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more about #maxis NINTENDO_ZEALOT: "Gay Mafia"? lol more » TheOmnitron: I continually feel that this subject is being overblown. As long as you have 13 year olds playing competitive games online you are going to have every... more » diagorus: When its released on DVD/BluRay will I be able to play it on more than one system? more » DarkWolf7: So.... the big question is, how can you go about making a 120 minute movie about a single cell organism that evolves into a space-traveling penis mons... more » Tanneseph: I swear, for every 100 videogame movie deals I hear made, only 1 ever hits the screen. And that one is really awful. I wonder why I bother to read m... more » Twik63: maybe a documentary on the game itself? idk how a real movie could possibly work. more » Gruntybreath: Slated for release in 2026... more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Hooray! Talking penis monsters! more » Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh: Rosie O'Donnell in the lead role according to that screenshot. more » glardchia: Things to do: 1. Create game based on evolution - CHECK 2. Create movie based on that game - CHECK 3. Piss off radical creationists - IN PROGRESS more » Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.: The man screwed up Spore, a game that Maxis really needed to do well and develop the type of community around it that Sims had and he shat all over a ... more » DaveKap: Hecker announced on his personal site his follow up project, an indie game called SpyParty, which he describes as "a very different multiplayer espion... more » anduin1: He deserves it, he was complicit in what happened to spore, possibly one of the most overhyped games in HISTORY only behind Daikatana. He deserves to ... more » Lezard: Well, this is one guy that won't be getting a job at Nintendo any time soon. I feel sorry for him for losing his job, but he probably burned a few br... more » Yetanotheruninspiredscreename: Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hey people want to know who dumbed down spore and got rid of all the cool stuff Will was talking about in earlier video... more » RockyRan: Aw, I was expecting a long tirade on how EA is "a piece of shit" now that he was laid off. He has disappointed :( more » MasterOmega: I can sum up everybody that has gotten laid off in the last year in the game industry...they actually know what the F**k they are doing and get paid a... more » someone_else: sigh.. Maxis a previosly great dev, now doing sod all, Back in the day the SIM city franchise was so good, it truely saddens me that the Sims sells be... more » Dayvan Cowboy: I'm curious exactly which team had the layoffs... I recall browsing jobs on Gamasutra a few months ago and there was a position for a Lead Designer ... more » Taggart6 wishes you happy holidays!!!: I wonder if the lackluster sales of spore were in part due to the draconian protection. Personally I thought the game was okay but the DRM prevented ... more » -
#spore
EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
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
Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
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 » -
#disturbance
Maxis Hit With Job Cuts, EA Confirms
Word from Electronic Arts today is that Maxis, the studio behind The Sims and Spore, suffered layoffs today. No word on how many people were affected. EA described the cuts as an attempt to "focus" the studio. More » -
#thesims
Actually, The Sims 3 Was The Biggest-Selling Game In June
While there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the poor performance of June's console games, on PC, things were looking a little healthier, with EA's The Sims 3 emerging as the month's biggest-selling game on any platform. More » -
#glaad
Your Comments Fuel Gay Gaming Conference
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 » -
#thesims
Pirated Copies Of Sims 3 Are A "Demo Program"
Prior to the retail release of The Sims 3, the game leaked onto popular torrent sites. Hundreds of thousands of people then illegally downloaded the game. Which you'd think would make publishers EA really cranky. More » -
#review
The Sims 3 Review: Delayed Gratification
After a more than three month delay—and more than four years on from the release of The Sims 2—The Sims 3 is finally here. So let's get down to reviewing it.
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#clips
When Robot Chicken And Spore Collide
Witness the Robot Chicken creative team using the Spore Galactic Adventures editor to create their own fanciful tales of poo-flinging. More » -
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#downloadables
Robot Chicken Invades Spore Galactic Adventures
The secret behind the mysterious Spore WTF website is revealed, as Maxis announces day one downloadable content for the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion from the deranged minds behind Robot Chicken. More » -
#humor
30 Rock Offers Parenting Tips From The Sims
30 Rock is a fantastic television show. But 30 Rock's Liz Lemon is a developmentally stunted mess of a person, in some respects. Take, for example, her knowledge of child-rearing, as learned from The Sims. More » -
#art
Maybe One Day Everyone's Spore Creatures Will Look This Good
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 » -
#clips
Robot Chicken + Spore = New Series About Giant Robots [Update]
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 » -
#clips
Spore: Galactic Adventures Trailer
While we're appreciative of the new weapons, how different can "protecting the oracle" and "defending the priest" really be? More » -
#pc
There Are Now Over 100,000,000 Spore Creatures
Earlier this week, EA's life creator Spore passed a hefty milestone, with the game's Sporepedia registering its one hundred millionth creation. More » -
#screens
The Sims 3 Screenshots
You should be keeping tabs on The Sims 3, if only because it'll be cluttering up the PC sales charts for the next five years once it's released this June. More » -
#wellplayed
Spore Creator Wants to Make Toys Fun Again
Will Wright, the man who launched a million sims, is broadening his horizons.
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#screens
Oh, Captain, My Captain - New Spore Screens
Spore: Galactic Adventures is introducing a lot of new stuff – planet editor, new segment of space exploration, etc. – but a nifty new thing we haven't seen a lot is the effects tool. More » -
#preview
Preview: Spore Galactic Adventures – The Cake Is a Portal
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 » -
#clips
Oh Captain My Spore Space Captain
What does it take for your creature to become a space captain in Spore: Galactic Adventures? A dynamic trailer with dramatic voice overs, that's what. More » -
#thesims3
This Valentine's Day, Say It With Sims
It wouldn't be Valentine's Day without half a dozen games celebrating the number two Hallmark holiday of the year. The Sims 3 jumps on the bandwagon with two new screens of sweet, sweet love. More »
