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New This Week: Games Where Your Money Used To Be

Spore
Publisher: EA
Developer: Maxis
Mac, PC, DS
On sale: September 7
Fucking A, it’s here. And by “it’s” I mean a merciful end to all the hype. Spore, the game that has been years in the flogging, rolls out this Sunday. Which, taking Spore creator Will Wright’s E3 speech, could very well be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Book of Genesis. In this case the game has a very real chance of living up to both the hype and possible blasphemy. The release also marks the first step in the battle of the “make games.” Round two commences with the release of LittleBigPlanet in October. You can get the jump on unleashing your new race of Korvaxes, Snorks or some Ron Jeremy-inspired race of walking penises by pre-downloading the software. Will Wright will flip the switch and bring it all to life on Sunday. Tiger Woods isn’t the only dude that walks on water around that company.
Pre-order your copy of Spore.

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Will Wright Dusts Off Old Comments Comparing The Sims To Herpes

Before taking the stage for his first-ever Comic-Con International keynote address, Spore creator Will Wright sat down to talk about video games. It had been a fairly long week for Wright, coming off E3 and delivering a presentation that compared the users of the Spore Creature Editor to 38% God, discussed his partnership with SETI and accused the chemistry sets of today for being too nerf. Out of context these kinds of elements sound more like a Dr. Evil monologue than one of the brighter minds in games business today.

Check out what the man behind SimCity and The Sims had to say about the popularity of his 100 million unit-selling franchise and his hopes for appeasing the hardcore crowd with his upcoming September 7 release, Spore, after the jump.
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Spore Shows Off New Screens, Hints At Sacrifice Of Meat To Wooden Gods

EA released some new screens of Will Wright’s long awaited magnum opus of all Sims. The accompanying press release doesn’t mention anything about offering up sacrifices to wooden totems with cuts of raw meat as the above pic suggests. But it does point out gameplay details like hunting and gathering, animal husbandry, and primitive warfare on creatures that don’t look like your creatures. In other words, fuck Gandhi in the earhole. The game ain’t called Pacifism. More screens after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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