game stand out from its predecessor.
This is the only screenshot so far has the most radiant lighting effect. The sun shines through the windows and the couch gives off its glossy glow, if only every screenshot presented this rise in quality…
User Feedback
Here are some various user comments from different message boards:
What I was most looking forward to in Sims 3 was a major overhaul in the department–a more realistic looking game–after all, it is a life simulation, but apparently that’s not going to happen. This looks like more of same to me, with incremental improvements.
Actually I looked at some of the graphics and they are dramatically improved hardware wise. The problem is that everything is unquestionably UGLY
Lindsay Pearson Interview Response:
However the screenshots give a somewhat distorted image, because when you see the Sims 3 live at work, you immediately notice the high detail in the world and its characters.
We shall see how this will turn out, there isn’t much uproar for this game as Simcity Societies. So far EA, your on a positive note here.
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 1:55 am. 0 comments
Myspace has just launched a mobile wap version of their site which you can use at http://mobile.myspace.com from your cellphone. You can look up new friend requests, send messages, and read their profile.
This works on any cellphone carrier in the U.S as long as you have a mobile web browser also known as WAP. For now, photos are not showing up for some reason, maybe its a bit too early?
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago at 11:47 pm. 0 comments
So Yahoo updated their Mobile News portal two weeks ago and quite frankly, it sucks. The old news portal used to have a wealth of information and multiple sub categories putting all your news together. Now they have updated it forcing you to login and add your own RSS Feeds. This would be great, but most RSS feeds don’t display the whole content, forcing you to "click here for more". Sadly you can’t even click within the RSS feed, making it practically useless.
Old Yahoo Mobile News Portal
–Go to URL:
http://wap.oa.yahoo.com/raw?dp=rssnews
Now your done and you can enjoy the whole news from your cell phone!
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:58 pm. 8 comments
Verizon users read up! We finally have a site that allows us the freedom to use AIM, MSN, Gtalk, and Skype. It works perfectly on LGVX8300, just don’t try to edit your groups or you’ll get that insufficient memory crap.
How to Get AIM on your Cellphone for Free
Nimbuzz uses the WAP protocol so no text messages are needed and there is no need to download any applications. Now AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile users don’t really need to worry about this because they have applications already but if your still curious, here’s a list of how to access AIM, MSN, etc on your cellphone depending on your carrier.
Verizon Users
Verizon users need to have both America’s Choice Basic + VCast Vpack. If you have America’s Choice Select, or America’s Choice Premium, there is no need to read on. Select and Premium plans have unlimited Text Messages and you can use AIM from Get It NoW! for Free.
1. Open Verizon Wireless Mobile Web
2. Press Menu
3. Press Go to URL
4. Type Url: web.nimbuzz.com
5. Register and Login
6. Click Settings
7. Click Communities
8. Choose your Community and enter Login Information!
T-Mobile Users
T-mobile Users, can either use AIM from their cellphone’s desktop or use T-Mobile branded AIM through T-zones. If you have unlimited text messages you do not need to use Tzones Aim as it is much slower and painful to use. If you have unlimited T-Zones you can also MSN Method
For AIM
1. Press Tzones
2. Type AIM in Search Box
3. Press AIM and Sign In!
For MSN
1. Go to http://www.nimbuzz.com/en/getstarted/mobile/
2. Enter your Cellphone
3. Send Link to Download Java App
AT&T iPhone Users
Its odd how iPhone users get the least crippled software on their phones. iPhone users have a variety of choices to use but the most popular one right now is TinyBuddy, it works only for iPhone.
1. Click Safari
2. Type URL: http://x.aim.com/ty/
3. Sign in!
The Alternatives
Ebuddy and E-Messenger are the only major alternatives for Wap aim, but these do not seem to work on Verizon.
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 7:00 pm. 4 comments
I’ll finally be purchasing a new phone. I pretty much want to step out of T-Mobile a bit and discover some of the things I’ve been missing for years. Here’s a short analysis of how a Techy decides on his phone.
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Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 6:17 pm. 1 comment
For about 2 months, Opera Mini worked fine with no connection problems whatsoever. Now it seems 2 days ago after a OTA message, everything went all wonky. During my tests, I can connect with Opera Mini, however a "Connection Closed by Remote Server" error message pops up making the app useless. Others were unable to connect at all receiving a "failed connection test." Is this some evil plan to charge extra for data over java applets, or some bug in the system? Only time will tell.
Update — Feb 22, 2007
A blog post gives a little rundown on T-mobile US and how they block applications on their phones. Oddly enough, the UK service does not block Java Applets from accessing the internet. T-mobile blocks the Web Sessions area from all Motorola phones thus blocking anyone from editing them unless you have PKtools and a data cable. Some of her comments are critical against her but the main point is, if the T Mobile UK’s "t-zones" allows access to Opera Mini, then so should the US service. Why are we getting cut out of a deal we pay for? Well I smell another useless online petition.
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 7:56 pm. 0 comments
You may not have a Nintendo DS or a Playstation Portable, but that doesn’t mean you are forced to play those cruddy games on your cell. All you need is a WAP browser, a data plan, and your set to go. Make sure to read the extra notes at the bottom of the post.
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Posted 1 year, 5 months ago at 8:30 pm. 1 comment
AOL, Google, and Windows Live, have been the biggest players in providing websites for your cell. In the world of WAP, there is limited amount of space and bandwith. Its essential to create sites that are easy to use with quick load times. We’ll divulge into each one of these as well as others suggested by you.
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Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 11:21 pm. 4 comments
Finally, for years T-mobile has blocked Java Midlet Applications from accessing the internet. Because of this, forums would get flooded with "WHY MY TMOB RAZR WUNT WORK WIT OPERA HALP!!!" The only way to fix this is to modify your phone. You would have to shell out some cash just to buy a data cable to connect to your PC. Then you’d have to unlock the phone and change some settings to allow access. Well from December 18 this is no more. No more waiting for the slow internal WAP browser to scroll down one page of text. Now you are able to access any of your favorite Java Apps with no data connection erros. While testing the different applications, I have found that Opera Mini and Gmail seems to work the best. Google Maps on the otherhand is pretty slow and your actually better off using the WAP version. While your having fun with your new apps, you can probably disregard the upcoming post about a review of the popular WAP sites.
