Following news that Mass Effect will now no longer use SecuRom’s automatic ten-day authentication system, EA’s confirmed that Spore’s to ditch the unpopular measure as well. Press release after the link. Good work for actually listening to people, EA.
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The plan was to have a Spore Creature Creator Demo, containing about 25 percent of the full library of creature pieces parts, going out to the public around June 17...Well, a file purporting to be that demo is on Megaupload as we speak. Now, 191 MB is a huge file just to be bogus malware, but still, we assume no responsibility if this isn't what it says it is or turns out to be something worse. (It's real)
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The New Yorker's Will Wright profile
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The Good Intuitive and comprehensive customization tools Oozes charm at every turn Impressively broad scope Great audio and art design. The Bad Individual gameplay elements are extremely simple Early stages aren't very engaging.
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"And for all their mighty purpose, the first four phases of the game don't always play brilliantly, and they're too fleeting. The Creature Creator doesn't let you make exactly the creature you want because your survival depends on parts that spoil the look. But the final game is proof that it was all worth it: you're all one big Designer."
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Two German game magazines have released early reviews of EA's long-anticipated Spore, and they're a bit disappointed with what they see.
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Spore will be released here for PC on 5th September 2008 and in the US two days later on 7th September, EA has confirmed to Eurogamer. Europe first! Woo! EA's since confirmed that Mac, DS and mobile versions will both arrive on that date too. "We're in our final stages of testing and polish with Spore, and the team at Maxis can't wait to see the cosmos of content created by the community later this year," Will Wright said in the obligatory release quote.
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Ah, Spore. When the hell are you going to come out and play? Will Wright and his team have been working on it for eons. That's okay, because, hey, we'd rather have it done than half-done. But Electronic Arts says it's planned for "before the holidays" and that the company is "bullish."
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"It certainly wouldn't be a huge surprise, but analyst Mike Hickey is now saying it's likely that the much anticipated Spore won't debut until Fall/Winter of this year."
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TorrentFreak put up a list of the top 10 games copied and shared over BitTorrent for the year 2008, and Spore, quite unsurprisingly, leads them all by a country mile. Naturally, the hard feelings and retaliation over its DRM inclusion helped boost the number of torrents for this game, already downloaded half a million times by 10 days after its September release, and 1.7 million times as of now.
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