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Thursday, Oct 8
Will Wright Joins 'Play Industry,' Still Developing Games
Spore and Sims creator Will Wright left Electronic Arts to found Stupid Fun Club in April, and now a new interview has shed some light on what his team may be up to. "We are expanding what we call the 'play industry,'" Wright told VentureBeat. "Games are limited in some ways. Play can be applied t...
Friday, Oct 2
'Ice Age' Veterans Handling 'Spore' Film
Chris WedgeYet another Electronic Arts franchise is headed to the big screen, as the video game publisher has signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox for a film based off critter customizing series Spore. Variety reports that the movie is set to be an animated affair helmed by Ice Age and R...
Thursday, Sep 10
Evening Reading
Making my way to the California Academy of Sciences tonight to have some fun at the Morrison Planetarium, the largest digital planetarium in the world. EA held a Spore event at the place last year, three weeks before it opened to the public. Will Wright and Frank Drake (of Drake Equation fame...
Wednesday, Aug 26
EA Confirms Maxis Layoffs
It seems that today is not a good day to be a game developer for a successful studio, as publisher Electronic Arts has now confirmed a series of layoffs at Spore developer EA Maxis. "Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions," EA told...
Monday, Aug 17
Spore Hero Mounts Retail Assault in October
Spore Hero (Wii) on the left, Spore Hero Arena (DS) on the right. While the Wii entry is described as a story-driven "action-adventure game," the Nintendo DS version centers around combat, with players defeating an "evil force" by besting arena comp...
Sunday, Jun 14
May's 20 Top-Selling PC Games Sees Return of Fallout
Research group NPD's list of the 20 best-selling PC games in May shows mostly the usual players--Blizzard and Maxis--in their usual comfy chairs, slightly rearranged. Spore climbs five places following a $10 price cut, while StarCraft 2's imminent beta no doubt plays a hand in the StarC...
Tuesday, May 26
Weekly PC Sales: Empire Reclaimed
Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War gained ground on the sales list in an otherwise slow week for the PC retail sector. The strategy title, bolstered by several recent patches, managed a third place finish, while list stalwarts World of Warcraft, Left 4 Dead, Spore and Fallout hung on f...
Tuesday, May 19
Weekly PC Sales: Left 4 Dead Hangs On
As with last week and the weeks before, the lack of a major PC release means that NPD's list of the best-selling PC games at US stores hasn't changed much. WoW and Spore moved up, Empire and Fallout went down, and Bejeweled replaced Demigod. Fortunately, digital download provider Direct2Dr...
Monday, Nov 17
Spore Patch 1.03 Released, Adds 24 New Limbs
A new patch for EA Maxis' Spore is now available to download from FileShack. The update resolves a few bugs and adds 24 free exoskeleton limbs for enhanced creature creation, bringing the PC lifeform management game up to v1.03 in the process. Bug Fixes Fix for esc key not bringing up Options i...
