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New Class Action attempts to shut down DRM forever
Story at GameCyte.
Filed in California’s Northern District Court by attorneys from the offices of Finkelstein Thompson, the body of the lawsuit looks much the same as the three submitted by Thomas, Eldridge and Cortez earlier this year. In much the same way, it calls out SecuROM for secretly installing itself on the computers of unwitting Spore Creature Creator users; in much the same way, it talks about SecuROM as a pest that interferes with other software and hardware, and one that can n...
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News Roundup: No Dedicated Servers for Call fo Duty Modern Warfare 2 gives your Spirit Rage
Original at GamingNexus
• Fri, Nov 6
No dedicated servers for Rage eitherExperience Nintendo Tour: The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks Valcon Games gives the DS a keyboard [musical that is-ed.]Deal or No Deal invades your SMS planAnother win for the US with previously Japan exclusive Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Pla...
EA's Spore Franchise Expands to Facebook
Original at The Mac Observer
• Thu, Nov 5
Similar to the main Spore game, Spore Islands has players earn and spend DNA points to improve their creatures in various ways. Global and friends-only ... Spore Islands launches on Facebook as EA tries social games expansion VentureBeat
Kmart - Black Friday deals
Original at Go Nintendo
• Tue, Nov 3
By RawmeatCowboy Nintendo Wii & DS Link Nintendo Wii & DS * DSi handheld - $169.99 (Free $25 Nintendo Gaming Coupon) Friday Doorbuster * DS handheld - $129.99 (Free $25 Nintendo Gaming Coupon) Saturday Doorbuster * Need for Speed: Nitro (Wii) - $29.99 (Save $20) Friday Doorbuster * Spore [...]
Deza’s Guides – Spore Graphics
Original at Sporedum
• Tue, Nov 3
By Deza Hi there people, its Deza here to tell you how to get the most out of your spore game graphics wise. This guide is intended for people who have medium to good computers, and a little bit of time to get everything working. I’ll start of by saying that you need to make sure your graphics [...] Related po...
Spore Hero Arena - review
Original at Go Nintendo
• Mon, Nov 2
By RawmeatCowboy Spore Hero Arena - Full review here A portion of a GamesRadar review… You’ll love * Create your own creatures * Goofy, cartoony charm * Decent selection of minigames You’ll hate * Small screen hampers visual impact * Whole game is rather dull * D-pad controls [...]
Spore Hero Arena - review
Original at Go Nintendo
• Mon, Nov 2
By RawmeatCowboy Full review here A portion of a C3 review… The Spore concept is a difficult one to transfer well to weaker hardware, but thankfully EA have not tried to shoehorn in anything unnecessary to a good gaming experience. Sadly, what is here, in regards to fighting and journeying, doesn’t hold up i...
Spore Creature Creator builder creates iPhone game about destroying
Original at Joystiq
• Thu, Oct 29
By Randy Nelson Chaim Gingold spent the past few years creating ways to create things in Spore, most notably the game's Creature Creator. Now the former Maxis design lead has decided to take a different path, making an iPhone game that's all about destroying things ... as a creature. Titled Earth Dragon, Ging...
How About A Spore Fighting Game? [Fighting Games]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Oct 20
By Stephen Totilo This is where I saw the potential. I asked the Spore Hero producer if the size of my creature affected his ability to get hit in a fight. Maybe a smaller creature would have a smaller hit box and a larger one So the reality might not be coming, but Spore Hero, at least, suggest what the birth of a Spo...
1up reviews, previews
Original at Go Nintendo
• Mon, Oct 19
By RawmeatCowboy A collection of 1up reviews, and preview… Band Hero - Wii/DS preview Spore Hero Arena Space Invaders Extreme 2 - review A collection of 1up reviews, and preview… Band Hero - Wii/DS preview Spore Hero Arena Space Invaders Extreme 2 - review
Spore Hero Review
Original at 1up.com
• Wed, Oct 14
By Kris Pigna Unlike the universe-spanning PC simulation it's spun off from, Spore Hero is a disappointingly generic third-person platformer with some very light "Metroidvania" influences. You start the game with a barely evolved creature that crash lands on an unfamiliar planet, and you then exp...
Spore Creature Creator 2-D set free in your browser
Original at Joystiq
• Thu, Sep 17
By Randy Nelson Now here's some ... creative marketing. Maxis has launched a Flash-based browser version of the Spore Creature Creator that mimics the customization found in the retail game fairly closely. Only, y'know, in 2D. All 250 parts found in the 3D creator are available and there's even the option to i...
Spore Patch: 1.5/1.5.1 for mac
Original at Sporedum
• Thu, Sep 10
Well the Spore Patch 1.5/1.5.1 has finally been released for the mac! If you can’t remember what was in the last patch, here are the details below: Fixed issues: Object orientation near water or lava can appear incorrectly when Playing or Testing an Adventure. Fixes a crash in the Building Cre...
ESRB updates - Spore Creature Keeper coming to DS
Original at Go Nintendo
• Sun, Aug 30
By RawmeatCowboy Balloon Pop (DS) – E Rapala We Fish (Wii) – E Mouse House (Wii) – E Aqua Panic! (DS) – E Chaotic: Shadow Warriors (Wii/DS) – E10+ Chronos Twins DX (Wii) – E10+ R-TYPE (Wii) – E Mountain Sports (Wii) – E Cybernoid (Wii) – E CSI: Deadly Intent (Wii) – M DRiiFT Mania (Wii) – E
Spore Hero/Spore Hero Arena - new trailers, screensOriginal at Go Nintendo
• Mon, Aug 17
By RawmeatCowboy Spore Hero delivers the unparalleled creative freedom of Spore in an action-adventure game created exclusively for the Wii. Set in a rich and vibrant 3D world, Spore Hero empowers the player to become the hero as they embark on an epic quest to save their creature’s home planet from destru...
Patch: Ocean Quigley: You can export spore creatures to Maya
Original at Sporedum
• Thu, Jul 23
By ballightning With the newest Spore Patch, it is now possible to export your spore creatures to Maya, Blender, 3dM With the newest Spore Patch, it is now possible to export your spore creatures to Maya, Blender, 3dM
Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena Q & A
Original at LadyMpire
• Tue, Jul 21
By LadyM Spore Hero Q: Is the game a sandbox like the PC game or does it have a definite ending and goal? – LadyM (Gaming Steve) Spore Hero Arena Q: Is the game a sandbox like the PC game or does it have a definite ending and goal? – LadyM (Gaming Steve)
Spore: Galactic Adventures Review
Original at 1up.com
• Wed, Jun 24
By Justin Haywald When Will Wright first talked about his plans for Spore, he set expectations so high that no game could've possibly lived up to the hype. Spore was a good game, but instead of doing one or two things really well, it was more like several decent games tossed together. Spore's recent expansion,...
Opinion: ‘Spore: Galactic Adventures’ Final Look
Original at multiplayerblog.mtv.com
• Tue, Jun 23
By MTV Video Games “Spore Galactic Adventures,” the first major gameplay expansion, is an effort to change that. “Spore” has an endless late-game; players who are able to reach the final Space Stage with their created species see the galaxy open up before them into thousands – perhaps more – of discrete sta...
Spore Patch 4 (v 1.04) available now
Original at Sporedum
• Tue, Jun 23
By ballightning Maxis has a new patch for Spore users, fresh off the presses. But before you go on and download it, Maxis has a new patch for Spore users, fresh off the presses. But before you go on and download it,
How To: Spore Creature Tutorial Part 2Original at YouTube
• Wed, Jun 10
• 2 related articles
By rss@youtube.com (SilverMetallix) Author: SilverMetallix Keywords: spore creature tutorial games Added: June 10, 2009
How To: Spore MonsterOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, May 20
• 2 related articles
By rss@youtube.com (TheNobody89) Author: TheNobody89 Keywords: Spore Maxis Electronic Arts Tutorial Creature Creator EA Demo Labor Animation Added: May 20, 2009
Spore how to make things floatOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Apr 16
By rss@youtube.com (yaykittyz) Author: yaykittyz Keywords: spore creature creator float Added: April 16, 2009
Preview: Spore Galactic Adventures – The Cake Is a Portal [Preview]
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Apr 9
By AJ Glasser Oh well. Here goes… What is it? Spore Galactic adventures is an expansion pack for Spore that lets you extend the space exploration segment to actual adventure gaming – kind of like the creature phase, only now you have guns and armor and stuff.
Opinion: Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind Spore [Critique]
Original at Kotaku
• Mon, Mar 23
And toys and play, Wright says, go hand-in-hand. If you step way back and look at Spore as a whole it's meant to show a grand arch, the story of life," her said. "The Sims is like the story of life on Earth, Spore is life with a capital L." Goodwin says Spore "amplifies the imagination."
How To: Spore: Shadow the Hedgehog Tutorial Part 1Original at YouTube
• Thu, Mar 12
By rss@youtube.com (lanmanamel) Author: lanmanamel Keywords: spore sonic hedgehog shadow tails knuckles sega creature creator Added: March 12, 2009
How To: Spore: Rolling Limb TutorialOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 25
By rss@youtube.com (JP6267) Author: JP6267 Keywords: Spore JP6039 JP6267 tutorial floating limb glitch fun easy creature Duskendore Added: February 25, 2009
Spore - How to build a Creepy CreatureOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 3
By rss@youtube.com (gaggi123) What you can reach with the game Spore Author: gaggi123 Keywords: Spore Will Wright Game spiel creature creepy horror funny how to monster Added: February 3, 2009
They want a game? Let THEM make it: Spore Galactic Adventure
Original at http
• Sat, Jan 31
By srikalanna Spore. So full of promise. Such a disappointment to so many. What was odd about it was that the tech which players were looking forward to so eagerly was all there, and worked pretty well: the creature editor, the random worlds, and especially the ultra-long zoom from creature to planet to sol...
Opinion: E3 Trailer - SporeOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Jan 26
By rss@youtube.com (GamezChannel) Spore E3 Trailer Spore is a multi-genre massive single-player online metaverse video game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and...
How To: Spore Creature Creator VideoOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Jan 10
• 2 related articles
By rss@youtube.com (profspore) This video was created using the Spore Creature Creator. Author: profspore Keywords: creature spore Added: January 10, 2009
How To: One of my recent Spore creatures.Original at YouTube
• Wed, Dec 31
By rss@youtube.com (yourself458) I was messing around and made this and thought it looked cool with the skin glitching out. Author: yourself458 Keywords: Spore creepy arch cute and yourself458 cool wierd dark evil glitch glitches tutorial Added: December 31, 2008
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars: Hardcore Returns to the Wii [Review]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Dec 30
By Brian Crecente Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is one of the better Wii titles of the year. Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars was developed by Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock. Released on December 2 for the Wii, retails for $49.99. Played through the entire campaign.
New Spore patch includes new Creature Limbs!
Original at Space Oddity's Spore
• Thu, Nov 13
By SpaceOddity Great news from Maxis today: a new patch for Spore in underway and this one will also contain 12 new arms and 12 new legs! The limbs show distinct bony structures, that should give rise to new range of creations. Here is an impression of the limbs on creatures made using the Creepy & [...]
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Will Wright on Science vs Cute
Original at spore
• Wed, Nov 5
By ballightning To take a quick tangent let me use the creature design vs. performance as an example. We had competing issues to face. First, we wanted the creature’s design to impact its in-game performance. Second, we wanted the economics of the editor to be simple and understandable and connected to performance. Third, we wanted a high amount of aesthetic diversity. We didn’t want there to be one ultimate design direction that the simulator was forcing all the creatures into. In other words if to be fast you had to have long legs that would have met the first goal, conflicted with the third goal and made the second much more complex. Will Wright [read the full post]
Opinion: Gaming community turning against Electronic Arts over bundled DRM, malware
Original at Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog
• Sat, Oct 25
By Andrew(noreply@blogger.com) That's a question many gaming enthusiasts have been asking recently following the release of the long-awaited EA title Spore, a game designed by Will Wright (the creator of SimCity) and Maxis (the studio Wright founded, now owned by EA).
Download: Spore v1.02 Patch
Original at Big Download
• Fri, Oct 17
• 6 related articles
By Steven Wong Download Spore v1.02 Patch (96 MB) Check out all Spore downloads Gallery: Spore Big Download has the latest Spore information for you including downloads of the free Spore Creature Creator demo as well as a gallery of Spore billboard ads.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Spore game simulates life - but is it science?
Original at New Scientist
• Fri, Oct 17
By Tom(noreply@blogger.com) Spore is the hotly anticipated latest creation of Will Wright, creator of SimCity and The Sims, and was originally titled "Sim Everything". On the other hand, creatures don't evolve by random mutation and natural selection, they are built by a player - with the aid of the creature creator...
Podcast: YouTube Gaming Interview
Original at GamingNexus
• Thu, Oct 16
NEWS - A few weeks ago I had the chance to chat with Nikoli Chandhok and Chris Dale from YouTube about how YouTube is integration with games such as Spore and PixelJunk Eden. We covered a wide variety of topics including how the system works, how the game companies are monetizing this integr...
TD Gaming Podcast 90: Riddled With Fragmented PatchesOriginal at Game Stooge
• Wed, Oct 1
By Derrick Schommer Click here to listen, or visit the site. This week’s Gaming Podcast, we’re doing a review of Rock Band 2 and it’s drum kit. We are also digging into some juicy news on: Fable II launches with no on-line co-op mode EA slapped with class action law suit over Spore DRM Warhammer Online hits 500K sub...
Opinion: Law of the Game on Joystiq: Rare footage of the DRM in its natural habitat
Original at Joystiq
• Fri, Sep 19
By Mark Methenitis Digital Rights Management (or "DRM" for short) is back in the news in a big way with the recent Spore fiasco. DRM, much like a Spore creature, is a quirky animal, with legs of technology, a torso of law, and arms of business, but it doesn't always have a head on its shoulders. But like so many othe...
Spore 1.01 Patch
Original at Nu!Netherlands News Weblog
• Fri, Sep 19
• 3 related articles
By nunetherlands Electronic Arts has released a patch (download) for Spore, updating the latest life-sim/strategy game developed by EA Maxis to version 1.01. This patch fixes some bugs that have been reported and to respond to feedback from the community about tuning and stability. There is a cool cheat th...
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Spore Updates: PatchOriginal at LadyMpire
• Sun, Aug 31
• 25 related articles
By LadyM Creature Creator: A patch has been released for the Spore Creature Creator. You can directly download the patch without using EADM, or get the patch by logging into the Spore Creature Creator (you must have EADM installed). This is a PC only patch. Mac users should get one by next week. Two new...
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EA and Maxis Announce That Spore Has Gone Gold
Original at TechWhack
• Thu, Aug 14
By Satan Long-Anticipated Game from Gaming Luminary, Will Wright, is Complete and in Production; Hits Store Shelves September 7 For all the latest Spore news, screens, videos community content, and to try out the trial version of the hugely popular Spore Creature Creator, visit www.spore.com.
Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 69 - 02.15.2008
Original at Gaming Steve
• Fri, Feb 15
After years of waiting, dreaming, speculating, hoping, wishing, fantasizing, and talking about Spore, we finally get ... a release date! Sure it's still seven months away, but now we all have something to look forward to for the next seven months!
Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 52 - 05.11.2006
Original at Gaming Steve
• Thu, May 11
Episode 52 Program E3 2006 Day 2 RecapWhat's it like to build a creature in Spore? And is Will Wright actually giving the Spore demostration?John and I give our impressions of Viva Pinata, Crackdown, Gears of War, Two Human, and Mass Effect for the Xbox 360.Next John and I switch gears and gi...
Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 45 - 03.23.2006
Original at Gaming Steve
• Thu, Mar 23
Episode 45 Program Game Developers Conference Day 4 RecapJohn and I discuss Spore talk number one: "Advanced Prototyping" with Chaim Gingold and Chris Hecker.We discuss the Nintendo keynote speech.Will Wright talks, but does he say anything?John gives us a rundown of the expo floor.A re...
Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 30 - 12.10.2005
Original at Gaming Steve
• Sat, Dec 10
I'm back from vacation with a monster episode and a little bit of everything. Exclusive Spore design artwork (with more to come!), I take answer your questions, I review the 360 and more! Add the Gaming Steve Podcast feed to your RSS aggregator. Vote for Gaming Steve on Podcast Alley.
Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 18 - 07.28.2005
Original at Gaming Steve
• Thu, Jul 28
Hot Coffee news until your head explodes!Every 30 seconds Xbox Live grows by one.World of Warcraft just keeps getting bigger and bigger.Microsoft confirms worldwide Xbox 360 launch.Advertising to invade all video games all the time.Hot Coffee Part 2 -- The Sims 2.GameTalk: Hot Coffee is ov...
Podcast: Gaming Steve Episode 5 - 03.24.2005
Original at Gaming Steve
• Thu, Mar 24
The future of the web site.A bit of Spore stuff.The PSP launch.Why are Xboxes catching on fire?EA gets pounded.GameTalk: Should game designers unionize?Quicktake on the new God of War for PS2.In-depth review of World of Warcraft for the PC.“Name That Game!” contest winners from last week, a n...