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Electronic Arts and its development studio Maxis have announced that the Spore franchise has successfully made the move to Facebook, the most popular social networking platform on the Internet. The new game is called Spore Islands and is set to offer all the fans of the series an easy way to connect with others and t... |
9 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The Sims 3 World Adventures expansion pack is set to arrive in November and Electronic Arts is keen on showing off the new content that players will enjoy when getting this fresh Sims experience. One of the selling points of the package is set to be the music featured, with a lot of stars, including Katie Melua and L... |
15 October 2009
03:56 GMT |
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These seem to be tough times for all videogame developers. Raven Software, which has put together the newest Wolfenstein title, has announced layoffs amounting to around 60 people, and now Maxis, the Electronic Arts subsidiary in charge of creating last year’s Spore and this year’s The Sims 3, is said to ... |
27 August 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies in gaming, owning a huge amount of highly profitable franchises, from its sports ones, like FIFA or Madden, to other titles like Need for Speed or Sims. This has generated a lot of profit for the company, which has been reinvesting in creating new and interesting franch... |
18 August 2009
02:24 GMT |
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Spore has been one of the most talked about titles of last year. But even though its publisher, Electronic Arts, would have liked for these talks to revolve around the quality of the game and how much fun it was, many were about the draconic DRM software, which protected it against piracy by imposing some very tight ... |
30 June 2009
02:22 GMT |
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There are a few certain things in life, like death and taxes. And, if you are a gamer, there's a third certainty: slap a The Sims label on a content disk and it will sell like crazy. The series has sold over 100 million copies (all products combined) and The Sims 2 got more expansion packs than I can count or re... |
12 June 2009
09:01 GMT |
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With the release date more than a week away, The Sims 3, the biggest game that Electronic Arts will release this summer, has been pirated by more than 100,000 people. The most recent estimates show that close to 200,000 have used or are using file sharing sites to get the pirated version of the videogame before it ar... |
29 May 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Maxis and Electronic Arts are still working hard on adding new members to the family of Spore videogames, after the rather limited impact made by the release of the original game in late 2008. New details have just been offered on Spore Hero, which is set to arrive on the Nintendo Wii, and Spore Hero Arena, a spin of... |
14 May 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that the latest iteration in the Sims series, The Sims 3, is set to launch across the Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC and mobile devices this summer. EA and Maxis’ hugely popular life simulation game will let players customize and create a totally original virtual person / Sim.“T... |
5 February 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that the long awaited Sims 3 would be released on June 2, 2009, following the delay from its original date in February. The game is set to arrive on the PC, the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod Touch and other mobile phones.The Sims 3 will be one of the most important releases for Electronic Ar... |
4 February 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Spore was a disappointment to many, a sleeping hit to others. The new intellectual property created by Will Wright and the team at Maxis, under the rallying cry of “Sim everything!” managed to do well at retail but the way the various stages worked was very different from what the players and critics envi... |
22 January 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and Maxis have released a de-deauthorization tool for Spore players looking to free up a machine / slot on the online Product Authorization server. Basically, gamers de-authorize at will, and are able to install Spore on additional machines as long as they have a free slot. However, as sad as it soun... |
19 December 2008
06:35 GMT |
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The New York Times has an interesting piece on Spore creator, Will Wright. The publication took some time to discuss less gaming-focused aspects, and more personal ones related to the creator of the most popular simulation game currently available for Mac. Facts about Wright range from the worst thing about job and p... |
25 November 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and Maxis have release the third patch for their evolutionary game Spore. There is not much in the way of changes made to the game, but those who get the update will also receive 24 new exoskeleton limbs as part of the package.There's a server side fix aimed at keeping achievements on the servers... |
19 November 2008
05:59 GMT |
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EA and Maxis have released a new patch for Spore. Mac users' frustrations are about to end, according to the two companies, as the patch includes fixes for issues reported by players. Also included are some gameplay tweaks, the option to select multiple items for deleting or banning in the Sporepedia, and a "coo... |
5 November 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Spore has received the second patch, for the PC at the moment. The big features of the patch are an ability to use the classic Control and Shift methods for selections of multiple creations and creation ranges in the Sporepedia. Also, in what might prove to be a controversial move, there are now Cubic planets in the ... |
21 October 2008
19:11 GMT |
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As already reported, the first add on pack for Spore will arrive on November 18 and is called The Cute & Creepy Parts Pack. A full expansion, which will bring other activities that you can perform during the Space stage, will arrive sometime in spring 2009. Electronic Arts is all serious about expanding the uni... |
15 October 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Spore was, no doubt about it, affected by the controversy related to its DRM and to account creation. There was also a high degree of piracy affecting the game. Still the Maxis developed and Electronic Arts published game has managed to sell more than 1 million copies since it was released on September 7. This number... |
25 September 2008
21:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts announces that it has released the first patch for its Spore, a title that is already a big hit with gamers while also being at the center of several controversies regarding DRM and restrictions.This first patch is designed to address some bugs that the community identified and which tend to limit the... |
23 September 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Spore player complaints have made the headlines lately regarding Electronic Arts' DRM policy for the God game, recently released for the Macintosh platform. EA Games president Frank Gibeau revealed in a statement that the company would increase the number of installations from three to five and would institute a... |
22 September 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Do you have kids? A significant other? A close friend that you consider important enough to allow them to create a separate account on your Spore game? Well, tough luck because it seems that Electronic Arts believes that multiple accounts for different people are a luxury that gaming should not allow.Even if the game... |
16 September 2008
21:21 GMT |
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Spore might be the most awaited and most hyped up game of the year. Will Wright, one of the most influential authors in the videogame world, is working on it, backed up by the team that designed The Sims and the various games connected with that franchise. The Spore Creature Creator, which was released earlier i... |
3 September 2008
14:11 GMT |
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The wait is almost over, since Electronic Arts and Maxis have announced that the most anticipated game of the year, Spore, has gone gold and will hit the retail shelves on the 5th of September in Europe and the 7th of September in North America and Asia. Also, at the same time with the North American release, the DS ... |
15 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Spore, the most anticipated game of the year, is most likely to become as huge as The Sims was or even bigger. However, Electronic Arts and Maxis don't want their masterpiece to stay only in the game world, like The Sims did - they want to further expand the universe to other media, like television and cinema. S... |
15 August 2008
02:43 GMT |
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Speaking as part of a conference call which followed the unveiling of financial results for the first quarter of the year, Electronic Arts top man John Riccitiello talked a bit about Spore and about how his company needed to treat this game carefully in its effort to establish a new franchise that would rival even Si... |
31 July 2008
18:11 GMT |
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Spore has taken the world by surprise and with the help of the Creature Creator, Maxis made sure that by the time Spore launches in September, everyone will be familiarized with the intricacies of creature building. My colleague reported last week that users from all over the world had uploaded more than 250.000 crea... |
26 June 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Spore is that kind of game which makes you want it so bad that it starts hurting when you realize September is still a few months away. Also, with the recently released Creature Creator, Maxis and Electronic Arts have managed to prove once again that we do have all the reasons in the world to count down the days left... |
21 June 2008
03:46 GMT |
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According to Electronic Arts, Neil Young, one of the veterans of the company and one of the most acclaimed managers of Electronic Arts Los Angeles, is leaving the company. His replacement as head of EA's Blueprint studio is set to be Lou Castle, who came to Electronic Arts when his old studio, Westwood, was gobb... |
20 June 2008
02:40 GMT |
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You probably already know about the recently released Spore Creature Creator - a teaser from Maxis and Electronic Arts - that allows everybody to design and bring to life a little beast he or she will be able to use in the full game, when it gets released in September. What you probably don't know is the fact th... |
19 June 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Finally, the Spore Creature Creator is HERE! Featuring 25% of the creature-making parts from Spore, the trial version of the Creature Creator lets players shape, paint and play with their custom-created creature, but also share it with friends or shoot it in action and upload it to YouTube. The full version of the Cr... |
17 June 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Be sure to drop by first thing tomorrow when you wake up, if you're a Spore fan. EA and Maxis will be making the Spore Creature Creator available in both purchasable and demo version, with the latter being available for download right here on our website."Tired of your planet? Once you've made some creature... |
16 June 2008
08:24 GMT |
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You have probably loved the funny green alien Abe and the strange Oddworld back when PC systems were still considered the best gaming platforms. I am sure that many of Abe's fans would still love to see a new game set in the Oddworld universe, even though, let's be honest, Oddworld Inhabitant's franchi... |
23 May 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Just yesterday, Lucy Bradshaw was telling the press Spore will be equally fun for any kind of gamer. With the game due out in September this year for both Mac and iPhone, Worthplaying has posted new screen-grabs and videos of the upcoming "god game" designed by Will Wright.Click here to see how Spore is shaping up la... |
22 May 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Spore Executive Producer Lucy Bradshaw weighs in on gameplay and the importance of user generated content in Maxis and EA's upcoming God game, Spore, in an interview with GamersGlobal. The Mac version of the highly anticipated simulation title is expected this September, with an iPhone version also being in the ... |
21 May 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Developing and publishing giant Electronic Arts along with Maxis have confirmed the upcoming availability of a downloadable demo, but also the full retail version of the Spore Creature Creator. Available starting June 17, 2008, the Spore Creature Creator will be the first opportunity for fans for a hands-on experienc... |
29 April 2008
06:39 GMT |
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The most anticipated PC game of the year, Spore, is going to finally hit the market early September as everybody knows already. However, most of us would simply like to fast forward time to September in order to just play the game and create hundreds of creatures. But, even though Spore will allow us to play God, we ... |
22 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Finally, after years of development, Electronic Arts and Maxis (the guys behind the Sims series of video games) can finally confirm that Will Wright's latest project, Spore, is due out for Macs on September 7th, this year. The "God game" is one of the few in its genre to arrive on Mac."The wait is almost over," ... |
13 February 2008
10:31 GMT |
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When the creators of The Sims announce that they are developing a new game it seems natural to be really curious. And when you hear that you will basically be able to re-write history since the beginning of the world to present times in a completely unique life sim, you get really excited. But all the problems will b... |
13 February 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has confirmed at the Macworld Expo today that Spore will become available for Mac users too later this year. Will Wright's god game is set for display at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, CA throughout this week. The PC version will be released later this year."We couldn't be happier to b... |
16 January 2008
08:24 GMT |
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What would you do if you were shipwrecked on a deserted island? What if your only way of entertaining yourself was a PSP? And what if the only UMD available was The Sims 2 Castaway? In this ocean of possibilities, one thing is for sure: we're dealing with another Sims-branded blockbuster and this time it will o... |
1 November 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Spore, developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright is one of the most anticipated PC titles of the year. However, starting now, it may very well become one of the most anticipated console titles as well. That's right boys and girls, according to Eurogamer.biz, Maxis is turning its head towards consoles, seein... |
27 August 2007
08:21 GMT |
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Back in May, gaming sites all around the world were shocked to find out that Will Wright's God game, Spore wasn't even listed on EA's fiscal calendar for 2008. Thus, GamingToday reckoned back then that Spore wasn't going to be available until March 2008, and even that particular date sounded like ... |
3 August 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Not that anyone's trying to promote The Sims all of the sudden, but I thought you'd like to hear that female celebrities are into games, just as hardcore nerds are. Not that digging games makes celebrities nerds... OK, I'm losing it here, but it's just that I can't stop staring at this pictur... |
4 June 2007
19:06 GMT |
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Transferring money has just been made a great deal easier by Maxis company. This top mobile phone operator from Malaysia has just introduced the first mobile international money transaction service called M-money.Maxis mobile phone service provider designed the M-money product only for people that live in the Philip... |
31 May 2007
11:18 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks was chosen by Maxis, a top Malaysian mobile operator, to integrate, host and deliver "Master of Maya" - a brand new interactive mobile game. Ready to be launched at the end of this month, the new game will allow subscribers to use their mobile devices and play online, competing against each oth... |
31 May 2007
09:43 GMT |
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First of all, mere speculations sustained that the game would be out by late 2007, so take anyone's picture, print it and make a shrine where you poke their face with syringe needles by candle light. The game hasn't actually been delayed, but more moved to another "assumed" release date as Will Wright'... |
10 May 2007
07:26 GMT |
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Your Sims can now celebrate in style with this fun collection of furniture, party fashions and decor items. Dress your Sims in dazzling wedding attire for a posh outdoor ceremony, decorate their house and garden to throw the ultimate fiesta, or invite the neighbors over for an elegant evening event. Throw the ultim... |
5 April 2007
02:15 GMT |
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The saga of our lovely virtual little people called "Sims" really started with their houses. After already placing their foundations of the Maxis Empire with the SimCity series, the creators wanted to turn their attention to the details. Hence they had this great idea about being able to build your own virtual neighb... |
26 March 2007
07:44 GMT |
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Sims Have New Friends - Pets! Sims can share their lives with their new pets and add more fun to the Sims experience. From dogs, cats, caged animals and more, your Sims share new friends to experience life's precious moments. With so many different animals to choose from, there's no telling what unpredictab... |
16 March 2007
05:14 GMT |
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Oh, that Game Developers Conference-people from the world of games saying what's on their mind, giving advices, shooting their mouths off, criticizing, showing off, making radical statements and so on. Still, up until this year's GDC, everyone was peaceful about it, but not this year. Chris Hecker, game dev... |
9 March 2007
09:45 GMT |
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