Civilization

By Ross Miller Creature/Outfitter: 6.3%Vehicle: 17.12%Building: 67.75%Spaceship: 8.65% Favorite Phase1: Cell (15.45%)Creature (30.9%)Tribal (6.01%)Civilization (11.16%)Space (36.27%) Least Favorite Phase1: Cell (17.18%)Creature (11.89%)Tribal (37.23%) Civilization (18.94%)

By Joystiq Staff Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta (about Joystiq) Spore, Spore, Spore and did we mention Spore? Yep we were all over this past week's release of the long awaited game at Big Download but we did talk about some other things as well. Let's check out the past week's highlights at the PC gaming site:

By Randy Nelson I think the depth [of Spore] is different," she offered, saying that, "There may not be the depth of a Civilization IV level game in our Civilization Stage, but the idea that you can see all these different creations come in, and you can interact with them, plus everything else that's going...

In the News (02m22s), we talk about Soren Johnson discussing ModCast and mod mods in his blog, which quickly evolves into a discussion about Spore and its recently-released Creature Creator. In the Vault (08m16s), we have a segment with Dale that was cut from episode 12 for legal concerns...

By Brian Crecente The initially city is a walled footprint with a number of pads you can use to construct buildings on. The developers said this stage is a bit like Civilization lite. In this level population size unlocks technology. You gather Spice, build up your city, build forces and either seek to recruit...

Great to make these games more popular, but expect massive donwgrades and limitations comparing to PC versions. Can anyone even imagine 360 or Ps3 running Rome: Total War? Maybe if you make a cluster with 2 Ps3s and 2 360s.

Soren Johnson (svensk månne?) delade chefsdesignerposten under utvecklingen av Civilization III och var högsta hönset på del fyra men i dagarna stod det klart att han lämnar Firaxis Games efter sju år. Istället väntar jobb på numera EA-ägda Maxis för att arbeta på Spore, Will Wrights...

Firaxis Games’ Soren Johnson, a leader for the most recent Civilization games, has parted ways with the developer to join EA Maxis’ Spore team.

By Ross Miller Filed under: Simulations, Strategy Soren Johnson, lead designer for Civilization IV, has left his nearly seven-year gig at Firaxis to work on Will Wright's Spore. Johnson had previously worked with Spore publisher Electronic Arts when he interned there and programmed for the PlaySta...

Electronic Arts confirms Soren Johnson has left his 2K Games gig and joined the dev team of Will Wright's forthcoming evolutionary simulation game.

By Kim Phu The lead developer on Sid Meier's Civilization III & IV, Soren Johnson, has reportedly parted ways with Firaxis. He will be returning to Electronic Arts where he has worked before on the Knockout Kings series, but this time he will join the team at Spore. After checking Wikipedia for mo...

I wrap up the various games I saw at E3 this year.GameTalk: Who "won" and "lost" at E3?SporeTalk: Part one of my interview with Will Wright (Warning: This is pretty hard to understand, but the transcript is in this post as well).In-depth review of Guild Wars for the PC.RetroReview: Civilizat...