Spore finally on Steam, SecureROM free!

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Will Wright fans rejoice! If you’ve been waiting to buy the long awaited ‘life, the universe, and everything’ simulator because of EA’s draconian DRM that limits the players to only three installs, your wait is now over.  Spore, along with other ‘hit’ EA titles have been released on Valve’s ever-growing Steam platform.   The [...]

The Sims 3 TEASER SITE UP!

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Earlier this week, EA posted a teaser site for the next installment (not expansion mind you) of the highly addictive, ridiculously high selling Will Wright creation, The Sims. No real news on it right now, only that news IS coming on the 19th.
However, if you want more info sooner than that, you should [...]

An interesting critique of Will Wright and his games.

Reid Parham, an Oregon State University student pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design has written a very interesting critique of Will Wright on his blog, Kerplow.com. It’s nothing controversial really, it’s not like he’s bashing the guy or anything like that. I just found it to be a really well written dissertation on [...]

GDC 2008 Day 4, or My brush with greatness.

Today was freaking awesome.
And loooong.
But don’t worry though, as per advice from one of my colleagues, I will keep this [fairly] brief.

I started the day off with the Ray Kurtzweil’s Keynote, The Next 20 Years of Gaming. It was very fascinating, although really he was talked about the future of technology in general and not [...]

HOLY CRAP! SPORE HAS RELEASE DATE!!

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After literally years of delays, Will Wright’s most ambitious project yet, the highly anticipated and extremely hyped “life, the universe, and everything” simulation Spore finally has a release date!
According to an annoucement earlier this week, we can expect to start creating our own custom universes come September 7th. This is for all planned platforms [...]