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My humanoid Spore creature. I love the Creature Creator, and am DYING for the full game!
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Join Me on the Sporepedia
Making spore creatures is ridiculous amounts of fun. It’s my understanding that creatures from the community will be populating other users’ universes, which begs the question, “how?” Coming from the universe of the Sims, I’m very picky about what kind of world I create. I don’t want just any critter popping in there at any time. I can has control?
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Video Game Wedding Placecards
It would appear that some talented Photoshopper has created a ton of adorable WoW and other video game inspired wedding table assignments. (What, no Grand Theft Auto? Apparently Doom was family friendly enough…) Props for the creativity and execution, though I must use this opportunity to self-reference my own place card setup, where each table was dedicated to a different modern or contemporary artist. Badass.
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A WoWrd of WoWarning
Res up from 2004, perpetual fave
If I’m not playing, you’re not playing. Just a reminder.
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EA Locks Down Spore for US Users
My husband and I have been anxiously awaiting the Spore release for … oh … three years now. We downloaded the Creature Creator and each made some weird-ass creatures and uploaded them to the Sporepedia to share. It was crafty marketing to begin with… drum up some hype, charge people $10 for the Creator, and then use their creatures to populate the game world… Still, it was with baited breath that we pre-loaded the full game and awaited the release time on Sunday.
Unfortunately, once I had logged in and begun to play, he encountered a screen asking for a product key. I hadn’t ever been asked for product validation. After some digging online, he found out he can only play the game offline unless we buy two separate versions of the software. Apparently we’re not the only ones to come to this outrageous realization.
Are you kidding me? You mean if (this is a big if, people) I had two kids, and they each wanted to play, we’d have to buy two copies? And if the whole family wanted to play, we’d need umpteen accounts at $50 a pop? As it is, we pay separately for our World of Warcraft accounts. I understand that, at least in theory. But for a non MMORPG game to pull this is ludacrious.
While I’ve read (see link above) that the policy in the EU is different, upon browsing the EA UK site, I find the same EULA. Fix it, EA!
<end rant>
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Resistance is Growing
via The Escapist
UPDATE: After the initial frustration, my husband was on the phone with EA customer support for a good hour with a sales guy who was “baffled.” Finally he got passed up the chain and stonewalled on the one-game-copy = one-online-account issue. This is (pardon my language) fucking retarded.
Also, The Consumerist weighs in.
My full Spore review is in the works, pending my completion of the Space Age. The whole experience is tainted by this licensing issue, though, which is basically a huge fisting for everyone that shared their enthusiasm for the game early on.
My apologies to those of you that clicked on the last link.
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Zero Punctuation reviews Spore.
This says everything I want to say, but with animation, too!
The review is 4 minutes. The rest of the video is a trailer for Warhammer Online, which, while looking badass, would be like cheating on my WoW characters. If they don’t ever get around to upgrading the graphics though….
Thanks to Torrefaction for sending this one my way.
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A Patch? Really??
Warhammer Online was released to the general public yesterday. I, uh, started playing yesterday. (Actually, it was complete coincidence, but I digress.) Besides installing the 10GB base game, I went through a good 45 mins of “patching” a game that had just come out of beta yesterday. Today, I go to boot up for a night of epic Friday gameplay and BAM - Patching! WTF, peeps?!
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The European PS3 ads are way cooler than the US ones.
(Check out my favorite.)That said, I don’t really know what the hell they’re going for here. My best hope is that it’s calling out the the assumption that the gnome (or mech, etc.) pwning you may be may not be a dude in his mom’s basement, but rather may be a totally hot chick that loves fragging n00bs. i.e. Gaming is an equal opportunity venture.
Of course, what they’ve created also evokes something like “inside all fat dudes there’s a skinny girl screaming to get out” or “be careful who you private message with, it’s probably not a lithe model chick,” or even, “gamer chicks are awesome … when they’re super-hot and emotionless.” Well, I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
via PS3 Fanboy
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I was going to post something about the best videogames from the 80s, and how I played almost all of them but had special love for Reader Rabbit. This is what Google Image Search returned.
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Changes to the PlayStation TOS
I got a little email this morning letting me know of “a few updates” to the Sony Terms of Service agreement that governs my PS3. Turns out the changes are in red, and that makes the TOS look like it just went through a carwash of blood.
Most of it sounds like they’re gearing up for the enhanced online community aspects in the pipeline and reminding kids that there may be porn, but they shouldn’t look at it. Also, Sony may record any of your communications or activities and may release them to the “authorities” at will. Yay!
I found this the most interesting new passage, though:
From time to time, it may become necessary for SCEA to provide certain content to you to ensure that PSN and content offered through PSN, your PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system or other SCEA-authorized hardware is functioning properly in accordance with SCEA guidelines. Some content may be provided automatically without notice when you sign into PSN. Such content may include automatic updates or upgrades which may change your current operating system, cause a loss of data or content or cause a loss of functionalities or utilities.
Sounds to me like they’re laying the groundwork to flash any OS’s that have … say … cracks for BluRay discs or other “non-standard” software. Oh, and in the event that any of these “updates” provided “automatically and without notice” completely brick your system, it’ll be your fault.
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
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