Oregon Trail Now Available for Mobile Phones

Mobile games developer Gameloft has released its updated version of The Oregon Trail. The game costs $4 (or more, depending on your carrier) and introduces several new gameplay elements to the elementary school classic.

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Of vast intellect: hands on with Spore Creature Creator

Playing with Spore's Creature Creator this weekend was a little surreal. We've seen the feature demonstrated many times before, but actually getting some quality time to play at home was a welcome experience. Maxis and EA arranged for a variety of press and celebrities to take the creator for a spin this weekend, and we got our chance to submit a c

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Unreal Tournament 3: Six Months On

Earlier this month, Epic Games teased Xbox 360 owners with some screenshots of the upcoming port of Unreal Tournament III. They failed to summon any interest. It's extremely unusual for such an event to occur. If we take Epic's track record, (let alone the success of the Unreal Tournament series), their games have been at the forefront of Shooters.

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What Happens to MMO Players When Their MMO Worlds Shut Down?

Each represents the birth of a world where something new and never-before seen will emerge. Whether brilliant and creative or ridiculous and deeply flawed, each will be, in its own way, a miracle of creation.Not every one of these new worlds can survive. The ecosystem supporting our online worlds is not infinite. Sometimes, the world has to die.

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Spore to remove SecuROM!

"Despite some hand-wringing by fans, EA today announced that their hugely anticipated Will Wright game Spore will not make use of SecuROM's 10-day periodic re-authentication and instead use a modified version to require online authentication."Hurray!

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Blizzard Opens Digital Download Store

Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has begun offering direct downloads of select PC titles via a new portion of its online store.Furthermore, owners of certain Blizzard efforts can now register their CD keys on the site to add the titles to their Blizzard Account and download them for free at any time.

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