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'The Sims' Sign Up With Sony
News "The Sims" want to move in to your living room. The Sims" debuted in February 2000 and has spawned a number of expansion packs, including "The Sims House Party", "The Sims Hot Date" and "The Sims Vacation".
[May 21, 2002, 9:01]
Electronic Arts Runs The Sims Online Faster And More Reliably, Saves $3.4 Million
White Papers In 2002, EA launched The Sims Online, an online version of its popular PC game, The Sims. It also needed to scale The Sims Online cost-effectively as the player community grew into the millions. EA) is the world's largest independent developer and...
[September 8, 2005, 0:00]
Electronic Arts Runs The Sims Online Game Faster And More Reliably, Saves $3.4 Million With Oracle Real Application Clusters On Linux
White Papers EA needed to build a solid computing infrastructure for The Sims Online - one capable of providing fast, uninterrupted service around the clock for hundreds of thousands of online gamers. The result was EA could manage the Sims Online with a...
[April 4, 2008, 0:00]
Instant Messaging Goes 3D
News Hoping to capitalise on the rising popularity of online virtual worlds such as EverQuest and Sims Online, a California start-up has created 3D instant messaging software complete with playful dogs, drivable cars and personalised avatars that show...
[January 8, 2003, 9:59]
Office Surfers Face Wipeout
News Companies that stand to lose from corporate filtering include game sites like "The Sims", commerce hot spots like eBay, online dating sites like MatchMaker.com, and news and entertainment outlets focused on delivering in rich media formats such as...
[January 24, 2003, 15:07]
Game Firms Look To The Wiki Ethos
News Speaking at The Entertainment Gathering in Los Angeles, Sims creator Will Wright and Microsoft Xbox team head J Allard both cast a spotlight on the growing role that game players will have in creating content for the biggest games.
[February 6, 2006, 12:40]
Sony's Online 'Star Wars' Game Debuts Without Hype
News Billy Pidgeon, an analyst for research firm Zelos Group, said Sony appears to have learned from competitors, particularly game giant Electronic Arts, which launched "The Sims Online" last year. That game, a multiplayer online version of the smash...
[June 27, 2003, 13:53]
Microsoft Takes Swipe At Linux Vendors' Legal Story
News Bryan Sims, the vice-president of business development at Red Hat, told ZDNet UK that it does not offer legal expenses to customers, but claimed the threat of legal action was not the main concern of its customers.
[November 5, 2004, 13:28]
GDC: Game Makers Grapple With Online Push
News Such games account for the few financial success stories to emerge so far from online gaming, and game publishers hope to push the concept to a much broader audience with upcoming titles based on franchises such as "Star Wars" and "The Sims".
[March 25, 2002, 11:07]
ICANN Secures Temporary Funds
News Sims declined to name the companies making loans to ICANN or the total amount of additional funds ICANN has secured. Whatever new money ICANN has received, the group still remains in the red, Sims acknowledged.
[August 20, 1999, 8:56]
Nvidia Courts Gamers With High-end Chip
News Steve Sims, senior product manager for Nvidia, said the 5900 uses a cooling system based on Nvidia's workstation products, which improves airflow and reduces fan-related noise significantly. Besides a faster clock speed and more memory, the 5900...
[May 12, 2003, 8:33]
Nvidia Splits PC Market With New Chips
News We believe anti-aliasing is the next place people are going to be looking for big improvements in graphics, where designers are going to go to get more visual acuity," Sims said. Steve Sims, senior product manager for Nvidia, said the dual-release...
[February 6, 2002, 12:16]
Consoles Put The Squeeze On PC Games
News What's going on with The Sims is that PC customers are buying fewer games and playing them more deeply. And it's nearly impossible to imagine gamers immersing themselves in the virtual worlds created through the PC-based smash The Sims via a...
[March 23, 2001, 9:48]
Free Speech Online Finding Limits
News Charles Sims, a partner with Proskauer Rose who represents the Motion Picture Association of America in its case against Corley, dismissed fears of free-speech restrictions, calling them a "false bill of goods.
[November 30, 2001, 12:23]
ICANN On The Verge Of Financial Collapse
News In a 15 June email, Joe Sims, ICANN's attorney, says that he and Esther Dyson, ICANN's interim chairman, met privately with Thomas Kalil, the senior director for science and technology issues on the White House's National Economic Council, to...
[August 19, 1999, 16:16]
The 3 'G's Of Mobile Data
Talkback Due to the hassle involved with contracts, it's unlikely that laptop vendors will do deals with mobile operators for supplying their sims with the laptop - and pay as you go data services are so marginal as to be pointless in thier inception.
[December 2, 2004, 11:37]
Will Pocket PC Flourish Or Flounder?
News Joe Sims, an antitrust attorney at Jones Day Reavis~Pogue, believes that the Department of Justice was purposefully ambiguous because Pocket PC is not dominating its market segment. Sims said that the DoJ wants to put the onus on Microsoft to help...
[June 9, 2000, 13:54]
Mobile Phones: The Next Game Boy?
News Will they spend money on a real-time strategy game, or Tomb Raider, or Civilisation, or The Sims? Gaming on mobile phones will not take off until the experience is on par with a 3D console, according to chip designer ARM Holdings, but this goal is...
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
Microsoft On Trial: MS Gets Technical...
News If Microsoft's first witness -- Richard Schmalensee, acting dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management -- fails to offset the testimony of the government's star economist, MIT's Franklin Fisher, any type of...
[January 11, 1999, 16:25]
Digital Rights Case Could Set Crucial Precedent
News Every newspaper in the country, and magazine as well, will immediately do whatever they can to pull off freelance articles," Sims said, adding that many already have taken down pieces while waiting for the case's outcome.
[March 28, 2001, 9:03]
