The worldwide release day of Spore will come to an end in a little under 6 hours. So: did you get the game? What are your initial reactions? Were there nice suprises in the game that you’d like to share? Want to ask for help on certain aspects? What would you still like to see [...]
Archive for the Spore Category
Sep
8
The server problems that have plagued the release of Spore in Europe appear to have been fixed. After EA requested information on the nature of the bugs yesterday it only took an additional couple of hours to get the problems solved. Simphoni members in Europe who already have the game have reported they are now able to [...]
EA has requested all our help in solving the issues that are currently preventing people from playing Spore online. The following was posted on the official Spore forums: The team working on this has asked for some more information. Specifically those of you seeing this error message: “You do not have the proper spore.com privileges [...]
Sep
5
Today’s comic is the last in the series of comics we’ve been releasing until the release of Spore. We hope you’ve been enjoying them, and maybe we’ll see a new series when the countdown to the inevitable expansion pack begins…
Sep
4
With the release of Spore in Europe and Australia apparently the earlier embargo on reviews has been lifted. It will be kind of hard to keep up with them here on the frontpage (hey: we have a game to play ), so we’re putting links to them in a special Spore Reviews Thread. If you [...]
Sep
4
Just shelled out a whole lotta money for Spore? Finished installation succesfully? Thinking of trying the game? It may very well be that you run into a classical example of “Computer says no“. We all know that Spore needs to be online to experience the full features the game promises. We all assumed EA would [...]
It looks like our member oppie is the first to get his hands on Spore: I bought Spore at a local shop yesterday (apparently they didn’t know that the release date was still a few days away). They only had the standard edition, but I could not resist the temptation of getting it early. Rumours [...]
This Saturday night in North America, while you are pacing the floor in anticipation of Spore’s release on Sunday knowing our European friends are already playing it, you can watch a two-hour-long documentary special on The Discovery Channel television network, entitled, “The Future Is Wild and the Making Of Spore“. It will play twice on [...]
SIMphoni benefited from the Spore Community Day at Maxis in Emoryville, California in a big way! On Friday August 22, Rexer joined a few other web sites in previewing Spore, the biggest game release of 2008. That weekend, daily SIMphoni visitors spiked from around 220 to over 900! Many of those visitors have stayed with [...]
Aug
29
This video was recorded by Rex Stanfield (Rexer) of Simphoni at Maxis Studios in Emeryvile, California on Friday, August 22, 2008. As part of Spore Community Day, representatives of around a dozen fan sites were given the hands-on oppurtunity to play Spore. Afterward, a panel of key Maxis developers offered a question and answer session. [...]
