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Will Wright's New Studio Developing Three Projects, 'A Couple' Are Games

After Spore wrapped, games designer Will Wright left his home base of EA Maxis to form Stupid Fun Club, a company focused on expanding the idea of "play" in games and other mediums. Wright hasn't said specifically what Stupid Fun Club is up to, but an interview with Venture Beat provided a little more clarity on how much to expect...

Posted October 8, 2009 | 10 Comments
EA And 20th Century Fox Team Up For Spore Movie

Adapting video games for the big screen has become more popular than ever in the past few years (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Max Payne, Doom, etc.), and yet movies based on video games are, for the most part, below average at best. However, that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from wanting to bring popular gaming franchises to movie screens, and...

Posted October 2, 2009 | 33 Comments
Layoffs Reported At Maxis, Too

The economy continues to turn the screws on video game developers. Reports of layoffs at both Raven Software and Maxis have surfaced this afternoon, with confirmation coming from the respective owners of each studio, Activision and Electronic Arts. No word on how many were laid off at Maxis either, but here's what the company told...

Posted August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments
'Robot Chicken': 'Spore' Wars? - 'Galactic Adventures' Gets 'Robot Chicken' Content

To celebrate the release of Spore Galactic Adventures -- an expansion to Spore that lets people create and share their own adventures in the Sporeniverse -- Electronic Arts will release some free adventures via DLC on June 23 that were created by the writers of Robot Chicken, the Adult Swim stop-motion-with-toys sketch comedy show. According...

Posted May 19, 2009 | 3 Comments
Game Developers Choice Awards

After first reporting the results of the Game Developers Choice Awards, you know all the facts of the nominees, winners and losers. Now, experience the pageantry of the gaming limelight as X-Play unleashes the video coverage of the event that pitted heavyweights such as: Metal Gear Solid 4, Fallout 3, Fable II, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, Far...

Posted April 10, 2009 | 31 Comments
EA Releases PC DRM Management Tool

Electronic Arts has released a DRM Management Tool for its PC games released after May of last year. The tool will allow users to deauthorize game installs so the title can be reinstalled after a change of computer or hardware. Previously, EA had released individual tools for specific games, but this tool will cover all applicable EA...

Posted March 31, 2009 | 15 Comments
'Fallout 3' Wins Game Developers Choice Award

Fallout 3 was honored with the coveted Game of the Year award at the Game Developers Choice Awards held last night in San Francisco. Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG beat out Fable II, Left 4 Dead, LittleBigPlanet and Grand Theft Auto IV for the honor. LittleBigPlanet took home the most awards -- Sony's PS3 platformer won nearly half of all the...

Posted March 26, 2009 | 48 Comments
'Spore' Expansion Coming June 23rd

Electronic Arts has confirmed the release date of the first downloadable content for sandbox/strategy game Spore. "Galactic Adventures" will be yours, either through the Internets or at a local retailer on June 23rd. No word on a price yet. The "Galactic Adventures" expansion offers quest-based missions for the "space...

Posted March 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
'Spore: Galactic Adventures' Trailer: Set Your Space Captain Ego At Full Power

Kirk, Adama, Admiral Ackbar, Jean-Luc Picard and of Zapp Brannigan. What makes a space captain, a truly great space captain? And most importantly, are you up to snuff? That's the direct challenge posed to you in this booming trailer for the space-faring expansion to EA Maxis' life sim Spore: Galactic Adventures for the PC (June 23) and Mac...

Posted March 23, 2009 | 5 Comments
Contest Searching For Spore Applications

Hey, are you an aspiring developer? Do you want to develop a Spore widget or application? We have an opportunity for you: The Spore API contest. Use the extensive content in Sporepedia to create your app from scratch or download the source code from one of the sample apps, and create the most useful/coolest/most awesome application on...

Posted March 3, 2009
Game Developers Choice Awards Finalists Announced, 'LittleBigPlanet' And 'Braid' Lead

Think Services has announced the finalists for the Game Developers Choice Awards. The awards take place in March during the company's Game Developers Conference. The company's press release noted that, "Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet leads the nominees for the awards with seven nominations, including the coveted Game of the Year...

Posted February 10, 2009 | 39 Comments
'Spore: Galactic Adventures' NY Comic Con 2009 Impressions

Spore: Galactic Adventures, an expansion pack to Spore, hits shelves this spring on PC (EA still hasn’t announced whether it will support a simultaneous launch on the Mac). And with it comes the chance for players to build whole worlds and missions with the same psychotic drive and reckless abandon that led to 75-million species in the...

Posted February 7, 2009 | 6 Comments
The AIAS Announces The Finalist For The 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has announced the finalists for the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. The awards ceremony takes place at the organization's DICE Summit. The lists have most of the games you'd expect: Metal Gear Solid 4, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, etc. Leading the way was LittleBigPlanet, which snagged...

Posted January 23, 2009 | 101 Comments
Four New 'Spore' Games Announced

Four expansions to EA's innovative open-universe creature simulation Spore have been announced. They sound totally Spore-riffic. Here's the line-up: For the PC, there's the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion, scheduled for this spring. The game offers quest-based missions for the "space phase" of the original game, and allow...

Posted January 22, 2009 | 7 Comments
Shigeru Miyamoto And 'Spore' Honored By The Jim Henson Company

Shigeru Miyamoto and Electronic Arts' Spore won Jim Henson Honors awarded by The Jim Henson Company. As you know, Henson was a legendary entertainer and created some of the most memorable characters in pop culture history. His works include Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock. With characters like Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, and...

Posted January 15, 2009 | 8 Comments