Electronic Arts has announced a trio of new titles based on the critically acclaimed universe of the "Spore" franchise. "Spore Hero" marks the franchise's debut on the Wii. No real details have been disclosed, other than the plain fact it's an "all-new adventure game" with a from-scratch development process, exclusively for Nintendo's popular home system. "Spore Hero [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Steam users in Europe are still dealing with the whole price issue, but at least now you’ll be getting EA games! As of yesterday afternoon, EA’s newly announced Steam titles (except or Warhammer Online) are now available “in most of Europe,” with the odd man out being--inexplicably--the UK. Mainland European Steam players will be able to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
While it will not fix any of the alleged hardware and software incompatibilities that have inspired multiple individuals to file class-action lawsuits against the company, a new EA tool will allow you to do one thing most PC owners have long taken for granted -- uninstall and reinstall the game itself. Today, three months to the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
It's no secret that EA has been upset with the number of people who illegally downloaded Spore. Still, they're determined to make the game into Will Wright's next Mega Franchise, and they're so set on doing so that they may release Spore on Valve's Steam. While there's been no official announcement (or response to emails) [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
EA just finished their quarterly update for investors, focusing on the rest of fiscal year 2009 and 2010. Without spoiling too much…things don’t look too good for EA. EA’s John Riccitiello pretty much summed up EA’s entire presentation with part of his opening remarks: “While we saw significant improvement in our quality of products this year, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
Torrentfreak has released their list of the Top 10 games pirated in 2008, and while the list of 10 itself contains almost no surprises, what is surprising is one man is responsible for the top two: Will Wright. Obviously, we all knew Spore would top the list. The game had record-breaking downloads, thanks in no small [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
EA CEO John Riccitiello personally hates DRM, but much to the bane of PC gamers -- and the delight of class-action attorneys -- most of EA's high-profile titles include the controversal SecuROM copy-protection solution anyhow. But speaking on the behalf of the PC Gaming Alliance yesterday, Capcom's VP of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
SecuROM, the bane of PC gamers worldwide, has managed to make it into game after high-profile game this year. Mass Effect, Far Cry 2, Dead Space, Fallout 3, Red Alert 3, Sacred 2 and now even the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 4 feature the controversial DRM software. But none of the hardcore titles [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
EA announced today that Will Wright's Spore has sold one million copies worldwide, across PC and Nintendo DS, since its September 7th release. According to NPD data posted at GamesIndustry.biz, the PC version of has also been crowned king of the hill in US software sales, sitting atop a stack of other EA titles and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Back in March, game developer and Gamasutra contributor Ian Bogost went to Toronto, and came back with two things: a glowing preview of the Spore Creature Creator (only tempered by an intuition that the game might not cater to the same broad audience as The Sims) -- and within that preview, news that Spore would [...]
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