Tag: SPORE

We've been wondering what Will Wright, creator of 'Sim City,' 'The Sims' and 'Spore,' would do once he left Maxis, the company he helped turn into a gaming powerhouse. Apparently one of the "secret projects" Wright mentioned at GDC earlier this month will have the much-lauded developer shifting to a new medium: television. Wright developed the idea with Albie Hecht, former president of Spike TV ...

Thanks to video games, franchises, reboots, and TV shows, Hollywood executives never need to have an original idea again. So take an extremely original idea from the creator of 'Sims' and turn it into a movie with cute, super star-voiced characters and attach a big director and, bam, easy Hollywood bucks. Will Wrights' 'Spore', an evolution, RPG-type game where decisions made as an amoeba affect ...

EA's 'Spore,' the latest from 'Sims' creator Will Wright, was hailed by critics as being revolutionary when it was announced -- back in 2005. Since then, it's been delayed and delayed some more, but somehow the hype just continued to grow and grow. The game is now released on the PC and Mac platforms, receiving some mediocre scores from game reviewers who can't quite find a point to it all. More ...