Spore Is EA's New Ace

BusinessWeek reports on EA's Next Big Thing. From the article: "EA is stumbling, and a big part of its time-tested strategy is about to change. The company hopes that its next mega-franchise will revolve not around a football star, a boy wizard, or a dashing British spy, but...a microbe. The game is called Spore. Developed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, it lets players design an invertebrate in its primordial stages and then guide its evolution until the creature's offspring develop into a thriving civilization with cities, religion, and spaceships. EA's ambitious goal is to create more such innovative, internally developed games while lessening the company's dependence on professional sports and Hollywood movie franchises."

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[G)-(ostly]

How long until the lunatic right fringe elements start screaming over the subject matter, or until Jack Thompson files a (doomed to fail) lawsuit on the grounds that it dehumanizes human life and makes kids into killers who think their victims are nothing more than petri-dish bug projects?

A creature evolves and then forms a relgion!

[fak3r]

I love the dicotamy of evolution leading to religion! That's gotta rub a ton of religious folks the wrong way, but file me into the camp that says this is EXACTLY how it happened in the real world. Kudos to EA!