ih8evilstuff.livejournal.com - 12/2/2008
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To:gaben@valvesoftware.com Subject:Concern about EA's involvement Dear Mr. Newell, Let me start off by thanking you for all the work you and your company have done on your games, including Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead. I enjoy these games very much and look forward to pretty much anything ...
torrentfreak.com - 12/6/2008
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torrentfreak.com —
As 2008 is slowly moving toward its end,
we start taking a look at the most pirated...
titles in various categories. First up are games. As expected, Spore is by far the most downloaded game on BitTorrent, in part thanks to the DRM that came with the ...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008
fidgit.com - 12/10/2008
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fidgit.com —
Many of the following ten games are great.
A few came close to being on my top...
ten list (to be posted tomorrow). I would call a couple of them works of genius. But I think they're the most overrated...
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10 most overrated games of 2008
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Newell To Fan - DRM Strategies Are Dumb [Drm]
Kotaku —
... of games industry names who are publicly unimpressed with Digital Rights Management. In an email to a fan who had contacted Valve about fears that they would be using SecuROM to lock down Left 4 Dead, Newell replied, "As far as DRM goes, most DRM strategies are just dumb. The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value [...] not by decreasing the value of a product. We really really discourage other developers and publishes from using the broken DRM offerings, and in general there is a groundswell to abandon those approaches." ...
Shocker: Valve's Gabe Newell says most DRM is 'dumb'
Joystiq —
... Not everyone knows this but, here at Joystiq we're not just a gaming blog - bringing you all the latest, breaking news on stuff like Mario boxer shorts - we're also a world-class PC gaming consultancy. Yup. PC gaming publishers come to us and say, "Joystiq, how do we - ...
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Bring Your Spore Creature Into the Real World
gearlog.com 12/19/2008 —
Spore fans: We know you must be attached to your Spore avatar--after all, you've raised it from a single cell. You can now have a physical model of your beloved Spore character.
Maxis, an Electronic Arts studio, and Z Corporation announced ...
EA's Spore De-Authorization Tool goes live
offworld.com 12/18/2008 — sporedeauthorize.jpg Putting to rest at least part of the firestorm that arose from the SecuROM protection of Spore , Electronic Arts has released a standalone tool (currently for PCs only) to de-authorize machines, iTunes style, so players can manage ...
Spore for PC - Spore PC Game - Spore Computer Game
gamespot.com 12/22/2008 — Add Game Discuss Game Tag Review It Spore merges multiple run-of-the-mill building blocks into a big, entertaining game. Read the Review Watch the Review Images See All Images Spore Image 1 Spore Image 2 Spore Image 3 Spore Image 4 Game Guide Spore ...
New Spore Patch Available For Mac
insidemacgames.com 11/7/2008 — November 5, 2008 6:00 AM EA and Maxis have released a new patch for the Mac version of Spore . The patch includes fixes for bugs reported by players, gameplay tuning, the option to select multiple items for deleting or banning in the Sporepedia, and ...
Spore Galactic Adventures Confirmed
insidemacgames.com 1/13/2009 — January 13, 2009 6:00 AM Electronic Arts has confirmed work on Galactic Adventures , an upcoming expansion for Will Wright's Spore . The expansion, which will likely focus on the final phase of the game, will be one in a planned line of products in ...
Spore™ Sculptor - Home Page
sporesculptor.com 12/18/2008 — Spore elements © 2008 Electronic Arts Inc. EA, the EA logo, Maxis and Spore are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All rights reserved. Z Corporation 1995-2008. All rights reserved. Z ...
EA details Spore's 2009 PC, Wii, DS expansions
offworld.com 1/23/2009 — sporeadventures.jpg EA has laid out four different ways it plans to expand its Spore platform this year (and co-opted LittleBigPlanet 's 'create, play, share' mantra in so doing) with two new PC games and a new Wii and DS game announced that will let ...
Sporesculptor opens for 3D printed Spore creatures
offworld.com 12/19/2008 — sporefig.jpg Via press release: Electronic Arts and Z Corporation have just announced the opening of Sporesculptor to offer custom 3D printed figures of your Spore creations, utilizing the same technology as Z Corp's ' Bandmates ' figurines for ...
Valve: Left 4 Dead DLC to be available for free
offworld.com 2/12/2009 — l4dgroupportrait.jpg Heading off any backlash that Left 4 Dead 's upcoming DLC might have under-delivered with a promise to "simply" unlock the two remaining campaigns that aren't currently playable in Versus mode (alongside it's still not quite ...
GameStop Cyber Monday Video Game Sale launched —
I4U News 12/1/2008
GameStop launched their Cyber Monday video game deals including some hot deals like Buy Spore PC for $19.99 and get Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack free.
Other video game deals include $10 Off Shaun White Snowboarding for Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, ...
Playing Games: Left 4 Dead —
SFGate: Technology 12/2/2008
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)Left 4 Dead: Horror survival first-person shooter. Developer: Valve Software. Publisher: Valve Software/Electronic Arts. ($59.99 for Xbox 360. $49.99 for PC. ESRB rating: Mature. Many of us have overcome such common fears as ...
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