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New Action-RPG Spore Game To Be Revealed During Comic-Con
Wonder what Will Wright’s evolution simulator Spore would look like as a sci-fi action-RPG? Well, all you have to do to find out is attend the Maxis Studio panel during Comic-Con next week. Read More?
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EA Registers "Darkspore" Spore Sequel?
EA has filed a trio of trademarks for "Darkspore" (discovered by superannuation) in connection with "computer game software; Downloadable computer game software via a global computer network and wireless devices; Video game software," as well as action figures, movies and just about everything else entertainment related. No...
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Will Wright's New Studio Developing Three Projects, 'A Couple' Are Games
After Spore wrapped, games designer Will Wright left his home base of EA Maxis to form Stupid Fun Club, a company focused on expanding the idea of "play" in games and other mediums. Wright hasn't said specifically what Stupid Fun Club is up to, but an interview with Venture Beat provided a little more clarity on how much to expect...
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EA And 20th Century Fox Team Up For Spore Movie
Adapting video games for the big screen has become more popular than ever in the past few years (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Max Payne, Doom, etc.), and yet movies based on video games are, for the most part, below average at best. However, that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from wanting to bring popular gaming franchises to movie screens, and...
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Layoffs Reported At Maxis, Too
The economy continues to turn the screws on video game developers. Reports of layoffs at both Raven Software and Maxis have surfaced this afternoon, with confirmation coming from the respective owners of each studio, Activision and Electronic Arts. No word on how many were laid off at Maxis either, but here's what the company told...
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'Robot Chicken': 'Spore' Wars? - 'Galactic Adventures' Gets 'Robot Chicken' Content
To celebrate the release of Spore Galactic Adventures -- an expansion to Spore that lets people create and share their own adventures in the Sporeniverse -- Electronic Arts will release some free adventures via DLC on June 23 that were created by the writers of Robot Chicken, the Adult Swim stop-motion-with-toys sketch comedy show. According...
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Game Developers Choice Awards
After first reporting the results of the Game Developers Choice Awards, you know all the facts of the nominees, winners and losers. Now, experience the pageantry of the gaming limelight as X-Play unleashes the video coverage of the event that pitted heavyweights such as: Metal Gear Solid 4, Fallout 3, Fable II, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, Far...
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EA Releases PC DRM Management Tool
Electronic Arts has released a DRM Management Tool for its PC games released after May of last year. The tool will allow users to deauthorize game installs so the title can be reinstalled after a change of computer or hardware. Previously, EA had released individual tools for specific games, but this tool will cover all applicable EA...
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'Fallout 3' Wins Game Developers Choice Award
Fallout 3 was honored with the coveted Game of the Year award at the Game Developers Choice Awards held last night in San Francisco. Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG beat out Fable II, Left 4 Dead, LittleBigPlanet and Grand Theft Auto IV for the honor. LittleBigPlanet took home the most awards -- Sony's PS3 platformer won nearly half of all the...
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'Spore' Expansion Coming June 23rd
Electronic Arts has confirmed the release date of the first downloadable content for sandbox/strategy game Spore. "Galactic Adventures" will be yours, either through the Internets or at a local retailer on June 23rd. No word on a price yet. The "Galactic Adventures" expansion offers quest-based missions for the "space...
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'Spore: Galactic Adventures' Trailer: Set Your Space Captain Ego At Full Power
Kirk, Adama, Admiral Ackbar, Jean-Luc Picard and of Zapp Brannigan. What makes a space captain, a truly great space captain? And most importantly, are you up to snuff? That's the direct challenge posed to you in this booming trailer for the space-faring expansion to EA Maxis' life sim Spore: Galactic Adventures for the PC (June 23) and Mac...
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Contest Searching For Spore Applications
Hey, are you an aspiring developer? Do you want to develop a Spore widget or application? We have an opportunity for you: The Spore API contest. Use the extensive content in Sporepedia to create your app from scratch or download the source code from one of the sample apps, and create the most useful/coolest/most awesome application on...
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Game Developers Choice Awards Finalists Announced, 'LittleBigPlanet' And 'Braid' Lead
Think Services has announced the finalists for the Game Developers Choice Awards. The awards take place in March during the company's Game Developers Conference. The company's press release noted that, "Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet leads the nominees for the awards with seven nominations, including the coveted Game of the Year...
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'Spore: Galactic Adventures' NY Comic Con 2009 Impressions
Spore: Galactic Adventures, an expansion pack to Spore, hits shelves this spring on PC (EA still hasn’t announced whether it will support a simultaneous launch on the Mac). And with it comes the chance for players to build whole worlds and missions with the same psychotic drive and reckless abandon that led to 75-million species in the...
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The AIAS Announces The Finalist For The 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has announced the finalists for the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. The awards ceremony takes place at the organization's DICE Summit. The lists have most of the games you'd expect: Metal Gear Solid 4, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, etc. Leading the way was LittleBigPlanet, which snagged...
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Face Time: Sims and Spore Creator Will Wright
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ECA PAX East Panel 2010 With Hal Halpin
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EA Booth E3 2009 Spotlight
471 Views | 02:24
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Game Developers Choice Awards: Innovation Award
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Spore: Galactic Adventures Space Captain Trailer
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