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EA’s results of their 3rd quarter fiscal year 2010 is in! The bad news? They lost more money (like we didn’t see that coming). The good news? We’ll be seeing new games in the MySims, Sims 3 and Spore franchise announced soon, with a timeframe to be released anywhere between now to March of 2011.
We already are aware that The Sims 3 will be hitting consoles and handhelds…but we are still left wondering for which ones. The new MySims game they mentioned is probably ‘MySims Sky Heroes’ that was trademarked last week. The Sims 3 has a new expansion coming out for PC – but no information for that. Oh, and Spore will be having two titles – one for PC and the other for consoles coming out as well, so long live Spore! Hopefully the PC one isn’t a spinoff but I have a feeling it’ll be Spore Creature Keeper… 2010 is shaping up to be a pretty good year for Sim/Spore fans… Can’t wait until we start getting actual news to report on!
All 3 EA games – The Sims 3, World Adventures and Spore fell from their normal positions in the UK charts. At first I was wondering where was The Sims 3 Design & Hi-Tech Stuff…then I realized it was only out for a day in the UK, so that is understandable. Hopefully next week will provide better results. It doesn’t help when there are new games bumping them down as well
I was a little bit worried about where Spore stood as a franchise. The main Spore game has been very, very quite…I mean the last we heard about any news was from last June/July when Spore Galactic Adventures came out. Other than that, it has been nothing but spin-offs. However, Lucy Bradshaw, head of Maxis Studios tells fans not to worry – there will be more Spore in the future:
“Spore” as a franchise won’t be going away anytime soon, either. Lucy Bradshaw, VP and GM of Maxis, says “we are continuing to invest in ‘Spore,’ but have not announced our next project at this point.”
I hope the upcoming Spore games will be another expansion…I know we still have Spore Creature Keeper stand-alone spinoff to look forward to…but the main Spore game still needs to see the flora editor, the 360 degree picture rotation feature and of course, an aquatic stage!
I love Pie! But in this case, we are talking about the numerical pi. You know the one that never ends – 3.14159265358979323846264 33832795028841971693993751058 20974944592307816406286208998 62803482534211706798214808651 32823066470938446095505822317 25359408128481117450284102701 93852110555964462294895493038 19644288109756659334461284756 48233786783165271201909145648 56692346038610454326648213393 60726024914127372458700660631 55817488152092096282925409171 53643678925903600113305305488 20466521384146951941511609 and so on…
Pi day is fast approaching, March 14th to be exact! The Spore team would like for you to celebrate the love by sharing a Pi creation of your own. Here are the details from MaxisCactus. Good luck and have fun!
Challenge Details
Give some irrational love to the number pi. Pi day is coming on March 14th, and to celebrate, we want you to help us pay homage to the wonderful constant.
Make a pi related creation (or cook up an exquisite pie in the editor) in the Pi Day Challenge and you may be featured on 3/14!
A chance to be featured on Spore.com! We’re going to choose a few of the top voted creations to share the glory here.
We’ll post our favorite submissions here, then YOU get to vote for which one is your top pick! The winner(s) may be featured if they meet our criteria for featured creations
Creation must not have any parent authored by a different creator
Creation must not have any offensive creation in its lineage (any parent or child creations)
Creation must not have any links or references to other sites in the submission’s tags, name, or description
Submissions that do not meet the above criteria will not be considered for the poll
Rules:
Your creation must be related to pi (or pie )
Your creation may be made in any editor, including the adventure editor
To submit a creation, just publish and tag it with: mcpichallenge
You can submit as many creations as you’d like
All submissions must be in by 11:00am PDT Mar 9, 2010
Optional: Post screenshots or YouTube movies of your creation on the forum
A portion from a review for Spore Creatures by Slide2Play:
The levels have cute names, like Lumpet Cove and Beetle Basin, and the graphics and animation are excellent. The problem is that there’s not much to do beyond eating and evolving. Sure, each level tracks how many of the available bugs you’ve consumed, and you’ll come upon herds of animals that you can decide to fight or befriend, but once you’ve cleared a few stages you’ll have seen most of what this game has to offer.
If nothing else, Spore Creatures offers an easy, user-friendly introduction to RPG elements. Playing this will acquaint young gamers with navigating menus and choosing upgrade paths. However, anyone who has played through a Final Fantasy or Fallout won’t find anything new or compelling here.
Mass Effect 2 is the new ‘hotness’ in the gaming world, which explains why it knocked The Sims 3 and World Adventures out of their normal spots. That’s okay though…unlike The Sims games, Mass Effect 2 will not hold its spot for long!
Does anyone live in New York and want to catch a presentation from Will Wright? Tickets are available – free of charge – for his discussion “Why Games are Good for Learning” at the New York University on February 17, 2010. His hour long presentation will end up covering The Sims, Spore, SimCity and possibly what he is currently working on at his Stupid Fun Club company. You can RSVP tickets at tickets@g4li.org. For those of us that cannot make it, I believe there will be a live webstream available. I’ll try to find out more information when the event gets closer.
Because of just flat out boring and repetitive gameplay, it appears that the Spore franchise and EA may have some evolving to do before they carry on this franchise’s name. It was cute the first time, but it turned into something just oh so bleeeeeh. For $6.99, “Spore: Creatures” is a worse choice than week old leftovers.
I don’t think it’s boring – but then again I’m a boring person in real life, so it’s possible that it could be to others. But I do agree on the price…for a reskinned version of Spore Origins, I think it should of been priced at $4.99 instead.
That’s the only iPad joke you’re going to get from me. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few hours, the biggest topic of the day is Apple’s new iPhone XL iPad, their revolutionary tablet designed for media and entertainment in mind. By looking at the various photos and information, I cannot see a justified reason why this really exists. It looks beautiful and I do kind of see myself wanting one…I just don’t have a reason good enough to warrant owning it. Have to say that the prices aren’t that bad… $499 for the 16GB, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB. 3G models are an additional $130.
Now let’s get to the important part – gaming. EA stepped up and introduced a new ‘Need for Speed’ game, which for only 2 weeks, looks quite nice. No Sims/Spore related games were discussed but they did mention that the games from the iPod Touch will work with the iPad – the resolution may be distorted a little bit but other then that things are dandy. Apparently companies can update their games to make them compatible with the iPad, so that will solve that problem. Kotaku gave it a test drive and reports that games that use menus (like The Sims 3) or that uses the tilting movement (Spore Origins) plays very nicely:
The games that were successful were ones that relied simply on touching and tilting, not a complex combination of both. PopCap’s gem matching casual hit Bejeweled 2 was, unsurprisingly, easy to play with its simple taps and small swipes. Super Monkey Ball, admittedly not the easiest game to control via accelerometer anyway, worked as well as it does on the iPhone platform.
I was less successful with Tetris, which I played with the iPad resting flat on a table, tapping and swiping tetrominoes down screen. The iPad’s rounded posterior reduced some of the reliability of touchscreen control
Need For Speed: Shift was one of the more positive control experiences, as it relies only on tilting and braking with a touchscreen press. EA’s other offering, The Sims 3, was also completely playable, relying less on twitch gameplay and more on menu based controls to play.
The biggest downfall in my opinion with the iPad is the fact that after 2+ years, Apple has yet to give a damn about supporting flash on the phone. Hello! What about Hulu? Flash based websites? You know how pathetic it looks for not getting around to supporting it? If a $299 netbook can do it then so can you, Steve Jobs.
Eh, guess I’ll wait a few years until they are on the 4G setup and slap on a camera for video conferencing. In the meantime I’ll stick with my iPad Nano aka the iPhone.
I’m a fan of the Spore games and have played others on both the iPhone and Nintendo DS. After spending a couple of hours with Spore Creatures, I enjoyed navigating the terrain and the challenge of helping my creature evolve. I did find the gameplay repetitive and a bit frustrating at times as your creature can get stuck roaming around in circles looking for food or avoiding the bad guys. But overall, Spore Creatures offers a very cool, colorful environment–one that I’ll definitely be exploring further.
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