News tagged with Spore (47 results)
Spore Trailer
The Spore
Website now features a new behind-the-scenes for Spore (or is it SPORE?),
the upcoming evolution game. Curious about how creative and diverse the
developers at Maxis are? Hear about it from their own mouths! The clip is
mirrored on AtomicGamer,
FileFront, and Gamer's
Hell.
...
Spore Q&A
Thomas Vu explores Spore on Play.TM
chats with the producer on Spore, EA's upcoming evolutionary adventure
game: "Taking a microscopic cell and evolving it into an intergalactic
space-faring race, while interacting with thousands of creations along the way
is conceptually a monumental u...
Spore Editor(s) in June
IGN (thanks Mike Martinez and
Joystiq) has a follow-up on indications that a Spore creature editor
will be made available (story) in advance of the release of the
evolutionary simulation in September (story). Word from Maxis'
Patrick Buechner is the Spore creature editor is a retail product...
Spore Editor Details
EA and Maxis follow up on word that free and retail versions of the Spore
creature editor will be released in June (story) with an official
announcement that fills in more details, including pricing: Redwood City,
CA - April 25, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Maxis today
anno...
On Mass Effect & Spore Copy Protection
There's a massive thread on the
Mass Effect Community Forums about the SecuROM copy-protection scheme
planned for Mass Effect, BioWare's upcoming RPG (thanks Wolfox). The game
will not need the disk in the drive to play, but will require an internet
connection for installation to validate t...
Spore Movie
A new "cell phase" trailer from Spore offers a look at gameplay from the
earliest stage of the upcoming evolutionary simulation. The clip is narrated by
Matt Powers, who explains the simple existence of your simple creature at this
point in its development. The clip can be found on
...
Spore Movies
Some new Spore movies are now available to show off EA's upcoming life
simulation, the clip
on this page
is narrated by Will Wright demonstrating some Spore science and
the clip here
features Alex Huntchinson discussing the game's creature phase. Additionally,
there's a Spore Creature
Cr...
Spore Video
There's a new Spore video on
MySporePage where designer Will Wright gives an overview of the upcoming
evolution simulation. He outlines the different ways gameplay evolves along with
your creatures in the game, with gameplay footage offering examples of what he's
describing. Thanks Sporenorm...
Spore Tribal Movie
Another new Spore movie is now available, this time to show off the Tribal phase
in the upcoming evolutionary simulation from EA Maxis. The clip is narrated by
Lauren McHugh, who describes the two ways a tribe can flourish, either by
cooperation or conflict (refuting the musical point that &qu...
Spore System Requirements
Shacknews has posted
system requirements for Spore, EA Maxis' upcoming evolution game. They
offer further details, but here's the overview, which seems pretty
modest:FOR WINDOWS XP
• 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
&nbs...
Spore Creature Creator Tomorrow
Electronic Arts
reminds us that legitimate downloads of the Spore Creature Creator are slated to
begin tomorrow on the
Spore Website: Unleash your Creature Creativity!
How do you feel about tentacles? Why only two eyes? Create your own unique
creatures and watch them come to life, then s...
Spore Creature Creator Released
As announced here,
the promised PC and Mac editions of the Spore creature creator are now
available as both retail releases and free trial versions to pave the way for
the release of EA Maxis' evolution game in September. The full versions and free
trials can be found on
the Get Spore Webs...
Spore Galactic Edition
GameStop has a new listing for a Spore Galactic Edition, a version of
the Spore package designed to appeal to all residents of the Milky Way (thanks
xXBatmanXx). This special edition of the evolution simulation includes a "Making
of" DVD, a National Geographic "'The Human Tool...
Spore Q&A
The
Spore Q&A on Gamasutra talks with Soren Johnson about Spore, and his
transition to working on EA Maxis' upcoming evolution game after years of
working on the civilization series at Firaxis. They discuss his part in helping
craft the game's strategy elements and the care being taken ...
Spore "Prototype" Released
The Spore Community Website
now offers downloads of ParticleMan, one of the simple, playable prototypes
they've built to test subsystems they are incorporating into Spore, EA
Maxis' upcoming evolution simulation (thanks Mike Martinez) and
Kotaku).
Word is: "ParticleMan simulates gravit...
Spore Trailer
The E3 trailer for Spore offers a narrated introduction to EA Maxis' upcoming
life simulation, clearly indicating that intelligent design, rather than
evolution is at work in this game. The movie is posted on
Gamer's Hell and
MyGameTrailers.
...
Spore to Feature an Ending
Joystiq is highlighting a tidbit revealed during the E3 presentations for
Spore, EA Maxis' upcoming life simulation (thanks Mike Martinez). They say the outer
space portion of the game, which producer Thomas Vu refers to as its
role-playing phase, will offer 15-20 hours of gameplay. What thi...
New Spore Prototype & Email Tool
EA Maxis announces the MashON SPORE
E-Card Website, an online application that will allow users to email
customized content from the Spore Creature Creator as well as Spore, the
upcoming life simulation. They also announce
their Spore Protoypes page
now offers BIOME, another prototype testi...
Spore Near Gold
EA's 'Spore' a week
from being finished on CNET has comments from Spore producer Thomas
Vu who reflects on how surprised they've been by the output of the Spore
Creature Creator, as characters have already been created that are beyond what
they believed to be the capabilities of the editor. ...
Maxis: Spore Doesn't Need Demo, Does Need DRM
Eurogamer has
word from Maxis that there will be no demo for Spore, the now-gold
life simulation, quoting executive producer Lucy Bradshaw, who also told them
"yes, we'll add to the experience," when asked about expansions, but also
mentioned plans to eventually distribute the flor...
Spore Q&A
Will Wright on the origins of 'Spore' (thanks Mike Martinez) chats with the
Spore-meister about Maxis' imminent life simulation, inquiring about the game's
origins and development: "The earliest evolution of it had to do with the SETI
Project. The original concept was sort of a toy gala...
Spore Preloads
Pre-downloads are now underway for preorder customers for
the downloadable PC edition of Spore from the EA store who will be
able to acquire about 99% of the game in advance of its release on September 7
in North America and September 5 in Europe (though you will be charged for the
game imm...
Spore and "Horizontal Expansion"
We
Chat With Will Wright About The Evolution Of Spore on GameInformer talks
with the designer behind Maxis' imminent life simulation. They discuss design
challenges, gameplay, evolution versus intelligent design, and learn that Wright
is not unaware of the amount of attention Spore is receiv...
Spore Space Phase Movie; Mac Requirements
A new Spore trailer shows off the space phase from EA Maxis' imminent
strategic life simulation. The gameplay clip features exploration, combat and
various views of what seem to be itty-bitty planets, along with narration from
producer Kip Katsarelis explaining what's going on. The movie is po...
Spore Sales Prediction
Spore expected to sell 2 million in US in September quotes sales projections
by Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets. Among the specific things he's
seen in his crystal ball are US sales of 2 million copies of Spore in September
and around 650K sign-ups this month for Warhammer Online: ...
Spore Articles
Electronic Arts Bets Big on a New Game on the WSJ.com has an extensive
article on Spore, among other things, discussing the difficult time EA will have
explaining the game in a way that does not ,make it seem so complex that it will
turn off less hardcore players. Also,
New Computer Game,...
Ships Ahoy - Spore
Spore
Available at Retailers Worldwide This Week From EA and Maxis announces the
beginning of the three-stage rollout for Spore, the new life simulation for EA
Maxis. The game is being released for Windows, Macintosh, DS, mobile phones, and
the iPhone, and as of today the game should be show...
Wright: Spore "Will Change the Way People Look at Games Forever"
Spore - changing the
game is a BBC article talking with Maxis about Spore, getting Will
Wright to overcome his aversion to hype, quoting the designer as saying: "Spore
will change the way people look at games forever and change hopefully the
perception people have of their own creativit...
Spore Login Problems
Electronic Arts UK Forums have word that EA is aware of issues purchasers of
the just-released (in Europe) Spore are having logging in, along with
other server problems. They say they are working to fix this as soon as
possible, and in the meantime, you should remove your clothes: "We a...
On the Versatile Spore Engine
Kotaku has a story about the potential of Spore, discussing the
viability of the game's underlying engine for use powering other kinds of games
across various platforms. They quote EA's Frank Gibeau on the topic: "What's so
beautiful about Spore is that it's extremely malleable. You cou...
Spore Debuts in North America
As noted in
last week's Spore shipping announcement (story), the global
rollout of the life simulation is now complete, as the game should be appearing
in North American stores today. On related notes, there's a
post-release Spore
interview on Shacknews talking with Morgan Roarty about how ...
Multiple Spore Accounts Issue?
A
thread on EA's UK Spore Support Forum explores an issue with account
creation in EA's just-released life simulation. Users are having difficulty
creating more than one account for Spore, even though the manual states: "you
may have multiple Spore accounts for each installation of the...
More Spore Prototypes
EA's Spore Prototypes Page
now offers 11 more playable prototype systems "exploring countless design
directions in gameplay, simulation and user interface" created as part of the
process of designing Spore, the just-released life simulation. As they
explain: "Usually these pro...
Spore
Yes, just Spore. 'Spore' is Will
Wright's latest game-changer on MSNBC.com. Also,
Exclusive How to Build a Better Being Preview has the first ten minutes of a
program on Spore that will air on the National Geographic Channel tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Art Imitates
Life- Long-Awaited Spore Video...
Spore - One Account Per Household
The EA Forums
have a confirmation that only one account can be created in Spore per
purchased copy, in spite of the game's manual saying otherwise, an issue first
reported here last week (story). According to Violet from EA, the
manual for the just-released life simulation has a misprint: &q...
EA on Spore DRM
Gamasutra
has a report on the ongoing controversy over the digital rights management in
Spore, reporting that for a time today the Amazon reviews criticizing the DRM
(story) disappeared (they were later returned with an
explanation that their removal was an accident). EA responds to th...
On Spore Piracy
Spore's Piracy Problem on Forbes is one of those forays into trying to
evaluate the extent of game piracy, in this case for Spore, by looking at
peer-to-peer statistics. This is particularly interesting in light of the
controversy over Spore's digital rights management, which is upsetting ma...
Spore DRM Text Drive
Ars puts Spore DRM to the test—with a surprising result relates the
experience of Ars Technica with the controversial digital rights management in
Spore. Their findings include that the life simulation can be installed
an unlimited number of times on the same computer, that the game cannot be...
Spore DRM Post of the Day
MTV Multiplayer contacted Electronic Arts to follow up on four major
complaints about the SecuROM digital rights management in Spore; that it
is limited to installation on three computers, that the DRM has some sort of
spyware functionality, that only one Spore account can be created in spit...
Spore Patch
A new patch for the Windows edition of Spore is now available, updating
Maxis' life simulation to version 1.01 with a number of new cheats, changes,
fixes, and features. The patch is available via the EA Downloader (available via
this direct
link if you didn't install it with the game), and t...
Multiple Spore Screen Names Coming
A post by Maxis to
the Spore Forums has word that they are adding the ability to have up to
five screen names per Spore account, responding to one of the criticisms
of the life simulation (story), though they cannot pin down an
ETA for this change. They will only allow one online account per...
Spore Patch Issues
Spore Patch Thread
Problems & Solutions on the Spore Forum (the Sporum) outlines problems users
are having with the newly released version 1.1 patch for Spore
(story) along with possible solutions and workarounds. There
seems to be reason for concern based on
this Stability Poll
on th...
Spore DRM Lawsuit
The
Courthouse News Service has news of a class action lawsuit filed in US
federal court against Electronic Arts over the digital rights management in
Spore, the recently released life simulator (though their reporting of the
details of the case is inaccurate). The suit is over the stealthy...
Spore Sales
EA announces that
Spore has sold over one million units for PC, Mac, and DS since the launch
of the life simulation a couple of weeks ago, and that over 25 million
creatures, vehicles, and buildings have been uploaded to the
Sporepedia (26,531,862 as
of this writing). They also highli...
Mac Spore Patch
The Spore Website has word that a patch
is now available for the Macintosh edition of Spore. No version number is
mentioned, but the change list is the same as the PC version 1.1 patch. Mac
users can get the new version simply by launching the game.
...
On Spore DRM & Re-Sales
Ars Technica has a discussion of one of the implications of how activations
of the SecuROM copy protection in Spore are handled, as those who purchase
used copies of the game may find it difficult or impossible to activate the game
without details on the user account of the previous owner. T...
Spore DRM Post of the Day
Spore &
Piracy- EA, ESA, Analysts Weigh In on Gamasutra gathers opinions form
analysts and EA to examine whether assertions that the controversial SecruROM
DRM in Spore has actually harmed sales of the life simulation, rather
than helped them by protecting the game from piracy. EA argues...
