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Watch these two interviews with video game designer Will Wright for an insider's look into the gaming industry. He talks about SimCity, Spore, the first game he loved, what he thinks makes a game a success or a failure, AI, the Care Bears, and more.
Prototype tops NPD's monthly non-PC top 20 with nearly 600,000 units, while Ghostbusters just misses the top 10; Sims 3 new PC king, Spore Galactic Adventures opens strong.
[In this design analysis, first published in the March 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine, Maxis designer Soren Johnson (Spore, Civilization IV) addresses the potential of asynchronous multiplayer gaming.] One of the first things that separated video games from board, card, and parlor games was real-time interaction. The computer could handle all the details and challenges inherent in ...
Two new missions to celebrate Independence Day. July 2, 2009 - Happy 4th of July! To help celebrate our nation's birthday, the developers at Maxis have created two holiday-themed missions from the latest video game, Spore Galactic Adventures . The adventures, entitled 'How a Bill Becomes Law' and 'Kaboom!,' are both available for download today at www.spore.com.
In this week's look at the latest video games, we meet mischievous minions, angry yetis, hairy goblins and even pigs in wedlock.
jasoncart writes "Veteran gaming man Dave Perry has shown off his OnLive-rivalling, cloud gaming service called Gaikai in a new video that is drawing a lot of attention. As you can see from the video, Perry plays World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Mario Kart 64, Spore and more — all running on a bog-standard computer through the Gaikai website, itself running in a normal version of Firefox." More ...
Electronic Arts is expanding its Spore series, releasing Spore Galactic Adventures. The expansion features 16 missions in which the players earn new game elements such as weapons and experience to move through the ranks to become a space captain. The game also includes new planets that players can beam onto and play new adventures or use the "Adventure Creator" tool to create their own missions. ...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.----The Spore™ universe is expanding with infinite adventures! Today, Maxis™, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, announced that Spore™ Galactic Adventures, the expansion to the critically-acclaimed game Spore, is now available at North American retailers and will hit store shelves internationally on June 25th.
EA on Tuesday announced that the Spore expansion pack Galactic Adventures is now available at North American retailers, with international shipments arriving on Thursday, June 25. The game allows players to assume the role of a spaceship captain and travel the galaxy undertaking new adventures created by them as well as other gamers.
Spore: Galactic Adventures (PC) Build your own adventure.
Plus, an exclusive Spore: Galactic Adventures behind the scenes video with Robot Chicken at Maxis' studios.
Filed under: RPG , RTS , Simulation , Strategy , Meta BD , Fallout 3 , Spore After the last few weeks with only one or two new releases, this week has a bunch of PC game titles being released to stores. In addition we get the latest downloadable expansion to last year's big RPG release. Overlord II : Developer Triumph Studios and publisher Codemasters put this sequel to the unusual ...
Knock 'em, sock 'em robots and ring generals lead a busy week at retail along with the Conduit, Spore expansion, Resident Evil Archives, and new Shin Megami Tensei and Overlord games.