EPISODE 071 - Tamblanana! Tuuk.

This week's non-movie topic:
"In the Spring of 2000, Electronic Arts released a game, created by Maxis, that would change the lives of gamers everywhere. Not the uber-gamers, of course, but more casual gamers. That game was The Sims, a life simulator that put you in control of little pixellated characters on the screen. In the fall of 2004, Electronic Arts released the sequel to this game that brought a brand new dimension to the pixellated characters that we loved. As of June 2, 2009, a third incarnation of this game will be released. But since it's not out yet, we're going to revisit a topic that we had way back in flick-a-brac episode 004: The Sims 2."

[Please note: At the time of recording, Electronic Arts had not yet announced the releasing delay of Sims 3 and is stated as being February 16.]

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• In Theaters the week of January 30.
• In Theaters the week of February 6.
• Mini-review of Inkheart.
• Discussion of The Sims 2, including the following links:
  • The Sims 2 Official Site
  • The Sims 3 Official Site
  • Prison Hack
  • Reclaim Your Game
  • SecuROM's FAQ page
  • SecuROM Removal Tool
• Promo: Piggymoto: All-Star Boar Band, a podcast novel by Nicholas McRae
• Super massive thanks to my special guest co-hosts for the episode: Rachel,SimChris, and Samantha
• Thanks to Terri for participating in the voice chat!
• Thanks also to Whispers, Shakes, EGgold, Infinity Nevermore, purplestarz2006, Wendiigo, and Dev for playing with us in the text chat.
• Music used in this episode:
  • Bumper music composed by StudioMig
    • Intro and Outro: Robot
    • New in Theaters: The Sword of Fire
    • Movie Review: Sherlock
    • Main Event: Transformers
  • (With appreciation to the Podsafe Music Network)
    

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