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See The Sims Creator Will Wright Deliver A Dizzying, Fascinating Talk About Video Games And Education

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:00:44 EDT

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If you've ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his humorous, hypnotizing talks, you're probably going to want to settle in and watch this one too. If you've never had the good fortune to be assaulted by Will Wright's smarts, well, you're in luck. More »

Grab The Darkspore Beta Through Steam Now

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:40:00 EDT

Steam makes it easy to get into the beta program for Maxis' Spore spin-off Darkspore. Just head to the Steam web site and install. Darkspore was recently delayed until the end of April. More »

Darkspore Splices Fresh DNA Into Online Multiplayer

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST

Spore is an amazing creative experience diluted by a broad gameplay focus. Darkspore has one focus: Building a better killing machine. I took my monster squad to task in story mode and player-versus-player combat and lived to tell the tale. More »

A Look At Darkspore's Cooperative Multiplayer

Brian Crecente — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:00:00 EST

Electronic Arts is giving us an advanced look at how cooperative play is going to work in upcoming action role-playing game Darkspore. More »

I Played Darkspore And I Loved It

Brian Crecente — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:00:00 EDT

Darkspore is a bit like classic action title Diablo, with a twist: Instead of concentrating on leveling up a single character, you're working to level up a team of heroes, three of which you bring on every mission. More »

The Darker, More Dramatic Side Of Spore

Mike Fahey — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EDT

Here's the reveal trailer for Darkspore, the intense, fast-paced action role-playing game set in the colorful, friendly Spore universe. More »

First Look At Darkspore, EA's New Sci-fi, Spore-based RPG

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:20:00 EDT

The creators of Spore are going to the dark side with an all-new "fast-paced and intense" sci-fi action-role-playing game known as Darkspore, coming to the Mac and PC next year. More »

Will Wright Tells Morgan Freeman About Gods & Sims

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:30:00 EDT

Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" show on the Science Channel had an interesting guest a few weeks back: Sims creator Will Wright, who was there to talk about video game games, and gods. More »

Comic Con Teases New Spore Game

Owen Good — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EDT

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The programming schedule for San Diego Comic Con reveals a "a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore." Rumors and images floating around the Spore forums say the game will be called Darkspore. More »

The Disappearance Of SimCity

Sam Shahrani — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:00 EDT

What ever happened to the once-mighty SimCity franchise? More »

Sims Creator Working On TV Show

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:30:00 EDT

Will Wright, creator of The Sims and SimCity, hasn't worked on a video game since 2008's Spore. What's he been keeping busy with in the meantime? How about making a TV show. More »

Barbie Doll Destroyer Will Wright Visits Toy Fair, Hints Toy Plans

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:00:22 EST

Will Wright was on a recon mission on Tuesday in New York City. On a snowy day on Manhattan's West Side, one of history's top game developers was at his first Toy Fair, his wheels turning. More »

The Once and Future Sim

Brian Crecente — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST

One hundred million copies sold, 36 magazine covers and 100 game critic awards: The Sims franchise continues to thrive ten years after its launch, basking in the uncommon flattery of having no real competition. More »

Would You Be A Pepper For EA DLC?

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:40:00 EST

Starting this week, specially marked 20 ounce bottles of Dr Pepper will contain codes good towards exclusive downloadable content for popular EA games, including The Sims 3, Spore, and Mass Effect 2. More »

Spore: Creatures Preview: The Next Step

AJ Glasser — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:20:00 EST

For those of you that longed to take your Spore: Origins creature onto dry land for the next step in the evolutionary process, this iPhone game is for you. More »

EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project

Owen Good — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:40:00 EDT

Electronic Arts and Twentieth Century Fox have reached a deal to produce a movie based on Spore, with the director of the animated film "Ice Age" assigned to the project, Variety reports. More »

Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:40:00 EDT

Electronic Arts' recent attempt to "focus" Spore developer Maxis—which was a nicer way of saying some people got laid off—includes one of its more rant-ready folks, Chris Hecker, a Technology Fellow at the company. Remember him? More »

See The GLAAD On Games Panel For Yourself

AJ Glasser — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:20:00 EDT

If your Kotaku comment made it into the talking points of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation panel a couple of weeks ago, this video immortalizes your screen name. More »

GLAAD Panel: Pearls of Wisdom And Points Of Discussion

AJ Glasser — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:40:00 EDT

I've got a re-cap of last Saturday's Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation right here, but if you're looking for quick quotes and interesting issues to rehash, here are a few gems. More »

Your Comments Fuel Gay Gaming Conference

AJ Glasser — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:40:00 EDT

Physically, you may not have been at EA Redwood Shores this weekend. But if you commented on to Justin Cole's op-ed column to Kotaku, you were there in spirit. More »

When Robot Chicken And Spore Collide

Mike Fahey — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:20:00 EDT

Witness the Robot Chicken creative team using the Spore Galactic Adventures editor to create their own fanciful tales of poo-flinging. More »

Maybe One Day Everyone's Spore Creatures Will Look This Good

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:30:00 EDT

Maxis senior art director Ocean Quigley has shown us the future. A future where Spore creations are not bulbous, simple game characters, but realistic-looking creatures. More »

Robot Chicken + Spore = New Series About Giant Robots [Update]

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:30:00 EDT

EA Maxis and the creators of Robot Chicken are teasing a new joint venture in this clip, showing that the comedy boys are using Spore to design...something. More »

There Are Now Over 100,000,000 Spore Creatures

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:30:00 EDT

Earlier this week, EA's life creator Spore passed a hefty milestone, with the game's Sporepedia registering its one hundred millionth creation. More »

Will Wright: Why Spore Wasn't Released On 360, PS3

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

For such a big game, you'd have thought Spore would release on every platform under the sun. But it didn't. Just PC, Mac, DS and iPhone. Here, Will Wright explains why. More »

Spore Dev Kicks Off University Lecture Tour

Brian Crecente — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Spore lead designer Stone Librande is touring the nation's top game design college programs to talk about Designing Playfully, Electronic Arts announced today. More »

Preview: Spore Galactic Adventures – The Cake Is a Portal

AJ Glasser — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:20:00 EDT

Spore's first expansion pack focuses almost entirely on the space exploration segment of the game, adding a layer of adventure gaming to spice space up. More »

How Fighting Robots Helped Wright Quit EA

Brian Crecente — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:00:00 EDT

Will Wright may be leaving Maxis and Electronic Arts, but that doesn't mean he's leaving gaming. In fact some of his biggest ideas are for future games, he told us today. More »

Will Wright Leaves EA, Does Something Stupid

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:10:00 EDT

The designer behind The Sims and Spore has left Electronic Arts, the publisher announced today, starting a new "think tank" known as Stupid Fun Club, a venture that has EA's backing. More »

Maria Montessori: The 138-Year-Old Inspiration Behind Spore

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:00:00 EDT

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GDC Panel: Fulfilling the Massively-Single Player Promise - How'd We Do?

AJ Glasser — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Forget Metacritic scores – the real test of Spore's popularity is how many people show up to their talk when Suda 51 is on a panel across the hall at the same time. More »

EA Offers Up More Details On Spore Hero

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:00:29 EDT

Electronic Arts has plenty of Spore planned for 2009, as it revealed in January. Two Spore Hero games, one for the Nintendo DS, the other for the Wii have been under wraps until now. More »

Happy Darwin Day From Spore

Brian Crecente — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

Happy Darwin Day! Two hundred years ago evolutionary biologist Charles Dawrin was born. Today Maxis points out that his theories are being put to good use in Spore. More »

Spore Galactic Adventures: Behind the Scenes

Brian Crecente — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST

Spore was an interesting experiment, one that didn't totally live up to the absurdly high expectations, but that I still enjoyed. More »

Spore Honcho: We Toats Pwn LBP for User Content

Owen Good — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST

It was recently suggested to Maxis producer Morgan Roarty that LittleBigPlanet has horned in, maybe even stolen the user-created content crown away from Spore. Pish-tosh, said Roarty. More »

Three Things That Stand Out About the Spore Expansion

AJ Glasser — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST

EA announced a bunch of new stuff at last night's semi-swank reveal event – but the main draw was Galactic Adventures, the first real Spore expansion. More »

Four New Spore Titles Unveiled for DS, Wii, PC

AJ Glasser — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:30:00 EST

EA has officially announced several new titles, two for the DS and one for the Wii, and an expansion to the Spore lineup that will launch this year. More »

Miyamoto, Spore Win Jim Henson Awards

Brian Crecente — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST

Video gaming makes up half of the list of this year's Jim Henson Honors, with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and PC game Spore both landing awards. More »

AJ’s Datebook: Battlestations, Street Fighter, Spore & D3

AJ Glasser — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:20:07 EST

Now that the holiday rush has officially died down, it’s time to get back to business – the business of game showcases. More »

First Spore Expansion, "Galactic Adventures" Due In Spring

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:30:36 EST

Super sim Spore will get its first expansion pack in the form of Galactic Adventures this Spring, according to an invite from Electronic Arts. And, no, the Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack doesn't count! More »