Day follows night, tick follows tock and contrived blubbing follows an Oscar win. Sometimes life can be gloriously predictable, just like that last 'joke'.
But no one could have possibly predicted that the PC title, The Sims 2 would be set for another expansion pack, unless you remember Hot Date, House Party, Livin' Large, Makin' Magic...
With The Sims 2 University only just released in the US and still yet to hit the shelves over here, some people might think that it is a little early to announce a follow-up, but EA have actually gone one better - confirmation of The Sims 2's new expansion pack, Nightlife, actually arrives inside the box for the freshly unwrapped University.
At the moment any details of the game are as vague as getting directions from Boris Johnson, but according to the box blurb your little computer people will be able to spend their evenings in clubs or enjoying a fine romantic meal.
While the US version of the game is set to be unleashed in the autumn, at the moment there is no UK date for The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack.
new GTA News
While most of the world are still ploughing their way through the trail of the dead in San Andreas, GTA's developers Rockstar are already planning their next headlong plunge into the immoral world of mouthy mobsters.
Their latest move has been to send a group of lawyers out to sign up a variety of potential game names, while at the same time lazily reaching out a paw to give the rumour mill a quick spin. And so we have uncovered five potential titles for their next GTA game, with each one having been trademarked for use in the US. And they are:
GTA 5
GTA 6
Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo
Grand Theft Auto: Bogota
Grand Theft Auto: Sin City So which is it to be? Is Tommy or CJ going to clock up the Air Miles mixing with drug mules and dealers in Colombia or double cross the Yakuza in Japan? Or is our hero about to take a bloody stroll down the messy streets of memory lane in Sin City?
Or perhaps you think that these names are a decoy, a distraction, just as they were when Rockstar registered exactly the same list of names before San Andreas was released?
personally i would have liked to see grand theft auto:the casino years centred around vegas at the height of the mobs influence...just think the film "casino" in game form...
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and how about a grand theft autoundee...seeing as my home town is where the games were initially made before moving to edinburgh...hence in the original GTA on the playstation and PC there was an area called ardler...i grew up there...you also see the "dundee:we have a boat that belonged to a loser" billboard near the airport in vice city...as well as the guy from love fist wearing a Dundee FC away strip