The factories that process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all get very ill, to be blunt. Ensuring that usually ent
Few spaces have grown hotter in the past year than the creator economy has, but for all of the new tools available to those starting a podcast, newsletter or storefront, most players have been more fo
<a href="http://apps.facebook.com/sporeislands"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/sporeislands-215x87.png" width="215" height="87" /></a>Electronic Arts has brought its very po
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sporemovie.jpg" />Here's the latest movie based on a video game that's sure to be horrendous: <i>Spore</i> will be turned into a movie, l
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/media.jpg" alt="media" title="media" width="500" height="372" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-67450" />Remember when we were all ex
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Not only are EA games going to be released on Steam henceforth—in and of itself a big deal—but the games will be <a H
Poor, wretched EA. First they have to make 600 staff walk the plank, and now they’re being sued all over the place. There are a lot of hackles raised by SecuROM’s secondary effects, like d
Conan O’Brien You’re going to get mad and throw the joystick panel. It’s going to rap around and go…It’s going to be the end of you. Harry Connick, Jr. Did you just say
Will Wright expressed some regret that Spore turned out to be less simulation than toybox. His original vision was less cutesy and more scientifically accurate (it’s been accused of covertly app
Will Wright, the brains behind Spore, Civilization and The Sims, finally spoke his mind yesterday about the now infamous Spore-DRM brouhaha. It’s a strange reaction, I think. It [the DRM] was so
It’s hard to exaggerate just how much EA’s CEO, John Riccitiello, misses the point here. I personally don’t like DRM. It interrupts the user experience. We would like to get around t
As visionary as Will Wright is, I think Spore has been compromised by his commercial sensibilities — or those of Maxis’ marketers. An interesting article in this month’s Seed suggest
Plenty of people have downloaded Spore using BitTorrent, but EA doesn’t seem too concerned. Because on Earth 2, where EA is apparently based, people downloading torrents of the game doesn’
Spore! StarCraft! Korea! It’s a triforce of fun! As you might have already guessed by glancing at that photo, some enterprising folks have re-created vehicles from the hit game StarCraft in Spor
And now Electronic Arts has a class action lawsuit on its hands. Hell hath no fury like Spore fans scorned. The publisher is accused of violating two laws relating to the game’s DRM. The suit cl
In light of thousands upon thousands of irate DRM-hating gamers, Electronic Arts has announced that it’ll be issuing a patch to the game that’ll allow people to de-authorize certain computers. Cur
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/binary_koala/2842003002/"><img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/spore-screen.jpg" alt="" title="spore-screen" /></a>If we can learn anything
I’m starting to think this anti-Spore site is merely a prank. It’s worded too perfectly to be On The Real™. Right, so even though Spore has been favorably reviewed (despite the DRM upro
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if your MacBook is equipped with an Intel GMA 950 graphics chipset then you’re SOL. If you’re unsure then go to “About This Mac” and trickle down to the
How about that? It seems that people don’t like DRM. The highly-anticipated “Spore” has been released to a mob of angry customers, thanks to digital rights management that basically limits the g
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