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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
Between Will Wright’s new project, Spore, and his enduring legacy of The Sims, EA has no shortage of games this year which will appeal to the divine benefactor/merciless despot in all of us. At the EA press briefing on Monday afternoon, the simulation software was out in force, and audience members got several previews of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 27, 2008
Hello, friends, and thanks for briefly wondering what the hell GameSpyte is before scrolling past. If we’ve helped you to capture even a fragment of your youthful curiosity, then we’re happy. Today, we’ll be gazing into our liquid crystal displays for a look at what the future will hold for gamers — and perhaps the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Consumer Report: Nintendo Wii Menu version 3.3 update destroys homebrew, Freeloader support (Nintendo Wii Fanboy; Nintendo Everything via videogaming247) Enthusiast: PlayStation 3 “trophies,” in-game XMB finally inbound for firmware v2.40; release date unspecified (PlayStation.Blog) Nintendo’s Laurent “geeks and otaku” Fischer promises some sort of Wii storage [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Spore system requirements revealed, as lenient as we could hope for (Spore.com) EVE Online’s free expansion Emperian Age launches (EVE-Online.com) Wii FPS The Conduit dated Q1 2009; will include “competitive online multiplayer component” (High Voltage Software via WorthPlaying) Spyro: A New Beginning, Guilty Gear XX# Reload join Xbox [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
On this week’s Trailer Tuesday, we get some solid glimpses of Spore, The Conduit, and Dead Space. Any questions?
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
We were just thinking of giving EA a call to see if the Mass Effect DRM worries had infected their microorganisms as well, but it looks like there’s no need: several fansites (and Kotaku) recently received word from Maxis producer Caryl Shaw, who says there’s no 10-day checkup procedure for Spore.
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The ANGRY Pixel is reporting that over at the BioWare community forums, technical producer Derek French has disclosed that not only will the PC port of Mass Effect require SecuROM validation, but it will continue to require internet authentication at least once every 10 days.
Continue reading...Thursday, March 6, 2008
Although sales might not suffer, Spore will be one of the most pirated games in 2008.
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