Archive for the General Games Category

Demo for Creative Pattern’s Building World “in two weeks”

by Jirnsum in General Games, Seen on the Forums

Jul 11

SIMphoni member Whirly, who is studio manager for French game developer Creative Patterns, today announced in our forums that we will be able to sample their construction simulation “Building World“. He said: “normally in two weeks the demo of the game will be out”. We had some lively discussion in our forums on this simulation, [...]

Stern Interviews Will Wright

by Lain in General Games, Spore

Jul 3

Last Friday the German magazine Stern published an interview with game developer Will Wright (in German). [Editor's update: Forum member Jirnsum has translated the article to English.] Apart from the standard Spore talk a few interesting points are made about what the custom content might mean for sequels to games as the Sims and Spore. [...]

EA Splits Into Four Groups

by Jirnsum in General Games, SimCity Societies, Spore

Jun 19

According to Gameworld Network, Electronic Arts, the leviathan that once gobbled up Maxis, has decided to split into four groups. Their names will be: EA Games, EA Sports, The Sims, and EA Casual Entertainment. According to GWN: “EA Games will be developing games such as Spore, Need for Speed, and Command and Conquer. EA Casual [...]