EA sets up 'Spore' at Fox: Twentieth Century Fox has paired up with Electronic Arts to turn the publisher's popular "Spore" game into an animated creature feature, with "Ice Age's" Chris Wedge attached to helm.
EA has released the latest update for their life sim Spore and it's expansion Galactic Adventures, now available for download.
The amount of users downloading The Sims 3 from torrent sites indicates that the title's long-term piracy rate could top that of Spore, the most pirated title of 2008.
Sporeillustrated: Despite a fast start followed by some big setbacks, Spore celebrates its 100 millionth creation. Let's take a look at how Spore got to the huge milestone achieved on April 30th, 2009 at about 5:10pm EST.
EA has revealed some details for the upcoming Galactic Adventures expansion of their PC life-sim title Spore.
GameDaily BIZ just got off the phone with legendary game designer Will Wright, who as you know recently left Electronic Arts to pursue his entertainment think tank, Stupid Fun Club (of which EA is a co-owner). Although Lucy Bradshaw, VP and General Manager at Maxis, reassured us when the news broke that Spore would be in good hands and that Wright's legacy and the culture he instilled at Maxis would help steer Spore's future, Wright today confirmed with us that he will actually still be providing feedback to EA on Spore and other projects.
As you may already know and bitch about, some EA PC games only allow the owner to install the game on five machines. Back in December, EA released a de-authorization tool for Spore which allowed users to switch these five authorizations around between machines. Now they've unveiled a new tool that allows you to do this for over a dozen different games with SecuROM.
Spore Galactic Adventures, the first of four upcoming expansions for EA Maxis' Spore, has received a release date of June 23rd via an EA press release. No pricing was announced as of yet.
As part of the Serious Games Summit, journalist and and consultant Margaret Robertson investigated Maxis' Spore in the context of serious games -- and in that exploration, made smart insights into the more general interest and debate around the title.
Gamasutra writes:
Both Spore and LittleBigPlanet are games that ride the "user generated content" train that seems to be so popular these days. Despite the fact that LittleBigPlanet benefited from its appealing central characters and PS3 exclusivity (which always guarantees press and fan attention), Maxis is confident that it still rules the user created content roost, and that LBP hasn't stolen its hype.
CVG: "Spore senior producer Morgan Roarty has been weighing up the similarities between the Maxis game and Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet, as well as their relative strengths. Speaking to us at a recent EA event, Roarty contemplated whether LittleBigPlanet had stolen all of the hype surrounding user created game content in recent times."
GamingShogun writes, "The Spore franchise is evolving! With more than 65 million pieces of user-created content shared online, fans from around the globe have gravitated to the game's powerful creativity-centered experience and massively single-player content sharing site. This year, the award-winning Spore franchise continues to..."
Spore's forthcoming build-your-own-quest expansion, Galactic Adventures, is not the add-on that Maxis first planned. According to senior producer Morgan Roarty, the studio's initial concept was to introduce a story that would be told across several of the game's stages.
CVG Writes: EA Maxis has confirmed plans to release four new Spore products in calendar year 2009.
Today's news gathering has everything the TGR staff truly loves: boiling hate, Spore and Uwe Boll being publicly disgraced.
Super sim Spore will get its first expansion pack in the form of Galactic Adventures this Spring, according to an invite from Electronic Arts. And, no, the Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack doesn't count!
TVGB: "I bet everyone is feeling pretty good during this holiday season, so I wanted to take some time to rain on the parade a bit by taking a look back at 2008 and revisit some of the major disappointments gamers had to deal with in the PC gaming world.."
EA has signed on with Valve's highly popular digital distribution program Steam to distribute their games including recent releases, and with some added good news. Titles such as Spore and Mass Effect that have come under heavy fire for DRM usage, will no longer have any SecuROM protection. All games will use Steam's DRM.