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Monday, Nov 16
Confirmed: EA Closes Pandemic Studios, Says Brand Will Live On [Disturbance In The Work Force]
Also said to be affected heavily are Spore and former-Sims studio EA Maxis, social network gaming acquisition Rupture Studios, and Mercenaries and The Saboteur creators Pandemic Studios LA. Those development studios are said to be hit with substantial layoffs, according to a source,...
Saturday, Oct 24
Kotaku Originals: Tough Love [Originals]
Windows 7: What Happened to Gaming? I Kept Playing - The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction How About A Spore Fighting Game? A Patch Of Gaming Pumpkins Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep Wakes Up To Japanese Release Date' Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Impressions: EA Vs. Capcom
Tuesday, Oct 20
How About A Spore Fighting Game? [Fighting Games]
This is where I saw the potential. I asked the Spore Hero producer if the size of my creature affected his ability to get hit in a fight. Maybe a smaller creature would have a smaller hit box and a larger one So the reality might not be coming, but Spore Hero, at least, suggest what the birth of a Spo...
Friday, Oct 16
Notebook Dump: Missing High School [Extras]
More Dragon Age, Spore Hero, SimsAnimals Africa, EA Sports Active coverage next week. And that's not counting the games EA showed me that they won't let me write about until weeks beyond that (you've heard of these games before; you just don't know about the new stuff in them, unfortunatel...
Sunday, Oct 4
Week in Games: Where Video Game Happens [New Releases]
A Boy and His Blob (Wii) A Witch's Tale (DS) Game Party 3 (Wii) Hands On! Tangrams (DS) Spore Hero (Wii, DS) Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes (DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, 360) The Biggest Loser (DS, Wii) The Sims 2 Best of Business Collection (PC) Zenses Zen Garden (DS)
Sunday, Sep 20
Kotaku's Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists [Lists]
• Gaming's Would Be Innovators [GamesRadar]Well, Pac-Man on the 2600 is a real good call, as it sent video games into the wilderness for a few years. Dragon's Lair, Shenmue, Enter the Matrix and Star Wars: Galaxies make this list of disappointments that set out to do something big and diffe...
Wednesday, Sep 16
Spore Creature Creator Goes Flat [Ea]
Have you ever wanted to smash your Spore creations flat? EA's newly-released Spore Creature Creator 2D saves you the trouble. How players use it? Well, with the ability to send an e-card of their creature to friends, I suspect that the Spore Creature Creator 2D will inspire a horde of sexua...
Monday, Aug 31
A Better Katamari? [They Said It On A Podcast]
OK. If I haven't lost you yet, then here's Ellis trying to describe the game's wonderful Milky-Way-galaxy-style level at 9:34 of the podcast: Does that make sense? Maybe you should just watch the trailer and try the demo from Hemisphere Games.
Friday, Aug 28
9 Basterds [Note]
What you missed: Universal Ratings Raises Its Head Again, ESA Responds Modern Warfare 2 Gameplay Leaked from Game Crazy Con This Time, The Video Game Announcer Won't Repeat Himself So Much Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker [Maxis]
Electronic Arts' recent attempt to "focus" Spore developer Maxis—which was a nicer way of saying some people got laid off—includes one of its more rant-ready folks, Chris Hecker, a Technology Fellow at the company. Remember him?
Saturday, Aug 22
In Moral Debate About Shadow Complex, Both Sides Have Their Say [Debates]
To Boycott Or Not? There is no sign that the debate about Card is significantly hurting Shadow Complex's sales even if the game and its developers' reputation are taking some abuse on gaming Internet forums. Shadow Complex has scored high marks from reviewers.
Wednesday, Jul 29
Madden, FIFA Coming To iPhone [IPhone]
EA have quietly, perhaps even accidentally, revealed that their two biggest sporting franchises - Madden and FIFA - will be coming to the iPhone "soon". Buried at the foot of a press release for the iPhone's "Spore Origins" is mention that both FIFA 10 and Madden 10 are "coming soon" to Appl...
Friday, Apr 10
Spore Creator Wants to Make Toys Fun Again [Well Played]
The famed digital toy maker responsible for SimCity, The Sims and Spore, is leaving video game publishing behemoth Electronic Arts to dabble in every form of entertainment from robots and toys to television shows, movies and, yes, even more video games.
Thursday, Apr 9
Preview: Spore Galactic Adventures – The Cake Is a Portal [Preview]
Oh well. Here goes… What is it? Spore Galactic adventures is an expansion pack for Spore that lets you extend the space exploration segment to actual adventure gaming – kind of like the creature phase, only now you have guns and armor and stuff.
Wednesday, Mar 25
GDC Panel: Fulfilling the Massively-Single Player Promise - How'd We Do? [Gdc09]
The house didn't fill up, but it was a pretty decent talk. In the first five minutes, Producer Caryl D. Shaw changed the name of the panel to something about her life story and used the opportunity to talk about Spore online development and her cat.
Monday, Mar 23
Opinion: Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind Spore [Critique]
And toys and play, Wright says, go hand-in-hand. If you step way back and look at Spore as a whole it's meant to show a grand arch, the story of life," her said. "The Sims is like the story of life on Earth, Spore is life with a capital L." Goodwin says Spore "amplifies the imagination."
Thursday, Jan 22
Four New Spore Titles Unveiled for DS, Wii, PC [News]
Spore will make its highly-anticipated debut on the Nintendo Wii with Spore Hero, an all-new adventure game focusing on creativity and evolution that was built from the ground up for the unique controls for Wii™. Spore Hero takes players on an exciting adventure through a beautiful, col...
Tuesday, Dec 30
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars: Hardcore Returns to the Wii [Review]
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is one of the better Wii titles of the year. Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars was developed by Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock. Released on December 2 for the Wii, retails for $49.99. Played through the entire campaign.
Thursday, Oct 16
What Will Wright Thinks About Spore's DRM [Will Wright]
Will Wright attended the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards ceremony at the Hearst Tower in New York City last night where he saw Spore pick up an award for Setting Benchmarks in Design, Creativity and Engineering. I caught up with him afterward for a bit to find out his take on the whole...
Friday, Sep 12
Amazon Deletes All Spore Customer Reviews, Blames Site Glitch [Spore]
Earlier today, all 2000-plus reviews of Spore at Amazon.com were deleted. Temporarily, that is, and not part of an attempt to whitewash customer feedback, according to the company. Amazon reps told us that the deletion of the Spore reviews was not intentional, calling the removal of custo...
Spore Review: Evolutionary Creationism [Review]
Spore, developed by Maxis, published by Electronic Arts and released on Sept. 7 for the PC and Mac. Retails for $48 to $50. Reviewed on PC. Used all creators, played through space to space level and Omnipotent rank. Earned Spore Fan Achievement.
Tuesday, Sep 9
Frankenreview: Spore [Round Up]
Game industry legend Will Wright is no stranger to creating life, but Spore marks his first attempt to create it from the ground up. One of the most highly anticipated PC games of the past decade, Spore's ambitions don't stop at expanding what a life simulation can be. The game also seeks to ex...
Friday, Aug 15
Tetris, Spore, Scrabble and Sudoku – EA’s iPhone lineup [Impressions]
The most amazing iPhone game at the EA Showcase was Spore Origins – even if it hadn’t been up against such visually uninteresting things as Scrabble and Sudoku. Keep your eyes on the iPhone app store for each of these titles, but remember, Spore could be a while…
Wednesday, Jul 23
Liveblogging Will Wright Discussing His Inner Otaku At Comic-Con [Comic-con 08]
We're looking at the Civilization Stage right now, a simplified combination of SimCity and Civilization. We're zooming in and out of cities, the camera orbiting around the planet. This planet's natural resource, known as "spice" (Dune loving crowd laughs), is spewing forth from a geyse...
Saturday, Oct 27
It's Official: Spore Coming To The Wii [Confirmed]
In a recent interview with UK's Guardian Unlimited, Will Wright has finally confirmed that a version of Spore is being developed for the Wii. And despite the different controls, Wright seems to like working on the platform. We're doing Spore on the Wii, and we did MySims. It takes signifcant...
Wednesday, Mar 14
Kotaku Feature: Will Wright's SXSW Keynote
I just got out of Will Wright's keynote here at SXSW in Austin; a packed ballroom, a gobsmacked crowd. We got a Spore demo - an on-the-fly, operated by Will Wright demo - during which we got to see Spore from tiny slug to entire galaxy. We saw a player-generated facsimile of the Star Trek Enterpr...
