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UK: Top 20 PC Games Chart ending December 19, 2009
Dec 21st
Another week, another ass-beating from SEGA’s Football Manager 2010. Yet The Sims 3 still hangs on strong…Football Manager will eventually loose its spot and soon TS3 will be top dog once again!
Source: Chart-Track
GameSpot’s Best of 2009 Videogame Awards
Dec 19th
Thanks to a post over at SimOperations, we were informed that GameSpot is kicking off their voting for the Best Videogames of 2009. A number of EA games has made their way onto the list:
- The Sims 3 for Best Strategy Game
- MySims Racing for Best Driving Game
- The Sims 3 for Best PC Game
- The Sims 3 for Game of the Year
- The Sims 3 for Best Original Music
- The Sims 3 for Most Improved Sequel
- The Sims 3 World Adventures for Best Downloadable Content/Expansion
- Spore Galactic Adventures for Best Downloadable Content/Expansion
Personally, I voted for Spore Galactic Adventures – because I love Maxis. They love you too. So vote for them. Right now. Do it.
Spore Holiday Fruitcake by MaxisKate
Dec 18th
Very creepy, in a good way! I can’t imagine eating this myself but I have to say MaxisKate did a fantastic job! She took the time to mold her fruitcake into a creature for Maxis’ Christmas Party!
Spore Galactic Adventures and The Digital Media and Learning Competiton
Dec 18th
Want to have the chance at winning anywhere from $5,000 – $50,000 dollars? There is a huge contest taking place that where you can use Spore Galactic Adventure to “create engaging game play experiences and incorporate and leverage principles of science, technology, engineering and math for learning.”
Game Changers awards, which range from $5,000-$50,000, are for creative levels designed with either LittleBigPlanet or Spore Galactic Adventures that offer young people engaging game play experiences and that incorporate and leverage principles of science, technology, engineering and math for learning.
“Video games from the Spore franchise innately embody the themes of learning, exploration and creation of scientific and educational curriculum,” said Lucy Bradshaw, Vice President and General Manager of Maxis. “Thousands of Spore players have already re-created stunning gameplay around real science such as protein synthesis and dinosaurs using the Adventure Creator Tool within Spore Galactic Adventures. We look forward to offering this Adventure Tool in the Game Changer competition to provide an entirely new group of young minds with a new way to embrace science and education, but through a familiar avenue like video games.”
Kotaku – Spore Creatures (iPhone) early impressions
Dec 17th
If evolution is essentially small changes made over time to a core being, then I supposed Creatures fits the bill. However, I can’t help but feel like the added features that make Creatures more like a video game than Origins might be some kind of step backward for people who liked the aimless roaming in Origins.
I’m eagerly looking forward to playing Spore Creatures as I loved Spore Origins to death. Sure, around level 19 it whooped my butt, but still it was a fantastic game.
Five Hens: Spore Hero reviewed from a parents perspective
Dec 17th
If you’re a parent and you’re deciding on getting Spore Hero as a last minute Christmas gift, then check out the following review from Five Hens:
There is some educational value to Spore Hero. First and foremost is reading and reading comprehension. Although the characters in Spore Hero do speak, it’s not a language that you’d recognize. The silly language is actually quite funny sounding, but it also means that every character interaction in Spore Hero is text-based and that means your kiddos will have to read and retain what they’ve read to understand and solve their quests and challenges.
Slide2Play – Spore Creatures video demonstration
Dec 17th
With at least four hours of gameplay, along with multiple save slots so that you can try out different combinations of creature parts, Spore Creatures seems to us like a well-intentioned follow-up. If you enjoyed the first Spore game for iPhone, this one doesn’t seem to be straying too far from what people liked, but adds a lot more puzzle-solving and graphical polish. Look for Spore Creatures in the App Store soon.
Spore Creatures factsheet from EAmobile
Dec 17th
Product Description
SPORE Creatures picks up right where SPORE Origins left off. Your Spore has evolved to a land based creature faced with a world of unique environments to explore. Through exploration your creature encounters predators to befriend or attack, obstacles and hazards to overcome, and new parts to add to creature inside the Creature Creator as it climbs the evolution ladder to become the top of the food chain and discover other species like itself.
Key Features
- Explore 20 fun and challenging levels within 4 unique Land Zones
- Tilt, turn and twist your way through fun and challenging environments with your iPhone’s motion-sensing accelerometer
- Choose how you evolve by befriending or attacking unique creatures
- Overcome epic bosses to earn an epic skill
- Solve environment puzzles and obstacles as you climb the evolutionary ladder
- Max out your abilities (Offense, Defense, Movement, Perception, and Social) to gain super skills
- Unlock and collect creature parts to evolve your creature
- Collect DNA to evolve and obtain new evolutionary skills
- Customize your creature equipping parts that tailor to your specific gameplay style
- (Offense, Defense, Movement, Perception, and Social abilities).
- Import your favorite pictures to skin your creature.
- Pinch, pull, and poke your creation in the Creature Editor, customizing the texture, shape and body parts to fit the way you play.
- Play your favorite music as your roam new environments
Product Specifications
Publisher: Electronic Arts Inc.
Ship Date: TBD
Genre: Sim & Strategy©2009 Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved. All Trademarks are the Property of their respective owners.
12/17/09 – Spore Creatures demonstration video from Touch Arcade
Dec 17th
Touch Arcade has uploaded a demonstration video of Spore Creatures for the iPhone. Not too shabby, you can tell it shares much of its similarities with it’s predecessor, Spore Origins.
12/17/09 – 3 new screens of Spore Creatures (iPhone)
Dec 17th
Spore Creatures, the sequel to Spore Origins will soon make its appearance on the iPhone either in January or February of next year. The game takes place right after Origin with your creature stepping forth onto land allowing you to continue evolution. Jeff Scott from 148 Apps was invited to EA to check out the status of the game and brings back his report:
More creature customization options. Lots more. I’ve been told there are well over a billion different possibilities from the dozens of creature parts, colors, and abilities that you can add.
Included in the game itself are 4 different and distinct game play zones. Each zone has 5 different levels to travel through while evolving your little Spore.
The one thing that is really different with the game play over the previous Spore game is that ability to either fight or socialize. This can change the way the game progresses and how your creature evolves.
In other news, I’m also pleased to know that a new Simpsons game will be made available for the iPhone. Good times to be had indeed, can’t wait!
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