<![CDATA[io9: Maxis]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Maxis]]> http://io9.com/tag/maxis http://io9.com/tag/maxis <![CDATA[Beam Down With New Space-Opera-Themed Spore Galactic Adventures Trailer]]> This new 1950s-style trailer for Spore Galactic Adventures is heavy on the space-operatic bombast... and it's getting me intrigued. Especially the part about turning giant monsters into ginormous chaos. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5239547&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cool and Crap Awards of the Week]]> At least two things happened last week in the worlds of science fiction and science. One was cool and the other was crap. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018447&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Spore's Creature Creator Lets You Seed the Galaxy with Life]]> Spore, the upcoming 6+-years-in-the-making project from Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims, and Sim everything else) is releasing its fabulous alien species design tool, the Creator Creator today as a free download. Spore is Sim-Rise-of-Intelligent-Life-In-The-Galaxy, and it is a fountain of scifi awesomeness. I've followed Spore’s development for a long time, and feel licensed to talk about what I’ve seen and speculate irresponsibly about what I haven’t. (I should disclose at this point that periodically I work as a freelance game designer for Electronic Arts, which owns Maxis, which makes Spore.) More »
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