Swedish site Game Reactor has footage up of some of the various stages of Spore.
Here’s the creature stage, the tribal stage and the civilization stage. The video for the space travel stage goes up tomorrow.
It looks a little overly simple to me, but still more game-like than what I was expecting. Will Wright’s previous project, The Sims 2, succeeded wildly without having any real goals or competition. It’s more of a dollhouse simulator than anything else.
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Persona 3 is a great game and all, but there’s room for expansion here. As long as I’m summoning creatures of myth and imagination out of the collective unconcious to serve as my personal bodyguards, there’s a few I want to be able to pick from.
Coyote – Coyote takes many roles, but he’s best known as a trickster. This essential archetype seems underrepresented in Persona 3, so you might as well start with the best.
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Like the headline says, EA’s income from direct digital distribution was $90 million this quarter.
Now, we’re talking about hundreds of millions in gross revenue, so they’re not cutting and running from retail yet. But each dollar made over the EA Store is one that goes directly to the company without any going towards manufacturing costs, shipping and distribution or a retail discount. Obviously that would be highly appealing for a company.
I mentioned before I found the EA store wanting, but as a consumer I’m totally on board with digital distribution. What sense does it make for me to go to a store, buy a DVD-ROM, take it home, copy the game in its entirety to my computer and never use the physical media again?
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It’s so very hard to be modest.
Especially when you’re continually right. Apparently, the boys out at Studio Briefing, one of my personal favorite news sources, caught up to the fact that Panasonic TVs, especially big-screen digital television sets, were selling like crack in rehab in the midst of some of the worst economic conditions in the last ten years.
Suggesting that the recession is no obstacle to home theater enthusiasts, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes consumer-electronics items under the Panasonic label, reported today (Tuesday) that its net income soared 86 percent in its first quarter, which ended on June 30. The company said that its profits hit $679 million, helped primarily by sales of big-screen digital television sets.
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So hey, it looks like there’s a teaser leaked for Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic, W. Everyone keeps warning that it’s likely to disappear soon, but it’s been up for a while, in various permutations. Some videos have been taken down, only to be replaced by others. This one seems to be working currently:
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