Aspyr just added their The Sims 2 Open for Business page, giving further details for Mac users on the upcoming expansion pack including details on the system requirements. It seems that Open for Business should run fine on the new Mactel systems, with Intel chipsets listed next to the G4/G5 processor requirements (we assume the same universal binary patch for The Sims 2 Vanilla applies to Open for Business). No word yet on any add on pack ports to Mac.

Spore buzz continues to cross out of the realms of game news sites to large publications, the latest Business Week piece, "Spore Lives Up to the Hype" further demonstrating this. While the article doesn't add much to what we already know about Spore, it seems that a compressed creature is now down to 3kb. We were also interested about the line referring to the "cheesy 70's music," although it is likely that we will just have to wait for the game to arrive to judge that.

The next add on pack for The Sims 2, "Glamour Life Stuff" was announced just a few days ago. The add on pack features new clothes and 60 new items including new home decor. You can read all of the details and check out a few pics at TheSims2.com. No official word yet on whether or not add-on packs Family Fun and Glamour Life will be heading to Mac. Considering that Family Fun has been successful for the PC version of The Sims 2, our guess is that they will announce it after the arrival of the Mac version of Open for Business.

The Mac version of The Sims 2 Open for Business has just gone into its Alpha stage, as reported by the Mac news site, MacMinute. With a scheduled release date sometime in September of this year, the expansion pack appears to be on track. No news yet on the assumed expansion pack for The Sims 2 PC relating to pets.