Tag archive: Spore

When Electronic Arts launched Spore, the company promised to turn the creature-evolving title into a franchise. Now the company is starting to expand Spore's culture, announcing it is working on a darker, sci-fi action-based RPG that will have players taking on the roles of mutated critters and have them set out across the galaxy to try to save everything from, well, other mutated critters. The new game will be called Darkspore and is… Read More

Electronic Arts has a hit on its hands with the creator-creation and evolution game Spore, but the company has certainly run afoul of many of its users through a SecuROM authorization scheme that requires users to authorize individual computers and gaming sessions in order to play the game. Disgruntled users launched a class action suit against EA over the DRM scheme and EA raised the number of computers on which users may install Spore to… Read More

Electronic Arts only kicked Spore out the door at the beginning of September, but the company is already announcing add-ons and an expansion pack for the popular game. The Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack will be available as early as November 18, and will add more than 100 new creature-building components to the game in two divergent styles—you guessed it, “creepy” and “cute.” “Creepy” will… Read More

Ever since EA's Spore landed at retailers, some gamers have been chafing at the limits of DRM technology included with the game. The most common complaint was that the game's DRM technology only permitted Spore to be installed on three computers, and provided no way to de-authorize installations to enable another. So, if you installed Spore on a notebook and that notebook was lost or stolen, one of your permitted Spore… Read More

Game maker Electronic Arts expected big things from its new release, Spore. And it got them, but it wasn’t the cries of delight. Instead there were growls of complaint when purchasers realized they could only register the game on three computers, with no way to de-authorize in installation to allow for another, and each copy only allowed for one player with one screen name to use it. EA, it seems, has been listening to the… Read More

Electronic Arts and Maxis have announced that the much-anticipated video game Spore has gone gold and will be available at North American and Asia Pacific retailers September 7—and European retailers will get a jump on things, with the game going on sale September 5. From the creators of games like The Sims,Spore essentially puts players in charge of the development and evolution of their own custom critters: players can create their… Read More

The release of Electronic Arts’ highly anticipated Spore may still be months away, but the company got the hype wheel turning early on Tuesday with the release of Spore Creature Creator. Essentially the first part of the game, Creator will allow players to tweak and customize creatures usable in the full game in the dead time before it launches. After playing around with different options for their creatures, players can take them on… Read More