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Popular Science article on Spore
There is an absolutely fantastic article about Spore over at Popular Science. Give it a read, it’ll do you good!
Will Wright receieves Vangard award from PGA
The Producers Guild of America has announced that Will Wright will be given the Vanguard award for his work with The Sims, Sim City, and Spore. This is a giant step forward for the video game industry signaling the first award ever given to a video game artist by the PGA.
Will Wright & WSJ
Will Wright visits the Wall Street Journal to show off Spore. [video link]
Will Wright & Colbert
Steven Colbert interviews the inventor of the “most detailed video game of blasphemy ever seen.” (aka Will Wright). Check it out on YouTube
Om Malik looks at Spore
Om Malik (aka GigaOM) recently took a few minutes to ask the question: But will Spore sell?. Of course it will sell — but the question at hand is how much will it sell? And will it become the next Sims franchise?
Profile of Will Wright in The New Yorker
The new issue of The New Yorker has a great profile of Will Wright in it.
The Long Zoom
The Long Zoom in which Will Wright is interviewed. They talk a lot about how future generations can use Spore to better learn science and the scale of our universe.
4 new gameplay videos
Check it out. EA has released 4 new gameplay videos (direct feed): Space Conflict, Oribital, Tribal Instincts & Creature Editor.
Next-Gen previews Spore
The fellows over at Next-Gen got the chance to preview Spore. Go check out their write up.
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Countdown to Spore
Spore is one of the most epic games to ever hit the market. At GDC '05 we saw our first glimpse of Spore and have been eagerly waiting in anticipation since. The current estimated actual release date is September 7, 2008.
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