Posts Tagged ‘ Spore ’

EA’s Games Lineup for the Upcoming Year Brings Sims, Spore

Feb 9th, 2010 | By Calin Ciabai

Electronic Arts posted their latest financial results and also revealed their lineup of games for the upcoming fiscal year. There are a couple of surprise announcements there and we’re going to talk about all of them below, so read on to find out what goodies (or not) Electronic Arts plans to release next year!



Here’s the List of Best Selling PC Games of 2009

Jan 15th, 2010 | By Calin Ciabai

Even though classic retail stores are losing ground really fast to digital download portals, the classic brick and mortar buildings still get a pretty decent piece of the pie when it comes to computer games. Below you can check out the list of the bestselling PC games in 2009, according to NPD data:



Spore Movie Will Become a Reality

Oct 2nd, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

They (a generic “they,” indeed) are preparing to deliver Pac Man and The Sims movies, so why no Spore flicks? Well… “Spore is a computer game” is such a thing of the past. Now, following a report in Variety, Spore is a computer game that’s going to become a movie. And the first few details [...]



Spore Players Create 100K Galactic Adventures

Jul 31st, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

I did love playing Spore when it was released but it wasn’t a permanent spell – on the contrary. It appears that it’s been just my case, since one month after the release of Spore Galactic Adventures Electronic Arts and Maxis have announced that over 100,000 user-created adventures have been created. Which, no matter how [...]



Will Wright Will Continue Working on Spore

Apr 23rd, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Earlier this month, legendary game designer Will Wright left Maxis and Electronic Arts to run his “entertainment think tank”, Stupid Fun Club. Signs that Wright’s involvement in Maxis’ project was not over were revealed when we heard that EA co-owned Stupid Fun Club, but today we have confirmation from the man himself, who admitted that [...]



EA Prepares Spore: Hero and Other Spore Products for 2009

Jan 22nd, 2009 | By Calin Ciabai

Although it was not close to its potential success especially because of its simplified, cartoonish gameplay, Spore is still a milking cow and Electronic Arts will certainly do its best to squeeze even the last drip of milk: therefore, the company has announced that four new Spore products will be released by the end of [...]



The Top Five Most Disappointing Games of 2008

Dec 19th, 2008 | By Calin Ciabai

We’re just a few days short from finding out the winners of Unigamesity’s Best Games of 2008 awards, but there’s still a small (and rather unpleasant) step that has to be made now, just to make it easier for everybody to understand that huge budgets and obscene amounts of advertising are not the only things [...]



Games That Should Be Mixed Together, but Won’t

Dec 8th, 2008 | By Calin Ciabai

Formerly direct adversaries, Mario and Sonic teamed up and the result was incredible: high quality games enjoyed by millions of gamers. So it’s only fair to believe that mixing various elements from various successful titles would be a great resource of fun (and income for developers) – SoulCalibur went there with the Star Wars characters, [...]



Spore Is the Most Pirated Game of the Year

Dec 8th, 2008 | By Calin Ciabai

Spore is topping some charts no game developer wants to see their title in: the most pirated games of the year. Also, Maxis is the most pirated developer, grabbing the first two places – after Spore, the second most pirated game of 2008 was The Sims 2. Strangely, recently released Grand Theft Auto IV did [...]



Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack Available, Patch 1.03 Released

Nov 18th, 2008 | By Calin Ciabai

Today is the day when we get some brand new options for Spore Electronic Arts and Maxis nicely packed in a Creepy & Cute Parts Pack. However, this pack does not come alone, but with a patch that brings the game to version 1.03. Do they worth the trouble? Read our Spore review to find [...]